Is my noisy hard drive causing performance issues and on it's way out?

Breach-Curb-Greet

Commendable
Jan 3, 2017
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Experience:

I know how to build PCs, but I'm a bit out of the loop about what hardware is and isn't good anymore, and only have a basic understanding of technical things. if you start talking about the "memory architecture" and stuff like that, you've lost me.

I also suck at using Ubuntu. I cringe everytime I have to open the terminal and type text to do something, and only know what to type from reading guides, and even with guides it feels like I'm fumbling in the dark with forces I don't understand.
Background:

A PC was given to me. It was originally used as a server and came with Xubuntu. (Specs are at the end.)

Often it works fine and is fast enough. I can have multiple Firefox windows open with several tabs, and it works as you would expect.

The issue:

Sometimes when using the OS or Firefox, it slows to a crawl and takes 5+ seconds to register a click and it becomes unresponsive. It doesn't freeze, it's just like it's lost in it's HDD loading. It's horrible. While doing this, the HDD light is flashing constantly and the (primary) internal HDD makes a loud loading noise. It doesn't sound like a broken noise, just a loud, annoying hard drive loading noise. I don't know if the noise is from reading, writing, or both.

By comparison, my external Western Digital drive is whisper quiet, even when in use.

I can't use Chrome for this reason--whenever I do, it goes into "HDD loading mode" and becomes unusable.

Restarting Firefox, or restarting the PC sometimes seems to address it, almost like it's a memory leak. But not always. Sometimes it's just bloodly slow.

E.g.


  • ■ I just clicked "Software Centre." About 10 seconds later, after listening the the bloody hard drive load the whole time, it starts up.

    ■ 1 Firefox window open, 8 tabs open. Nothing intensive. Tried to highlight a URL after searching for a web page. It took about 5+ seconds to highlight the URL after the initial input.

    ■ when signing up for a forum account, it took 15+ seconds for the cursor to move into a text field!



Questions:

Someone suggested this issue was caused by disk errors on the hard drive, and that it was on it's way out.

Do you think that's accurate? How could I test if that's the case?

Why is the hard drive so damn noisy? Is it just naturally noisy? (Seems strange that it would be.)


Specs:

It has one internal hard drive: ATA ST3160023AS

Other specs:

Computer
********


Summary
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-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz
Memory : 4045MB (1677MB used)
Operating System : Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
User Name : X
Date/Time : Fri 30 Dec 2016 12:54:51
-Display-
Resolution : 1920x1200 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV98
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
Power Button
Power Button
Logitech USB Gaming Mouse
HID 04d9:1400
HID 04d9:1400
HDA Intel Front Mic
HDA Intel Rear Mic
HDA Intel Line
HDA Intel Line Out Front
HDA Intel Line Out Surround
HDA Intel Line Out CLFE
HDA Intel Line Out Side
HDA Intel Front Headphone
-Printers (CUPS)-
EPSON-XP-600-Series : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST3160023AS
ATAPI iHAS120 6
WD Ext HDD 1021

Operating System
----------------

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 4.4.0-57-generic (x86_64)
Compiled : #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 9 23:50:32 UTC 2016
C Library : Unknown
Default C Compiler : GNU C Compiler version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
Distribution : Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
-Current Session-
Computer Name : X
User Name : X
Home Directory : /home/X
Desktop Environment : XFCE 4
-Misc-
Uptime : 29 minutes
Load Average : 1.46, 1.36, 1.53

Kernel Modules
--------------

-Loaded Modules-
snd_hda_codec_analog : Analog Devices HD-audio codec
snd_hda_codec_generic : Generic HD-audio codec parser
input_leds : Input -> LEDs Bridge
snd_hda_intel : Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec : HDA codec core
snd_hda_core : HD-audio bus
snd_hwdep : Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm : Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_midi : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
snd_seq_midi_event : MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_rawmidi : Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
serio_raw : Raw serio driver
snd_seq : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_seq_device : ALSA sequencer device management
coretemp : Intel Core temperature monitor
snd_timer : ALSA timer interface
lpc_ich : LPC interface for Intel ICH
snd : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
soundcore : Core sound module
shpchp : Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
8250_fintek : Fintek F812164 module
tpm_infineon : Driver for Infineon TPM SLD 9630 TT 1.1 / SLB 9635 TT 1.2
asus_atk0110
binfmt_misc
mac_hid
parport_pc : PC-style parallel port driver
ppdev
lp
parport
autofs4
hid_generic : HID generic driver
usbhid : USB HID core driver
hid
psmouse : PS/2 mouse driver
nouveau : nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce/Quadro/Tesla
firewire_ohci : Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE1394 controllers
uas
pata_acpi : SCSI low-level driver for ATA in ACPI mode
usb_storage : USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
firewire_core : Core IEEE1394 transaction logic
mxm_wmi : MXM WMI Driver
crc_itu_t : CRC ITU-T V.41 calculations
wmi : ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
video : ACPI Video Driver
skge : SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver
i2c_algo_bit : I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
sky2 : Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet driver
ttm : TTM memory manager subsystem (for DRM device)
pata_marvell : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
drm_kms_helper : DRM KMS helper
ahci : AHCI SATA low-level driver
syscopyarea : Generic copyarea (sys-to-sys)
libahci : Common AHCI SATA low-level routines
sysfillrect : Generic fill rectangle (sys-to-sys)
sysimgblt : 1-bit/8-bit to 1-32 bit color expansion (sys-to-sys)
floppy
fb_sys_fops : Generic file read (fb in system RAM)
drm : DRM shared core routines
fjes : FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device Driver


Display
-------

-Display-
Resolution : 1920x1200 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.18.4
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1920x1200 pixels
-Extensions-
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
XVideo-MotionCompensation
-OpenGL-
Vendor : nouveau
Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV98
Version : 3.0 Mesa 13.0.1
Direct Rendering : Yes



Devices
*******


Processor
---------

-Processors-
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz : 8400.00MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz : 8400.00MHz

Memory
------

-Memory-
Total Memory : 4045800 kB
Free Memory : 2205640 kB
MemAvailable : 2180004 kB
Buffers : 28068 kB
Cached : 163392 kB
Cached Swap : 43480 kB
Active : 839736 kB
Inactive : 880080 kB
Active(anon) : 761656 kB
Inactive(anon) : 791300 kB
Active(file) : 78080 kB
Inactive(file) : 88780 kB
Unevictable : 0 kB
Mlocked : 0 kB
Virtual Memory : 9764860 kB
Free Virtual Memory : 9307988 kB
Dirty : 304 kB
Writeback : 0 kB
AnonPages : 1517480 kB
Mapped : 100352 kB
Shmem : 24484 kB
Slab : 48284 kB
SReclaimable : 21216 kB
SUnreclaim : 27068 kB
KernelStack : 6768 kB
PageTables : 29660 kB
NFS_Unstable : 0 kB
Bounce : 0 kB
WritebackTmp : 0 kB
CommitLimit : 11787760 kB
Committed_AS : 5155144 kB
VmallocTotal : 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed : 0 kB
VmallocChunk : 0 kB
HardwareCorrupted : 0 kB
AnonHugePages : 83968 kB
CmaTotal : 0 kB
CmaFree : 0 kB
HugePages_Total : 0
HugePages_Free : 0
HugePages_Rsvd : 0
HugePages_Surp : 0
Hugepagesize : 2048 kB
DirectMap4k : 97728 kB
DirectMap2M : 4096000 kB

PCI Devices
-----------

-PCI Devices-
Host bridge : Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 02)
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Audio device : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
ISA bridge : Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
IDE interface : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
SMBus : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
IDE interface : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
VGA compatible controller : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Ethernet controller : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
IDE interface : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Ethernet controller : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
FireWire (IEEE 1394) : LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 70) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

USB Devices
-----------


Printers
--------

-Printers (CUPS)-
EPSON-XP-600-Series : <i>Default</i>

Battery
-------

-No batteries-
No batteries found on this system

Sensors
-------

-Cooling Fans-
-Temperatures-
-Voltage Values-

Input Devices
-------------

-Input Devices-
Power Button
Power Button
Logitech USB Gaming Mouse
HID 04d9:1400
HID 04d9:1400
HDA Intel Front Mic
HDA Intel Rear Mic
HDA Intel Line
HDA Intel Line Out Front
HDA Intel Line Out Surround
HDA Intel Line Out CLFE
HDA Intel Line Out Side
HDA Intel Front Headphone

Storage
-------

-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST3160023AS
ATAPI iHAS120 6
WD Ext HDD 1021

DMI
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-BIOS-
Date : 06/13/2008
Vendor : American Megatrends Inc. (www.ami.com)
Version : 0704
-Board-
Name : P5Q DELUXE
Vendor : ASUSTeK Computer INC. (SEAGATE, www.seagate.com)

Resources
---------

-I/O Ports-
<tt>0000-0cf7 </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt> 0000-001f </tt> : dma1
<tt> 0020-0021 </tt> : pic1
<tt> 0040-0043 </tt> : timer0
<tt> 0050-0053 </tt> : timer1
<tt> 0060-0060 </tt> : keyboard
<tt> 0061-0061 </tt> : PNP0800:00
<tt> 0064-0064 </tt> : keyboard
<tt> 0070-0071 </tt> : rtc0
<tt> 0080-008f </tt> : dma page reg
<tt> 00a0-00a1 </tt> : pic2
<tt> 00c0-00df </tt> : dma2
<tt> 00f0-00ff </tt> : PNP0C04:00
<tt> 00f0-00ff </tt> : fpu
<tt> 0290-029f </tt> : pnp 00:03
<tt> 03c0-03df </tt> : vesafb
<tt> 03f2-03f2 </tt> : floppy
<tt> 03f4-03f5 </tt> : floppy
<tt> 03f7-03f7 </tt> : floppy
<tt> 03f8-03ff </tt> : serial
<tt> 0400-041f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
<tt> 04d0-04d1 </tt> : pnp 00:04
<tt> 0500-053f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
<tt> 0800-0803 </tt> : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
<tt> 0804-0805 </tt> : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
<tt> 0808-080b </tt> : ACPI PM_TMR
<tt> 0810-0815 </tt> : ACPI CPU throttle
<tt> 0820-082f </tt> : ACPI GPE0_BLK
<tt> 0830-0833 </tt> : iTCO_wdt.0.auto
<tt> 0850-0850 </tt> : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
<tt> 0860-087f </tt> : iTCO_wdt.0.auto
<tt>0cf8-0cff </tt> : PCI conf1
<tt>0d00-ffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt> 1000-1fff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt> 8400-840f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 8400-840f </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 8480-848f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 8480-848f </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 8800-8803 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 8800-8803 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 8880-8887 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 8880-8887 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 8c00-8c03 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 8c00-8c03 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9000-9007 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> 9000-9007 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9400-940f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> 9400-940f </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9480-948f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> 9480-948f </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9800-9803 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> 9800-9803 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9880-9887 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> 9880-9887 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> 9c00-9c03 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> 9c00-9c03 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> a000-a007 </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
<tt> a000-a007 </tt> : ata_piix
<tt> a080-a09f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> a080-a09f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> a400-a41f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> a400-a41f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> a480-a49f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> a480-a49f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> a800-a81f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> a800-a81f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> a880-a89f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> a880-a89f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> ac00-ac1f </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt> ac00-ac1f </tt> : uhci_hcd
<tt> b000-bfff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt> bc00-bc7f </tt> : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt> c000-cfff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt> c800-c8ff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
<tt> c800-c8ff </tt> : Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet driver
<tt> d000-dfff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:03
<tt> d400-d40f </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> d400-d40f </tt> : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
<tt> d480-d483 </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> d480-d483 </tt> : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
<tt> d800-d807 </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> d800-d807 </tt> : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
<tt> d880-d883 </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> d880-d883 </tt> : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
<tt> dc00-dc07 </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> dc00-dc07 </tt> : SCSI low-level driver for Marvell ATA in legacy mode
<tt> e000-efff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:05
<tt> e800-e8ff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
<tt> e800-e8ff </tt> : SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver
-Memory-
<tt>00000000-00000fff </tt> : reserved
<tt>00001000-0009e7ff </tt> : System RAM
<tt>0009e800-0009ffff </tt> : reserved
<tt>000a0000-000bffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>000c0000-000cdbff </tt> : Video ROM
<tt>000ce000-000ce3ff </tt> : Adapter ROM
<tt>000d0000-000dffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>000e4000-000fffff </tt> : reserved
<tt> 000f0000-000fffff </tt> : System ROM
<tt>00100000-cff6ffff </tt> : System RAM
<tt> 01000000-0183c36c </tt> : Kernel code
<tt> 0183c36d-01f42d3f </tt> : Kernel data
<tt> 020c0000-02208fff </tt> : Kernel bss
<tt>cff70000-cff7dfff </tt> : ACPI Tables
<tt>cff7e000-cffcffff </tt> : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
<tt>cffd0000-cfffffff </tt> : reserved
<tt>d0000000-ffffffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt> d0000000-dfffffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt> d0000000-dfffffff </tt> : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt> e0000000-efffffff </tt> : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff]
<tt> e0000000-efffffff </tt> : pnp 00:08
<tt> f0000000-f03fffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt> f0400000-f05fffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:03
<tt> f0600000-f07fffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt> f8f00000-f8ffffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt> f9ff8000-f9ffbfff </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
<tt> f9ff8000-f9ffbfff </tt> : ICH HD audio
<tt> f9fff400-f9fff4ff </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
<tt> f9fff800-f9fffbff </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
<tt> f9fff800-f9fffbff </tt> : ehci_hcd
<tt> f9fffc00-f9ffffff </tt> : Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
<tt> f9fffc00-f9ffffff </tt> : ehci_hcd
<tt> fa000000-fe8fffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt> fa000000-fbffffff </tt> : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt> fd000000-fdffffff </tt> : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt> fe8e0000-fe8fffff </tt> : NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt> fe900000-fe9fffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt> fe9c0000-fe9dffff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
<tt> fe9fc000-fe9fffff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
<tt> fe9fc000-fe9fffff </tt> : Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet driver
<tt> fea00000-feafffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:03
<tt> feaffc00-feafffff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II / PATA Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
<tt> feb00000-febfffff </tt> : PCI Bus 0000:05
<tt> febc0000-febdffff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
<tt> febfb000-febfbfff </tt> : LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 70) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
<tt> febfb000-febfbfff </tt> : Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE1394 controllers
<tt> febfc000-febfffff </tt> : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
<tt> febfc000-febfffff </tt> : SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver
<tt> fec00000-fec003ff </tt> : IOAPIC 0
<tt> fed00000-fed003ff </tt> : HPET 0
<tt> fed00000-fed003ff </tt> : PNP0103:00
<tt> fed08000-fed08fff </tt> : pnp 00:04
<tt> fed14000-fed19fff </tt> : pnp 00:00
<tt> fed1c000-fed1ffff </tt> : pnp 00:04
<tt> fed1f410-fed1f414 </tt> : iTCO_wdt.0.auto
<tt> fed20000-fed3ffff </tt> : pnp 00:04
<tt> fed50000-fed8ffff </tt> : pnp 00:04
<tt> fee00000-fee00fff </tt> : Local APIC
<tt> fee00000-fee00fff </tt> : reserved
<tt> fee00000-fee00fff </tt> : pnp 00:07
<tt> ffa00000-ffbfffff </tt> : INT0800:00
<tt> ffc00000-ffdfffff </tt> : pnp 00:05
<tt> ffe00000-ffffffff </tt> : reserved
<tt> ffe00000-ffffffff </tt> : INT0800:00
<tt>100000000-12fffffff </tt> : System RAM
-DMA-
<tt> 2</tt> : floppy
<tt> 4</tt> : cascade

Network
*******


Interfaces
----------

-Network Interfaces-
lo 2.17MiB 2.17MiB 127.0.0.1
eth1 0.00MiB 0.00MiB
eth0 45.47MiB 12.13MiB 10.1.1.133


Benchmarks
**********


CPU Blowfish
------------

-CPU Blowfish-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 8.741
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 26.1876862
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 172.816713

CPU CryptoHash
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-CPU CryptoHash-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 149.947

CPU Fibonacci
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-CPU Fibonacci-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 2.776
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 8.1375674
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 58.07682

CPU N-Queens
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-CPU N-Queens-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 7.346

FPU FFT
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-FPU FFT-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 3.842

FPU Raytracing
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-FPU Raytracing-
<big><b>This Machine</b></big> 8400 MHz 7.051
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 40.8816714
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 161.312647
 
Solution
Hey there.

From what I was able to find out, the HDD model is quite old. It's a SATA I drive, which means that it's probably a lot slower compared HDDs nowadays and not because some of them can achieve faster speeds than 150MB/s, but because the technology is most probably different from back then. Anyway being an old HDD could mean that it has accumulated some bad sectors, especially if it was used extensively as a server drive.
I'd recommend that you backup any important files which you might have written on it and download the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tool so that you can test the drive for errors and bad sectors. If nothing suspicious pops-up, you could try it out with a different SATA port and cables.

Hope that helps...
Hey there.

From what I was able to find out, the HDD model is quite old. It's a SATA I drive, which means that it's probably a lot slower compared HDDs nowadays and not because some of them can achieve faster speeds than 150MB/s, but because the technology is most probably different from back then. Anyway being an old HDD could mean that it has accumulated some bad sectors, especially if it was used extensively as a server drive.
I'd recommend that you backup any important files which you might have written on it and download the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tool so that you can test the drive for errors and bad sectors. If nothing suspicious pops-up, you could try it out with a different SATA port and cables.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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