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My secondary laptop is so slow and unpredictable that it is unusable. It's an Acer Aspire S3 with i5, 4GB RAM and 320GB HDD. I have always suspected the HD, so I ran HDTune today. Here are the results:
From what I understand these results are horrible (right?). Before I go to purchase a new HD and replace, is there anything else I can check to verify WHY these results are so bad? Can I assume replacing the HD will fix this? (I have ran memtest86+ and no errors came up)
Edit: Added health info:
1We need to see the health information on the drive in order to help. The reason new users are not allowed to post images is because new users have not proven themselves not to post inappropriate things As for the reason the results are bad, its simple, the drive is likely defective. A specific reason cannot be answered by us, we don't have the drive, and we are not the manufacture of the drive. – Ramhound – 2014-01-18T14:23:29.007
Thanks. I am not looking for a reason why the drive is defective, just a confirmation that it is. Added health info. – itaysk – 2014-01-18T14:59:21.657
1Actually your data says it all - you have some bad sectors (it happens) which have been reallocated (which also happens as a disk gets older). On the other hand its a lot of sectors (which is very very bad) , and there's some sectors waiting for reallocation (which is very bad) - replacing the hard drive will result in a hard drive without these bad sectors, which is good. – Journeyman Geek – 2014-01-18T15:04:55.573