Well it has been a year and it looks like I am about to lose my hard drive for the second time. It does take an extremely long time for things to load so I guess that is my clue.
I ran the free PC Pitstop test and it flagged my C drive's extremely slow performance. It is a Maxtor Diamond Max 10, model 6B200M0 (200 GB) and I just put it in May/June 2005. I ran the Maxtor diagnostic test next and of course it said it was failing. I must admit I figured it would last longer than a year. I went through all the suggestions...the drive is defragged, eliminated unnecessary background programs and so on.
I also ran the HDDlife Pro and it says it's health status is ok (76%) and it's performance is excellent (76%)...so that's a bit different from the other tests.
For the final evaluation I ran HDTach which says the drive's read speed is a mere 3 MB (well below the bench marks). The external hard drive which I bought at the same time to back up my failing drive last year (Maxtor OneTouch II, 200 GB)...well it's read speed is 28.7 MB. Now I am not a computer tech so in reality this doesn't mean much to me, but I take it that it's slow and I need a faster drive.
So does anyone have some recommendations on hard drives so this doesn't have to be a yearly adventure for me?
My computer is a Dell PC, Intel Pentium 4
THANKS
I ran the free PC Pitstop test and it flagged my C drive's extremely slow performance. It is a Maxtor Diamond Max 10, model 6B200M0 (200 GB) and I just put it in May/June 2005. I ran the Maxtor diagnostic test next and of course it said it was failing. I must admit I figured it would last longer than a year. I went through all the suggestions...the drive is defragged, eliminated unnecessary background programs and so on.
I also ran the HDDlife Pro and it says it's health status is ok (76%) and it's performance is excellent (76%)...so that's a bit different from the other tests.
For the final evaluation I ran HDTach which says the drive's read speed is a mere 3 MB (well below the bench marks). The external hard drive which I bought at the same time to back up my failing drive last year (Maxtor OneTouch II, 200 GB)...well it's read speed is 28.7 MB. Now I am not a computer tech so in reality this doesn't mean much to me, but I take it that it's slow and I need a faster drive.
So does anyone have some recommendations on hard drives so this doesn't have to be a yearly adventure for me?
My computer is a Dell PC, Intel Pentium 4
THANKS
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