Hard drive age showing?

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Casper312

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So i was messing around with my backup computer cause im thinking of selling it and i noticed that things ran very slow, meaning when either installing a game or something similar, it will make the computer freeze up when doing other simple things like browsing on firefox or just plainly listening to music.

Everything on the computer is running perfectly, mild overclocks, no overheating, nothing. The only thing that i thought of right away was the hard drive, its around 4.5 years old now its a WD 250GB Ide hard drive. i have heard that around that time its probably a good time to start replacing it but not entirely sure.

As for its performance i ran Hd tune and a error scan came out normal, and benchmark results were Transfer rate minimum 16.4mb/s max 56.7mb/s average 46.8 mb/s - Access time 19.4ms burst rate 75mb/s cpu usage -1%
 
A "Hard God" asking a question about system performance without listing system specs?
 
I've never heard of a hard drive slowing down with age. I don't know if this is the HD you have, but here's a review of a 250GB WD IDE drive that shows 36-57MB/s read speeds. Maybe you're just experiencing the effect of going from a fast new system to a slow old one? Or maybe there's something else wrong with it. Windows does tend to get slower with age, for whatever reason. Maybe fragmentation, infection, etc.
 
Old Hippie said:
A "Hard God" asking a question about system performance without listing system specs?
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been off for a bit so i took off my rig sig since its all 100% updated, but the backup system is a 3800x2 @ 2.6Ghz, 4GB DDR420, Gigabyte Nforce 4, Evga 9800GTX. Like i said Cpu/ram is 100% stable.

I've never heard of a hard drive slowing down with age. I don't know if this is the HD you have, but here's a review of a 250GB WD IDE drive that shows 36-57MB/s read speeds. Maybe you're just experiencing the effect of going from a fast new system to a slow old one? Or maybe there's something else wrong with it. Windows does tend to get slower with age, for whatever reason. Maybe fragmentation, infection, etc.
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The system is pretty decent to be honest but thats the weird thing i experienced this when i did a fresh install of windows 7 on the system. I just find it weird that i cant have anything going like music or firefox when installing or the system doing something heavy.

Only other thing i thought of causing this is the dvd drive itself due to getting some errors today on it when installing games itself or burning things on the computer, can that possibly be it? I'm gonna have to put in a different drive in there and check tomorrow.

If you are wondering why i think the drive might be causing this is because all the times this happened both the drives were in use.
 
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