Question WD Blue HDD dying?

[Edisan]

My HDD is going to be 4 years of age as of December this year(if it survives for that long).I have been getting really slow download times for some time now but I brushed it off.As I am writing this my disk is peaking at 100% for no apparent reason, it does this from time to time.Also it would freeze without anything more that a few tabs of chrome open(not even that much sometimes).I ran the WD Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic to see if it would pass.After two hours and a full scan it passed all the tests.I was downloading an episode of a show and the download speed was peaking at about 3mb/s.I am currently downloading a game and it has peaked at about 15mb/s.Is my hard disk dying?

 

[gourge]

Download speeds are different from disk speeds, if you have a usb three device you can max out the disk to see if theres a problem with it but for £20 you can get a cheap ssd

 

[Edisan]

Download speeds are different from disk speeds, if you have a usb three device you can max out the disk to see if theres a problem with it but for £20 you can get a cheap ssd

That's the thing though it takes an unreasonable amount of time to download anything I throw at it.It also goes to 100% and slows and sometimes freezes for a bit.

 

[gourge]

Have you tried defragmenting your disk

 

[Edisan]

Have you tried defragmenting your disk

I have no idea what that is or how to do it

 

[gourge]

go to my computer and right click on the disk then click properties go to the tab tools and click on the defragment tool

 

[jsmithepa]

HDsentinel will tell.

 

[mdd1963]

IN light of the Corsair MX500 500GB SSD now costing only $69, I'd change it and experience the SSD-goodness that all deserve....!

 

[iMatty]

Well the 100% harddisk is also windows related, there some unneeded background tasks that will task your disk to be at 100% and that happened to me before, just search on how to disable these background tasks and defrag your disk and do disk cleanup that should help with the disk to speed it up.
Also opening multiple chrome tabs doesn't mean it's your disk only, it means that your RAM is not keeping up as well.

 

[Edisan]

Well the 100% harddisk is also windows related, there some unneeded background tasks that will task your disk to be at 100% and that happened to me before, just search on how to disable these background tasks and defrag your disk and do disk cleanup that should help with the disk to speed it up.
Also opening multiple chrome tabs doesn't mean it's your disk only, it means that your RAM is not keeping up as well.

IN light of the Corsair MX500 500GB SSD now costing only $69, I'd change it and experience the SSD-goodness that all deserve....!

I could buy one but I don't really care all that much about speed anymore.When I was actively playing and using my PC for a lot of other things it was different.If I get back into it I'll consider it but for now I'm sticking with it.

 

[Edisan]

HDsentinel will tell.

It says performance and health at 100%."
The hard disk status is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or data transfer errors.

No actions needed."Fuck it I'm done researching and shit.I'm just gonna live with it and that's that.

 

[Edisan]

Well the 100% harddisk is also windows related, there some unneeded background tasks that will task your disk to be at 100% and that happened to me before, just search on how to disable these background tasks and defrag your disk and do disk cleanup that should help with the disk to speed it up.
Also opening multiple chrome tabs doesn't mean it's your disk only, it means that your RAM is not keeping up as well.

I've done all three of those.My Ram is fine.

 

[SkyNetRising]

How much ram?
What is causing HDD utilization?
(use Resource Monitor, Disk tab, Disk Activity section to determine, post screenshot (order by column Total, make file name column fully visible))

Spoiler

Resource Monitor window looks like this: