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How do I troubleshoot a slow hard drive?
I have a SeaGate drive and I ran the long and short generic tests and they passed. However, the system still seems slow after a defrag and the processes are very few so I am still sure the drive is bad. Is there any other tests or something I can try and prove it's not the drive?
Acronis Drive Monitor will work and is free. I use this, it's really good. However, like all of these things, it's only as good as the signal route - IE, a bad cable may cause false positives etc so if you can also test the cable you will have the extra reassurance (and of course then the port on the motherboard! Although normally, the results are pretty accurate I just wanted to point out it could be something else.)
Acronis Drive Monitor: Estimate health percentage, and use Windows Event Log events (which may be related to risk of data loss). Can trigger automatic backup on S.M.A.R.T. alert when combined with Acronis backup software.
Wikipedia also gives you an overview of such S.M.A.R.T tools (too much to copy across).
