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I have been using my laptop ASUS S300C through various ages. Recently I am experiencing a continuous lagging functioning and not responding windows.
It does not matter what OS I have installed (Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Linux distros), every moment the hard-drive is working hard and I barely am able to gain the cursor to write some text or perform other tasks.
The computer works but the user experience is awful, because I lose control every moment.
I checked some settings of the software I am using and the computer is no longer reaching to 100% memory usage. Furthermore, the blocking behaviour is not even related to high cpu loads.
It seems that the hard-drive is called for work every moment and it is a bottleneck. I have no issues with data transfer.
Also browsing is very difficult, tabs are sort of stuck, they are rendered with effort, they seem to be blocked for a certain amount of time. Very often I lose wifi connection (because of the system in trouble I think). It's not a throttling issue, I think it depends on the swap system but it is called with no reason.
What can I do to use my computer again like I used to do?
Below there is the S.M.A.R.T. tools output:
C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win8.1] (sf-6.6-1) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z5K500 Device Model: Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 Serial Number: TE85423NG6MT7W LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 770c3047c Firmware Version: GG2OA6C0 User Capacity: 500.107.862.016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Form Factor: 2.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Wed Dec 26 15:48:02 2018 SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 45) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off supp ort. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 119) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_ FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 253 253 033 Pre-fail Always - 1 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 078 078 000 Old_age Always - 35041 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 067 067 000 Old_age Always - 14640 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 3594 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 184 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 069 069 000 Old_age Always - 313762 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 187 187 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Min/Max 11/45) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 12 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 12 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 14219 hours (592 days + 11 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 87 c1 2d 0a Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0a2dc187 = 170770823 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 01 50 87 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.670 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 48 86 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.670 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 2f 00 01 10 00 00 e0 00 06:45:39.670 READ LOG EXT 60 01 40 86 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.293 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 38 85 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.292 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Error 11 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 14219 hours (592 days + 11 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 86 c1 2d 0a Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0a2dc186 = 170770822 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 01 40 86 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.293 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 38 85 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:39.292 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 2f 00 01 10 00 00 e0 00 06:45:39.292 READ LOG EXT 60 01 30 85 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.915 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 28 84 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.915 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Error 10 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 14219 hours (592 days + 11 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 85 c1 2d 0a Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0a2dc185 = 170770821 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 01 30 85 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.915 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 28 84 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.915 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 2f 00 01 10 00 00 e0 00 06:45:38.914 READ LOG EXT 60 01 20 84 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.537 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 18 83 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.537 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Error 9 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 14219 hours (592 days + 11 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 84 c1 2d 0a Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0a2dc184 = 170770820 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 01 20 84 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.537 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 18 83 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.537 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 2f 00 01 10 00 00 e0 00 06:45:38.536 READ LOG EXT 60 01 10 83 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.159 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 08 82 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.159 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Error 8 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 14219 hours (592 days + 11 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle . After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 01 83 c1 2d 0a Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0a2dc183 = 170770819 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 01 10 83 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.159 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 08 82 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:38.159 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 2f 00 01 10 00 00 e0 00 06:45:38.159 READ LOG EXT 60 01 f8 82 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:37.781 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 01 f0 81 c1 2d 40 00 06:45:37.781 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA _of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6557 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6418 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6375 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6345 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6288 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6135 - # 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6095 - # 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6006 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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– DavidPostill – 2018-12-26T14:26:47.843@DavidPostill see edits – P5music – 2018-12-26T14:51:51.790