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Man, my hard drive started acting incredibly sketchy yesterday.
It went from running perfectly fine to basically crawling through molasses in a single instant. That red activity light just went absolutely haywire, staying lit up constantly like it was possessed. Even opening the most pathetic, tiny little file takes like thirty seconds now, and folders are hanging for 15 seconds apiece. My boot time shot up to at least five minutes—and look, normally I’m booting in about 60 seconds because my macOS is installed on a Hard Drive, but clearly, this isn't the culprit here. It honestly feels like the thing is on its deathbed. Right this second, I'm frantically trying to move my most critical files onto a thumb drive, but I'm stuck with these agonizing speeds of maybe 208 KB/s.
Basically, the whole thing just chokes whenever I try to copy or load anything off it, though otherwise, it stays quiet and the light goes dark. Like I said, everything else feels totally normal since the OS is sitting on the Hard Drive, which is behaving itself just fine.
That drive is packed with everything under the sun, stuff I absolutely cannot afford to lose, so I'm begging for answers to a couple of things:
- Is it actually dead? This thing has been running pretty much non-stop for two years (I rarely shut the PC down, though it usually idles at night) without a single hiccup until now.
- Why on earth is the boot process so slow if the macOS is loading from the Hard Drive?
- How am I supposed to move hundreds of gigabytes over to an external drive when the transfer speeds are this criminally slow?
I'm not even losing sleep over the hardware itself. These things have a shelf life, and clearly, this one hit the expiration date. I'll just go out and grab a new one, easy peasy. But losing all my data? That would be a straight-up catastrophe, and right now, I have no clue how to rescue it when the speed is practically non-existent.
It went from running perfectly fine to basically crawling through molasses in a single instant. That red activity light just went absolutely haywire, staying lit up constantly like it was possessed. Even opening the most pathetic, tiny little file takes like thirty seconds now, and folders are hanging for 15 seconds apiece. My boot time shot up to at least five minutes—and look, normally I’m booting in about 60 seconds because my macOS is installed on a Hard Drive, but clearly, this isn't the culprit here. It honestly feels like the thing is on its deathbed. Right this second, I'm frantically trying to move my most critical files onto a thumb drive, but I'm stuck with these agonizing speeds of maybe 208 KB/s.
Basically, the whole thing just chokes whenever I try to copy or load anything off it, though otherwise, it stays quiet and the light goes dark. Like I said, everything else feels totally normal since the OS is sitting on the Hard Drive, which is behaving itself just fine.
That drive is packed with everything under the sun, stuff I absolutely cannot afford to lose, so I'm begging for answers to a couple of things:
- Is it actually dead? This thing has been running pretty much non-stop for two years (I rarely shut the PC down, though it usually idles at night) without a single hiccup until now.
- Why on earth is the boot process so slow if the macOS is loading from the Hard Drive?
- How am I supposed to move hundreds of gigabytes over to an external drive when the transfer speeds are this criminally slow?
I'm not even losing sleep over the hardware itself. These things have a shelf life, and clearly, this one hit the expiration date. I'll just go out and grab a new one, easy peasy. But losing all my data? That would be a straight-up catastrophe, and right now, I have no clue how to rescue it when the speed is practically non-existent.