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Question

Hard drive dying? And with what do i replace it.

Apr 22, 2017 2:00PM PDT

Hello, so at our house i am the tech savvy guy who builds the computers for everyone and the one who maintains them. This means that I sometimes upgrade or replace something when it is (almost) broken, now my dad's pc, which contains, alot of pictures and films, of the family, was upgraded recently, now the thing is, the pc itself is pretty fast, but the hard drive is the thing slowing it down. It was pretty new (hardly used but 3 years old), but it constantly makes that irritating noise not clickinjg but rather like a krrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrrrrrrr more like a geiger counter. So i got suspicous, and opened crystal disk, and it said "warning" these are the three things it said that are wrong; "reallocated sectors: now:100, max:100, threshold: 36, pending sector count: now 100, max: 100, threshold: 0, uncorrectable sector count: now: 100, max: 100, threshold: 0, and hdd tune marks the spin retry count in yellow it says: now: 100, max:100, thershold: 97. But hdd tune does mark the drive as ok. Is this normal or should I do something, the reason that I am trying to be carefull is because it contains important data, that is backed up, but still. And now, lets say that there is something wrong what do you think i should buy, like a 500 gb SSD, or maybe a hybrid drive, or just a regular HDD, and which model?
Many thanks in advance,
Vincent

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(NT) We'll give you info if give us info....
Apr 22, 2017 2:05PM PDT
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What info?
Apr 22, 2017 2:36PM PDT

What info do you need apart the crystal disk readings?

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Time to hit Crystal Disk support.
Apr 22, 2017 3:18PM PDT
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I've used all of those.
Apr 22, 2017 2:12PM PDT

Today a 500GB SSD is the sweet spot on price. Just over 100 today (or less on sale) and that's what we paid for the old HDD years ago. You didn't reveal if you are ready for the HDD to just die.

That is, so many ask how to recover and it's never good news. Why not take the plunge to SSD and use the old HDD as a spare clone when you get done?

It's not dead yet.

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Ssd
Apr 22, 2017 6:17PM PDT