One of the signs of a wonky HDD is what you noted. Those drives are old enough and a make I see this on.
It just recently started doing this, but I would record with OBS and I would get an encoding overloaded, which I used to not get that, it just started. Anyway, my video would be all choppy. When I would go to edit a video, the program (sony vegas), when I would hit pause or something like that, it would not respond, and 30 seconds later it will. Sometimes it would not respond at all. My CPU % would jump to 100% and not go back down until the program would respond. And it keeps doing that. My brother and my dad built this computer 4 years ago, and the only things left from the original build is the CPU and MB. I think it could be the CPU but i'm not sure. My CPU has 2 physical cores but 4 logical cores (thats what task manager said). I would like to know what the problem is. Would upgrading my CPU fix it? What is the problem? Thanks in advance! And here are my specs:
AMD A10 5800K
XFX R7 370
16GB PNY Ram
500GB Segate 7200rpm Hard Drive
500GB Segate 5400rpm Hard Drive
Thermaltake 650W 80+ Bronze Power Supply
(If I missed anything let me know)

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