My Passport is Sloooow

[79adam79]

My passport drive suddenly became insanely slow. It didn’t fall or get hit, just suddenly stopped working properly. It takes a really long time for files to show up in the finder and video files lag. I can transfer files off the disk successfully, but transferring anything onto the disk fails with an error about files not reading or writing properly. In the Mac Disk Utiity I ran the Verify Disk and both partitions were reported to be OK. However, in the Smartware app both Quick SMART Status and Quick Drive Test fail. I’ve tried buying a new cable, but this did not fix the problem. The USB ports work fine with the other ext HD I own. Any suggestions?

thanks,
Adam

[decider]

I would suggest copying while you can to a different drive.  Seems those diagnostics are telling you something about the future fate of that hard drive. 

[79adam79]

I’ve tried copying files to another HD (atleast what will fit). Most of the time it works, but then there’ll be a file that won’t transfer cuz of the file can’t be read or written error. Although when I open it, the video works but lags, same as the files that transfer w/o error.

Even those in Disk Utility verify disk comes out ok, maybe I should run repair disk anyways and see what happens. I’ve just been hesitant to run it cuz I’m afraid I’ll lose files if I do… although I’m not sure there’s even that risk when running repair disk.