I’ve owned a WD 1TB harddrive for about 2 years now, still got about 400gb free, everything is fine with the drive, except for its response time.
It’s taking about 20 seconds to show the files in my folders, or if I go to save a file, nothing happens for about 20 seconds, then suddenly it all happens at once. It’s not really a bad problem, more of an annoyance. It was fine 2 weeks ago, opening folders happened in under a second, now I have to wait. I’ve tried it on my laptop too to check it wasn’t just an error with windows, but it’s just as slow on a different machine.
Defrag and system check says there is nothing wrong with the drive, it’s just running very slowly. I’d understand it if it was just because there was a large amount of data on there, but as mentioned earlier, it was really quick two weeks ago, and I’ve barely saved anything on it since, so it’s not like I’ve suddenly filled it up.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try. Last night it just pretty much stopped transferring. It was saying the ETA to transfer 50mb of data was 25minutes! Which rules out me copying the 400gb data off and formatting it.
06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 97 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1!
Which after a quick bit of googling suggest the drive is failing.
It’s not under warrenty anymore, and the transfer speeds have dropped so much that copying all my data off (after a quick bit of maths) would take over a year at current speeds.
Is there anything I can do or is it just buggered? I did think about opening it up and turning it into an internernal hard drive. Do you think I’d be able to pull the stuff off it any faster if it was directly connected to the computer, or would it still take over a year?
