Hello all!
Basically the title, I was just wondering if file transfer uses RAM because I was copying files over from my External Harddrive to my internal and lets just say the process was very...weird.
While transferring files from my external to my main harddrive at times would cause my pc to hang, almost like a freeze, then come back, the transfer rate would go from 30mb/s to 100kb's...stay at that speed for a while, no noises from my hard drive, lock up the pc, then continue as normal. This happened a few times then eventually my pc crashed. Could this indicate a problem with the harddrive?
I'm trying to narrow down whether these are symtoms of a failing hard drive or ram, granted my RAM is brand new and my Harddrive is very very old now. I'm not making it the culprit despite its age (almost 10 years but not used 24/7, i had another drive) because I did scans of it from HD Tune pro and nothing came up. I'm also using it as we speak and other then downloads taking a bit to start and sometimes task manager taking a bit to start everythign is going good, not great, but good. I'm going to run Hard Disk Sentinel again and see if anything comes up, I read its a really good diagnosis tool.
Thank you
TLDR: PC crashed during a 60gb file transfer from Externel to Internal, trying to determine what hardware may be faulty.
Basically the title, I was just wondering if file transfer uses RAM because I was copying files over from my External Harddrive to my internal and lets just say the process was very...weird.
While transferring files from my external to my main harddrive at times would cause my pc to hang, almost like a freeze, then come back, the transfer rate would go from 30mb/s to 100kb's...stay at that speed for a while, no noises from my hard drive, lock up the pc, then continue as normal. This happened a few times then eventually my pc crashed. Could this indicate a problem with the harddrive?
I'm trying to narrow down whether these are symtoms of a failing hard drive or ram, granted my RAM is brand new and my Harddrive is very very old now. I'm not making it the culprit despite its age (almost 10 years but not used 24/7, i had another drive) because I did scans of it from HD Tune pro and nothing came up. I'm also using it as we speak and other then downloads taking a bit to start and sometimes task manager taking a bit to start everythign is going good, not great, but good. I'm going to run Hard Disk Sentinel again and see if anything comes up, I read its a really good diagnosis tool.
Thank you
TLDR: PC crashed during a 60gb file transfer from Externel to Internal, trying to determine what hardware may be faulty.