HD Issues - Seagate 1 TB BarraCuda Dying??

[Malakai432]

Hello Community,

I've been having issues for awhile and they periodically seem to be getting worse. I have my OS installed in a Samsung Evo SSD which seems to be working great, however everything that is installed on my Seagate BarraCuda which is my secondary drive seems to be freezing for 20-30 seconds consistently. This happens for movies, games, and anything installed on the HDD, even steam takes ages to load up sometimes. When it loaded Windows after restarting computer my E: drive took about 30-40 seconds to fully load up and there were blanked out white icons on the desktop that eventually fixed itself.

It's older so it makes sense it may be dying but when I run checkdisk, scandisk or any tools it seems to show no errors. I wonder if perhaps something might've got knocked loose while I was cleaning it or moving the system?

I just installed Shadows of War and it freezes badly during cut scenes. It also has started with games like Hollow Knight when it never used to do it before.

If I reconnect it, to see perhaps if it's dust or grime caught in it would that effect anything since I only really use it as a storage drive for games, movies? I wouldn't want to tamper with it if it would just make things worse because I'll just swap it with a new drive and transfer everything in the mean time to a external HDD. Let me know if anyone has any ideas as the constant freezing is really starting to get on my nerves.

On a site note, nothing that I swap to my SDD seems to freeze. I guess I could just retry reinstalling shadows of war on my Samsung Evo but it only has about 150 gigs of space left on it. I just use the HDD for storage, primarily games and movies only. I do have about 80% of my games on it 🙁

*EDIT: I use windows 10 anniversary, not sure if that could cause some of the issues.

Thanks!

Mal

 

[DR_Luke]

Which model of 1TB Seagate is it?

7200.11 - the majority we get for data recovery are physical head crashes these days
7200.12 - the majority we get for data recovery are fatal head crashes these days
DM Series - the majority we get for data recovery typically have weak heads and firmware issues

The odds are, it is failing. Your best bet is to replace the drive, transferring the data to the new drive and then run a bunch of tests.

 

[Malakai432]

Which model of 1TB Seagate is it?

7200.11 - the majority we get for data recovery are physical head crashes these days
7200.12 - the majority we get for data recovery are fatal head crashes these days
DM Series - the majority we get for data recovery typically have weak heads and firmware issues

The odds are, it is failing. Your best bet is to replace the drive, transferring the data to the new drive and then run a bunch of tests.

That's a good question, it is the one provided in the link below. It looks like the DM series. Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

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I did swap my steam client to the C: drive which is my SSD and the games seem to run better. I didn't do much testing because it was 5-6 am. Good news is the only thing I have running to the E: drive are my steam games currently, everything else has been moved. I'll still do more testing but if worst comes to worst could I essentially:

1. Transfer the steam folder to my external HDD, swap out my old BarraCuda
2. Order and put in the new HDD
3. Make sure the bios and drivers recognize it
4. Create a partition
5. Swap Steamfolder to the new HDD and link the steam client to the new HDD so I don't have to re download all the games?

Thanks,

-Mal

 

[DR_Luke]

Yeah, this series of drive is known for weak heads and firmware issues. That isn't to say that your issues aren't elsewhere, but if the drive is degrading, I'd say that it is likely a head that is starting to fail and some media cache problems. If you can afford to replace, I'd just do it and then play with the drive later.

 

[Malakai432]

Yeah, this series of drive is known for weak heads and firmware issues. That isn't to say that your issues aren't elsewhere, but if the drive is degrading, I'd say that it is likely a head that is starting to fail and some media cache problems. If you can afford to replace, I'd just do it and then play with the drive later.

True, thanks. I do notice it seems to work better with the steam client installed on my SSD. I'll have to tool around with it a little more and it can't hurt to go ahead and add in a new drive to swap everything.

Thanks,

Mal