Toshiba MK5065GSX going bad?

[Latizes]

Hey Guys,

I'm wondering if my Hard drive is having problems with it's acess time and transfer speed due to the slow loading time, and micro stuttering I've been having.

It's a Sata-300 and 5400rpm hard drive.

Is my hard drive going bad?

 

[rolli59]

There can be other issues like needs defragmenting and how much data is on it.

 

[Latizes]

There can be other issues like needs defragmenting and how much data is on it.

I've defragged it, and it currently holds 90 Gbs out of 500 gbs

 

[rolli59]

You can run their diagnostics tool and if errors found do an RMA http://storage.toshiba.com/storage-services-support/warranty-support/software-utilities

 

[Latizes]

You can run their diagnostics tool and if errors found do an RMA http://storage.toshiba.com/storage-services-support/warranty-support/software-utilities

Sorry, but what's an RMA and what diagonistic tools do I use? Thanks

 

[rolli59]

I would start with the top one, windows tool. RMA is claiming warranty on it.

 

[Latizes]

I would start with the top one, windows tool. RMA is claiming warranty on it.

It doesn't let me select the drive after I ran it. It lists it but it doesn't let me select it. 🙁 So i can't perform diagnostics on it.

 

[rolli59]

You could try the second one as well which is a dos utility.