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![]() So just a few hours ago (from when i'm posting this) my laptop (which is a Dell Inspiron 3542) randomly shut down for no reason and when i rebooted it, some of the files on the desktop had moved and some files on the taskbar were missing.
The hard drive in this thing is a 4 year old Samsung ST1000LM024 with 30K POH and was working fine up until now (and looking around online seems to show that this model is not very good in general). What do you think, is it time to replace it and if so, what drive should i replace it with? The OS i'm using is Windows 7. |
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![]() Yes, swap it out ASAP. Replace it with a Western Digital of your choice.
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Hitachi. Toshiba. both on last seem lower quality from top ones I format with help xp bottable or HBCD. -Primary (C) -Logical (D-Y partitions) -unallocated (Z) didn't like all partition as primary and i believe have more reliable. |
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![]() Actually I have the same model here on my desk (defective) manufactured by Seagate. So I do think that ur drive is Samsung branded but manufactured by Seagate.
I would choose WD, never had problems with those |
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![]() Ok, i'm looking at getting a Western Digital WD10JPVX. should this be able to replace my current drive?
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![]() Looks good to me.
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Just like Maxtor earlier, where their name was slapped on Seagate HDDs, probably at or roughly 5 years before Samsung had the same kind of fate!
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![]() One last question, do you think the issue i had might be related to the hard drive? (PC freezing then shutting down and after rebooting, files on the desktop moved and files in the taskbar disappeared)
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![]() A shutdown is usually the CPU reaching a critical temp. Thus, on a wild goose chase, LMAOO!
A crash is most likely the HDD, except for an Athlon II-based HP CQ 61 from 2009, of course... Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 01-04-2019 at 06:31 PM.. |
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![]() personally, I'd take the HDD out, put in a SSD, ditch windows and run some flavor of linux.
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![]() Yeah, just try an SSD and see if your machine works then. 120 GByte will cost around 20-25$, even cheaper than an HDD
Or do you need the big space of the hard disk? |
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![]() I only use under 1/3 of the 1TB.
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![]() just download some kind of software that can pull the smart data from the hard disk like crystal disk info or hdtune. look for any reallocated, pending or uncorrectable sectors. that most likely indicates a failing hard disk.
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![]() I'm with ChaosLegionnaire here, first thing to check, if the hard drive looks healthy you may suspect something else. (doesn't mean the hard drive is 100% good but still)
But yeah replacing an HDD with an SSD is always a good idea as well. |
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![]() I have crystal disk info and as far as it can tell, the disk is fine.
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![]() Download HD Tune and perform a Full scan of the drive, but not in quick mode.
If there is no defective sector on the disc, the problem could be another. OR the drive electronics could habe a problem itself, but mechanically everything is good. |
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![]() Can you post a screenshot of what PassMark DiskCheckup says about the drive?
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