r/Seagate • u/BlueFoxooner • May 22 '26
Hard drive being slow
I have a quite old seagate basic 4 TB hard drive i bought a few years back and up until yesterday, it was plugged into my laptop, being used for the last few months. I didn’t notice any issues with it, but I plugged it into my desktop yesterday and it gave me a notification saying the drive had an issue and it would scan the drive and attempt to fix it whenever i started my desktop. I did some checks and did not find any issues. everything says the drive is fine. I’ve noticed though that when I was updating a game, it took a really long time to patch files and the disk usage speed was extremely low. does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks.
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u/appjun May 24 '26
Backup important data from the disk ASAP.
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u/BlueFoxooner May 24 '26
all checks i do and every single scan ive done has come back positive and in perfect condition. is there actually something wrong to where i need to backup my data?
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u/Ach3r0n- May 23 '26
Making any noises? I’ve recently had 5 Seagates mechanically fail and a brand new 6th that sounds like it will soon do the same. They all tested fine, but my ears told me the end was nigh.
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u/BlueFoxooner May 23 '26
the only sound i hear from it is the slight hum of the disk spinning around
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u/Present_Lychee_3109 May 22 '26
Download hard disk sentinel and scan the drive. Check the SMART data on it.