I've been watching Task Manager while my hard drive does stuff like when I'm reciving data while torrenting, when I'm ripping bluray files, ect, and it seems to be sometimes hitting 500ms response times (usually under 75 most of the time), explorer seems to stop responding sometimes, MakeMKV seems to drop to X0.1 speeds and then go back up to X6.5 speeds.
Is this a sign of my hard drive kicking the bucket? I've had it for a few years, and I honestly can't afford to replace it or back it up to another drive right this moment.
Typically, I'm working with multi-gigabyte files... Bluray rips, or whole series of shows. I currently have 3.3TB of Media stored on it, and it would suck to loose years of collecting
For context I'm using a Seagate BarraCuda 6 TB (ST6000DM003-2CY186), which states GOOD in CrystalDiskMark. I use a Fanxiang S101 2TB SSD as well, which also states GOOD with a 100%, although the HDD doesn't say a health percentage.
Should I be torrenting or doing intensive tasks to an SSD and copying over to store? Ripping to my SSD, renaming in FileBot and then copy over to store on my HDD? Should I take extra precausions to ensure it doesn't die before I can afford to get another or a bigger drive?
Thanks for any advice!