Possible that HDD is going?

[nydennis]

Bought my 2011 Mini in Nov 2011. Moved Stock 500gb HDD to secondary and installed SSD as main.

on the Stock HDD, the last few days at random times if I am watching a video (any video) with MplayerX or VLC the video will freeze every few seconds. Once it starts it doesn't stop. When I reboot or bring computer out of sleep mode it will work fine for 10-15 minutes before the problem starts happening again.

Had a similar problem when I was downloading a video to the same drive and playing a video. If I stopped the video from downloading the playing video would not freeze.

Any thoughts on if it could be the HDD having problems or potential problems? I ran verify, and Disk Warrior and found nothing wrong.

 

[JAT]

Check Activity Monitor. You probably have some background app running and stealing cycles.

 

[Lancer]

Check Activity Monitor. You probably have some background app running and stealing cycles.

+1

But as always backup just in case, with cheap 2Tb HDDs around it's much better to spend a few dollars on a backup than trying to recover lost files.

 

[nydennis]

I'll check it out to see what is happening.

that could affect one HDD and not the other as the main HDD doesn't have this problem