Posted: 3/30/2011 10:45:48 AM EDT
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I'm having trouble with one of my harddrives.
I have two 750gb SATA western digital drives that I've had for about 3 years. My primary drive is running fine, my other drive that I use exclusively for media is running incredibly slow. I ran a benchmark and it's average transfer rate was about 1mb/s. It ran fine for years until a couple days ago. Ran all my virus scans and malwarebytes, nothing came up. Vista 64 bit is my OS. |
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You do have backups, right? some of it, I did the math earlier it would take a week to transfer all the data off it at it's current rate. Well start now and hope that it finishes before it shits out. Yep... It's best to have backups in triplicate. Hard drives fail a lot. |
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Quoted: Quoted: is it fragmented? have you ran chkdsk? getting SMART warnings? funny noises? ran all the usual, defrag, error checkers and the like, no warnings, no clicks of death. Personally I would check it with SeaTools. Following that, if you are unable to get your data off to someplace safe you can try SpinRite (let the eye rolling begin  ) |
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You do have backups, right? some of it, I did the math earlier it would take a week to transfer all the data off it at it's current rate. Well start now and hope that it finishes before it shits out. Yep... It's best to have backups in triplicate. Hard drives fail a lot. I will have to unhook it when I get home till I get another drive, not enough room on my primary to fit everything. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You do have backups, right? some of it, I did the math earlier it would take a week to transfer all the data off it at it's current rate. Well start now and hope that it finishes before it shits out. Yep... It's best to have backups in triplicate. Hard drives fail a lot. I will have to unhook it when I get home till I get another drive, not enough room on my primary to fit everything. Better to store it safely than run it until you have a proper offload drive. |
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