Hard drive Failure

[Tamesh16]

My Laptop Came with a 500 gb Hard drive with the Os and everything. I have been using my laptop fairly often , lets say 12 hours a day recently (probably more ) because i am on break from college ofc, However i wanted to back up my Os on a hard drive and i noticed some severe lack in transfer speeds . i didnt think much of it first but using HD tune 2.55 i saw that almost 70% of my drive is transferring at speeds around 1.5 mb/s. Should i be worried about my Drive Failing , cause linus said decrease in performance usually means that the drive is going to die, And if it is going to die, can i just copy over my OS files to another drive and swap it out or, do i need cloning software? , and if i do which is the most recommended 

 

[Altecice]

No that's fine, laptop drives are very cheap and dont perform well unless its sequential read/writes. A better test would be to check your drives SMART status.

[Godlygamer23]

Use CrystalDiskInfo to check to see if the hard drive is going to potentially fail.

[Tieox]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Use CrystalDiskInfo to check to see if the hard drive is going to potentially fail.

Definitely do this as you said this is your primary drive and has a lot of your information on it. 

[MoonlightSylv]

Use CrystalDiskMark/Info.

 

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You stole Spwath's profile pic, shame on you!

 

[Tamesh16]

Thanks guys , but after another bench mark test , i saw significant improvement in performance