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Trying to determine whether my PC needs a new HDD.. I ran a test today on it and I get 5mb/s write speeds from it, so me having 75mb/s internet is completely useless (Just found this out today..) I have a Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1tb hard drive and it may be time that I got a SSD. The results of my HDD Test are below

Kinda shitty.. The link to the test program is here you want the diskmark 3.0.1 download link for the program I used. If you could share your speeds and what Hard Disks you have that'd be a great help for me to know if my hard drive needs replacing, thanks :P

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here's one of my ssd's.  Cheers

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Are you sure you're not mixing up megabytes (most common unit of measurement for disks) and megabits (most common unit of measurement for network connections)? A 75 MB/s connection would be very impressive, but 75mbit/s sounds a lot more likely, and a write speed of 5MB/s is equivalent to 40mbit/s. If you consider how unlikely it is to fully max your connection out, or achieve near-100% efficiency while downloading something, I don't think you particularly have to worry about getting a faster disk to download files (though 5MB/s is horrible in general, I'd re-run and make sure the test was running in ideal conditions).

On top of that, even if you're receiving file content faster than you can write to disk, you probably have more then enough RAM to buffer gigabytes of file contents. At the worst (best?)-case of getting pure file content at 60mbit/s and the disk writing going smoothly, 150MB of RAM could be filled every minute, which would almost be a problem if you were downloading files several gigabytes in size that take half an hour or so, except there's likely to be network instability that causes intermittent drops in speed that gives time to flush the data in RAM to disk (especially common with torrents, which is probably the only way you're getting 60mbit/s file transfers over the Internet).

I would run a Disk Check in windows to check for bad sectors, the only reason you should be getting speeds that slow is if it has to do a lot of bad block checking to reroute the data to viable sectors. I have old Toshiba 1.5 GB/s 5400 RPM 500GB laptop drives that get faster write speeds then that....

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