Hi, apologies for my first post being a terrible "help me" one, but I'd like a second opinion on this. I've taken ownership of a PC with a Seagate ST1000LM024 2.5" 1TB HDD (manufacturer specifications here: https://www.seagate.com/files/staticfiles/support/docs/samsung-ds/100698122c.pdf) and ran CrystalDiskMark to figure out why the PC is being unworkably sluggish in certain operations, but I can't really understand the results. They are:
The test was performed on 1GB of the drive with five test counts.
It seems to me that the drive is past its use by date and needs a replacement, but if somebody could weigh in with another opinion I'd be extremely grateful.
Those 4k numbers are brutally slow, but the normal read/write numbers are okay if it's old. Mechanical drives are not the best for random reads/writes, so it may be okay, however the big clue here for me is it's a 2.5 drive. Laptops power off/power on drives a LOT. Spin up is hard on drives so I've seen laptops chew up good WD and Seagate drives after two years if the owner runs on battery a lot.
Have you checked SMART status? It should be available under disk management in the computer management console in any modern version of windows. The SMART data will tell you every bad read/write that has ever happened as well as total powered on time for the drive and total spin up count. If it's been powered on for a number of years, has alot of errors, or a high spin up count, then it's a candidate for replacement if a fresh install doesn't fix the performance issues.
Those 4k numbers are brutally slow, but the normal read/write numbers are okay if it's old. Mechanical drives are not the best for random reads/writes, so it may be okay, however the big clue here for me is it's a 2.5 drive. Laptops power off/power on drives a LOT. Spin up is hard on drives so I've seen laptops chew up good WD and Seagate drives after two years if the owner runs on battery a lot.
Have you checked SMART status? It should be available under disk management in the computer management console in any modern version of windows. The SMART data will tell you every bad read/write that has ever happened as well as total powered on time for the drive and total spin up count. If it's been powered on for a number of years, has alot of errors, or a high spin up count, then it's a candidate for replacement if a fresh install doesn't fix the performance issues.
The hard drive is in an all-in-one, so it'll likely have been powered up/down less often. Having said that, the previous owner was older and did turn it on and off whenever he used it. If I replace the drive, is there any particular software you recommend for cloning the existing drive? I've installed a fresh version of Windows and defragged it, but performance is still somewhat lacking.
The hard drive is in an all-in-one, so it'll likely have been powered up/down less often. Having said that, the previous owner was older and did turn it on and off whenever he used it. If I replace the drive, is there any particular software you recommend for cloning the existing drive? I've installed a fresh version of Windows and defragged it, but performance is still somewhat lacking.
Those are really slow drives, your values are a bit below average, but still ok, especially if it's partially full or used as OS drive as that affect results.
I would check SMART data to see if there are any problems, suspicious/remaped sectors etc.
New drives should be at least twice as fast.
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