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Hard drive going bad?
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BrianBaughn
macrumors G4
TechTool Pro is pretty good about detecting bad blocks on a drive. If it passed the long scan then I'd say there's nothing wrong with the drive itself.
What is the issue that makes you think there might be a problem?
What is the issue that makes you think there might be a problem?
Sometimes Mac is sluggish however it's only 5400 RPM running mavericks on a 6GB Ram late 2009 MacBook. Also I have to reset the SMC every 2-3 months due to the fan always running and never going below 6200 RPM.
Altemose
macrumors G3
Just being sluggish doesn't necessarily mean HDD failure. When you say sluggish do you mean constant beach balling?
When it first boots up it usually is a little slow, but after everything has loaded it seems to be fine.
Macman45
macrumors G5
Ram and age are your issues I think. You could add an SSD which will really kick the performance up a lot. Not sure what the 2009 RAM max is but that's another road you could look at.
Your major bottleneck is the HDD and the RAM
Altemose
macrumors G3
MCAsan
macrumors 601
Consider making a preemptive strike. Replace the HD with an SSD. While you have the hood open upgrade to 8GB of memory. You will get max performance from the machine and not have a spinning HD that will sooner or later crash.
When you decide to replace the machine with a new model, you can remove the SSD and put a newer pre-Retina machine or in an external USB enclosure.
When you decide to replace the machine with a new model, you can remove the SSD and put a newer pre-Retina machine or in an external USB enclosure.