On Friday, I had a fairly severe hard drive crash involving corruption of files and such, but apparently no hard damage, just soft failure. Afterwards, I had a lot of frustration trying to get the system set up -- a brand new install of WinXP would implode for no apparent reason.
So, after rewriting the partition table and starting over completely, things seemed to be in order, until just now. I was thinking everything was alright, until I fired up Half Life 2. Lots of stuttering and such (with a gig of RAM, A64, etc). Starting to get a little suspicious of the drive again. So I download and fire up SiSoft Sandra and run a filesystem benchmark, which takes just under an hour. The result? My drive index is ~3.75 MB/s. Miserably low. Half the speed of an ATA 33 drive.
What's going on? Is this drive toast, or is something else wrong?
So, after rewriting the partition table and starting over completely, things seemed to be in order, until just now. I was thinking everything was alright, until I fired up Half Life 2. Lots of stuttering and such (with a gig of RAM, A64, etc). Starting to get a little suspicious of the drive again. So I download and fire up SiSoft Sandra and run a filesystem benchmark, which takes just under an hour. The result? My drive index is ~3.75 MB/s. Miserably low. Half the speed of an ATA 33 drive.
What's going on? Is this drive toast, or is something else wrong?