Is my hdd starting to die?

[TheOuterOne]

My laptop was really slow, so I decided to have a look within taskmanager. Well, here's a bit of disk usage for you:

I'm not extremely happy with this. It's not just Skype, other program's give exactly the same result, if not worse. Restart doesn't help, at just 0.5 mb/s it's already on like 97-100% disk usage. Is my HDD starting to die? It's only a month old! I'm using the Asus N56VB, 750gb hdd.

This laptop has been RMA'd about a month ago, that explains why the hdd is just a month old. The mobo was dead, has been replaced and they replaced the hdd too, making me have to put all my files back. That's another story though :/

HELP MEEE

 

[QuietOne]

Try reseating the HDD. It may not work but I had a similar problem with my storage drive, SATA3 and transferring files at around 500Kb/s. I reseated the SATA power and data cables and it's been fine ever since.

 

[TheOuterOne]

Hm, I'll try. I'm using a laptop so I don't have any cables to reseat, but I'll take out the hdd and put it back in again. If this helps, was the problem a bad connection?

 

[QuietOne]

Mine was. But my case had one of those stupid hot swap cage in the side of the case and the SATA power and data cables were hard wired into a multi connector thing for easy HDD removal and vice versa.

I have a new case now and my storage drive is connected normally and never had any problems since.

 

[Remmy]

I'd try reseating the hard drive too. It may be obvious, but was there a scan being done at the time? Have you tried measuring the hard drive speeds with something like CrystalDiskMark to see if it's actually going really slowly?

(Yay, I'm in your screenshot!)

 

[TheOuterOne]

No, I currently do not have any anti-virus program installed (I know I should). I'll try reseating the hdd this afternoon, I'll let you know if it helps.
Haven't tried CrystalMark yet, but Windows works very slow when the hdd according to task manager is on 100%.

(Yay, I'm in your screenshot!)

Hehe.

EDIT:
Doesn't look like it has done anything, but I am planning on replacing it with an SSD anyway. The hdd will then replace my dvd drive with a hdd-caddy.

Thanks for the help everyone