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I've faced weird issue with my HDD. I bought it new on august, the model is: WDC WD10EZEX-00RKKA0
After 10 minutes it starts to freezing every time i make any request to HDD. At first i thought it might be windows issue, but i have mac os installed on other hdd, and there is same thing when im trying to listen music. It simply loading song about 10secods, and red light always enabled(on my case). I tried to run chkdsk but no errors were found. Is there something else that i could do before reformatting it?
Avdept
Posted 2013-12-17T20:30:44.473
Reputation: 163
This sounds remarkably similar to a problem I just solved: http://superuser.com/questions/1168116/hdd-takes-a-long-time-to-respond-from-idle-but-smart-tells-me-that-spin-up-time Basically lots of lag when reading from disk, but SMART says it's a healthy drive. I turned out I was running the disk in AHCI mode rather than IDE. You can find these settings in the BIOS.
– Excrubulent – 2017-01-21T07:44:34.3431Check SMART status. HD Tune will show in under Health tab on Windows. – gronostaj – 2013-12-17T20:36:55.270
Smart shows that everything is OK – Avdept – 2013-12-17T20:40:50.477
Use Western Digital's diagnostics to check it.
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-12-17T21:21:19.073Try to plug your hd in another SATA slot on the mainboard, with an other SATA data cable. – peterh - Reinstate Monica – 2013-12-17T22:28:06.720
Seems like my SATA cable is very old, so i replaced with another one, and it worked well for about 30min. – Avdept – 2013-12-18T08:25:54.240
@techie007, thanks for link, ill try this out as well. – Avdept – 2013-12-18T08:30:22.210