Whats wrong with my HDD ?

[Dipen01]

Hi,

I have couple of HDD's and the performance of Read/Write is deteriorating day by day. So i ran few tests with HDTach and HDTune.

And was worried by the results. Well i dont know much about the specs. But most of the values were above "WORST" when tested with HD Tune. :(

Also my Hitachi T7K250 is supposed to be Sata II and the values i got with HDTach are pretty worrisome. Besides Data Transfer has been pretty slow since long time.
Can anyone please check the values and confirm is something is wrong or what can be done to improve these. My 250 GB has died once and it caused me a lot of trouble,also lost my precious data. Dont want the repeat of that. :(


1)

This is my Primary HDD :

Name: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 (SATA II)
Model No: HDT722525DLA380
Cache Size: 8 MB
CPU: Intel E6300 @1.86 GHz
Chipset: MSI Neo-F
OS : Win XP SP2+


HDTach :-

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3590/hdtach250gbwq3.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtach250gbwq3.jpg)

HD Tune :-

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/862/hdtune250gbni5.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtune250gbni5.jpg)

(Shouldn't this drive support 3.0GB/s ?? )


2)

Name: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (SATA I)
Model No: ST3160827AS
Cache Size: 8 MB
CPU: Intel E6300 @1.86 GHz
Chipset: MSI Neo-F
OS : Win XP SP2+


HDTach :-

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6428/hdtach160gbzc7.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtach160gbzc7.jpg)

HD Tune :-

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5042/hdtune160gbbg1.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtune160gbbg1.jpg)



Thanx,