Don't think there's anything wrong with the hard drive. The unit's seen very little use and it's been doing this as long as I can remember. If it was a bad HD, it would have failed by now. On Windows systems, hard drive thrashing is caused by too little RAM. I'm inclined to believe the OS/firmware is at fault.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Don't think there's anything wrong with the hard drive. The unit's seen very little use and it's been doing this as long as I can remember. If it was a bad HD, it would have failed by now. On Windows systems, hard drive thrashing is caused by too little RAM. I'm inclined to believe the OS/firmware is at fault.