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    I think my HD is on its deathbed

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dietcokefiend, Oct 23, 2009.

  1. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

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    Well it has for a long time, after an hour or two of being on, it vibrates badly... speeds are also bottomed out compared to when the drive was new. Now comes the question of do I wipe the drive and send it in for an exchange with Seagate, or just buy something new and modern for my laptop.

    Attached are some before/after HDTune shots. The nice and pretty one was from when the drive was pretty darn new, disgusting one is from a few minutes ago.
     

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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    If the SMART diagnostics are fine, than it looks like the drive is okay.
    Some major defragging, and some MSCONFIG, and your system should run as good as new. You may have too many background processes running, eating up your drive speed.
    If SMART has an error, backup your files and send the drive off to seagate.

    K-TRON
     
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    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

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    Heh, the drive vibrates under activity. Like you copy a file off it and the entire thing buzzes enough to shake the palmrest. Even when clean and being benchmarked while not a system drive the speeds are terrible now.

    Problem is I dont trust refurb drives, anything I get back from Seagate will never have that full trust of a new drive. :-/
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I must have underestimated the vibrations. Its certainly not a good thing.
    With the price of laptop harddrives (120gb) being so low, simply backup your files, and send the drive back to seagate. They will replace your drive. It will probably cost you $5 to send it back to them, and you can probably get $20 for it if you sell it when you get it back.
    I do not trust refurbished drives as well. When my seagate died, they gave me a "Certified Repaired Drive". I do not know how that makes it different from refurbished, but I sold it on ebay when I got it. Surprisingly it sold for $5 less than the newegg value.

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    K-TRON, Oct 24, 2009
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    roosta Notebook Evangelist

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    if your willing to crack it open to get the drive out, have a check that all the screws are done up tight. it could be that its just vibrating in its fittings. that would unbalance the platters. from there the drive may be throttling itself to prevent further damage or the vibrations may be creating more disc errors, meaning writeing/reading takes longer since it has to keep redoing the same area.

    thats just my thoughts, im no expert though lol.
     
    roosta, Oct 24, 2009
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