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February 5th, 2005 12:00

Can a Hard Drive Slow Down Over Time

I have a Dimension 8200 system with the original IBM 40G Deskstar hard drive still installed. I am getting write speeds of less than 3 MB/sec and read speeds around 6 MB/sec. Can this drive be slowing down without failing outright? There is still 30% free space (~12 GB) available on the drive. Windows page file is set at around 750MB if thats important.
 
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    ejn63

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    Posted February 5th, 2005 12:00

    Given that it's probably a Deathstar drive, a run with the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test is in order.

    If the drive is calling its error correction circuitry into routine use, yes, that can slow the drive appreciably.
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    Posted February 5th, 2005 14:00

    A possible reason why your hard drive is slowing down is because it's already full.
    Do the following:
    1. Disk Clean-up
    2. Scandisk
    3. Disk defragmenter
    4. Delete files that you do not need to free up space on your hard drive.
    I'm sure you'll see a big performance change....
     

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