I have been having problems withsome of my games having fps drops,and i was messing around and i moved one of the games over to my SSD,and the problems went away.
I checked the drive with crystaldiskinfo and it says it has 1 reallocated sector,i also checked it with crystaldiskmark and i get about 120mb/s.
The drive is a seagate 7200rpm 1.5TB sata 2 drive.
Also i have the drive set to defrag once a week,so that is not it.
Any one have any idea on how to fix it?
Or do i need to get a new drive?
If so,suggestions?
EDIT:If it helps here is the drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
I guess i will deal with the drive for now till i can afford to get a new one,then use the new drive for games,and just use this one for storing everything but games lol.
I use the windows defrager on all my normal hard drives,it is set to defrag once a week,and it is currently 0% fragmented.
All i know is that 2 different games run smoothly on my SSD,and random frame rate drops on my HDD,and that was just me copying the entire game folder to the SSD.
So far i have only noticed it on 2 games(DDO and Diablo 3) but i will post back if it happens on any other games,but also i have not been able to play games for a little while until just recently,so there could be more game that do it.
EDIT:also i have been looking at 3 different drives,a 1tb WD blue for $85,a WD 1tb black for $110, or a WD RE4 for $120,which should i get? keep in mind it will hold all my games,and that i keep my rig running almost 24/7.
it does do some short freezes just after the gets loaded and i am in the map,but then after a min or 2 then most of what the problem is that on the SSD i get 80-150+fps(no matter what),on the hdd it i get the same fps if i am just running around,but if i get into a big group of monsters,and start casting my spells the my fps starts dropping i have seen it get as low as 10fps(i was watching my fps with fraps).
1.i can't back it up cause the only extrnal hard drive i have is a 60gb,my brother-in-law does a have a 250gb which would help,but i have over a TB on data on this drive lol and the only othe drives i have in my rig are a 60gb ssd(4.6gb left lol)and an old sata 1 WD 250gb drive which is full of fraps recordings.
2.i did run CrystalDiskMark,and on 50mb seq test it got 79.10 read,and 77.44 write,what program should i use to stresstest it.
3.on CrystalDiskinfo it says caution it has one reallocated sector, also sinceyou think it is not my HDD,how do you explain the games run great on my SSD?
4.i was planing if i got a new drive i would put my game on the new drive,and use the old drive as media storage(since it does that just fine).
You could try http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896646 and look for long requests (0.1s or more) when fps drops happen. Also how much ram do you have and how much is used?
i used that program,and i noticed a pattern,the fps drops happen when the hard drive is writing instead of reading,and the request time for those are about 3.0s.
I have 8GB of 1600mhz ram,and when playing(plus all the other programs i have running)my rig uses 5.8GB of my ram.
That is quite a lot of ram used. Try disabling swap if its enabled, kill some background programs and see if it helps. Writes probably mean pages are getting swapped out.
3 seconds is a lot, unless there are a lot of other requests at the same time (at least 50 per second) your disk is having problems.
Which drive is the windows Swap file on? it could be that now your game files are drawn from the SSD, and the Swap file is on the HDD, meaning, when you get a lot of action in game, the computer is so busy paging the swap file that no other data can be quickly retrieved, but now your game files are on the SSD which is not getting hammered with the Swap File.
Even one bad sector means that there is damage, I would get prepared for a replacement, I'd say backup when you can, and use it till she dies :D
Reminder: Prices drop rapidly on the market, the longer you can wait for this hard drive to fail, the more GB's you can get per dollar.
Ok i disable the page file(idk if that is the same thing) lol,if not how do i disable the swap file?
Also for my testing when i copied the game to my SSD,i also left the other copy on my HDD,so that i can still run both which has been helpful for trying to fix this lol
What size and and brand of hard drive should i get?
the space i already have is 60GB(4.62GB left)SSD,1.5TB drive sata 2 drive(261GB left),250GB sata 1 drive(35.3GB left).
Alright, the problem surfaces, your drives are to full to properly run the page file during heavy games, get a westren digital regular, (not green), hard drive and move your games to it, I would recommend a 2 tbt to give your games plenty of freedom, I personally do not fill a drive over half full as it causes slowing down of games, movies, and higher power using programs like editing programs such as adobe stuffs....
Well a 2TB WD drive is a little out of my price range lol at $180 for a WD Black,there is a WD red for 130$ which is more my price range lol,but i don't know if a red would be good for what i need.
Would a 1TB be ok? i looked at my steam folder(it's most of my games) in 491GB,and the only other games i remember that i have are DDO,Diablo 3,battlefield 3,and LOL.
Also if you think i could use a 1TB,should i go with a WD Black,or a WD Blue?
Ok guys i have been talking to my brother in law who works for a server hosting company,and i was talking to him about hard drives,and he said from what he has seen he would not hesitate to buy a seagate(but i am a little worried about buying another seagate),but he also said he would not buy a WD Caviar(and a WD black is a caviar) drive cause of all the problems thos have givin him at work,but he did say that the WD Enterprise grade drives they have are rock solid and has had little to no problems with them.
So what do guys think? should just get a WD black,or pay $10 bucks more for a WD RE4 which is an Enterprise Hard grade drive? Or do you guys haveany better suggestions?