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Can a damaged hard drive slow down a computer? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My mother's laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work.

Would changing the hard drive do any good?

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[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Is the hard drive failing and constantly blocking reads and writes? Maybe, check the SMART data.

Is the cooler full of hair/fur/dust and clocking the CPU down? Maybe, look at the thermals etc.

If you don't diagnose issues you are just guessing and potentially wasting money replacing parts that are fine.