I currently have a Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB hard drive, and lately I've begun to suspect that it's starting to fail.
I'm unable to play videos from the drive as they will either lag too much, refuse to load or completely freeze. It's the same when I'm gaming, the game will either refuse to load, and when it finally does and I'm able to play, I'll frequently experience lag spikes and freezes for up to about 20 seconds at a time - rendering the game unplayable. Sony Vegas is almost unusable as well, since it either freezes for 5-10 seconds or crashes completely everytime i try to play back the video on the timeline (Sony Vegas is stored on the SSD, but all the project media is on the HDD)
I've tried playing the same videos on my SSD (I have a Samsung EVO 250GB as well), along with transferring my games to the SSD to see if it had any effect - and both the videos and games worked flawleslly on the SSD.
I've tested the read and write on the hard drive as well as testing it with Seagate's own Seatool, and both look fine. It passed the test just fine, and this is the benchmark results:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6573254 (along with the rest of my components)
As I said, I'm on the verge of bying a new one, most likely the Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM00 3TB, as it's not too expensive.
Is there anything else I can try to fix this, or is an upgrade inevitable?
I'm unable to play videos from the drive as they will either lag too much, refuse to load or completely freeze. It's the same when I'm gaming, the game will either refuse to load, and when it finally does and I'm able to play, I'll frequently experience lag spikes and freezes for up to about 20 seconds at a time - rendering the game unplayable. Sony Vegas is almost unusable as well, since it either freezes for 5-10 seconds or crashes completely everytime i try to play back the video on the timeline (Sony Vegas is stored on the SSD, but all the project media is on the HDD)
I've tried playing the same videos on my SSD (I have a Samsung EVO 250GB as well), along with transferring my games to the SSD to see if it had any effect - and both the videos and games worked flawleslly on the SSD.
I've tested the read and write on the hard drive as well as testing it with Seagate's own Seatool, and both look fine. It passed the test just fine, and this is the benchmark results:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6573254 (along with the rest of my components)
As I said, I'm on the verge of bying a new one, most likely the Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM00 3TB, as it's not too expensive.
Is there anything else I can try to fix this, or is an upgrade inevitable?
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