Question: What title says, the only problem my drive ever had since day 1 is being noisy, you can hear sort of a “blrblrlbrlblrblr” everytime the HDD has to write something. Rather annoying but no big deal.
Anyway, lately, 4 years after I’ve acquired it I’ve been having a problem, which is that it takes more time to refresh the Windows 10 desktop. Say I download an image or close a folder, well, although the machine and all programs keep working fine, the desktop (the windows explorer more like) gets stuck and takes like 5-10 secs to refresh.
Now that raised a red flag, did an scan and I found that, so far, have 500,000 bad sectors (so the drive should be around 60% scanned or so, but the % is stuck at 0).
Seems weird because I can still access all my data, write and read from it just fine, it’s actually just slow on windows explorer.
In any case, I have backed up my data to other storage devices so this doesn’t concern me greatly.
Funny thing, I have a 320 GB HDD from the same brand that does not have any bad sectors, doesn’t make noise, its 1 year older (5-6 years old) and still works great.
Any Ideas of what It might be? Can I fix it with HDD Regenerator? Maybe a few slaps to the HDD lol? Or should I just ditch it entirely?
Or can I just keep using it normally expeting it to become ever slower?
Thanks
SMART report
http://imgur.com/1isphvk
Answer:Please download and run Crystaldiskinfo and that will tell you exactly the status of the hard drive. It can say Good in green or give percentage or say Caution. I bet it says caution which means backup your stuff from that drive then put a magnet on it and toss her away.? ?