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Alright, thanks for the advice. I presumed SeaTools was a general purpose app for all types of drives, however it did cross my mind that it could be something do with having a hybrid. I'll have to do a bit of research on both of the applications.

I'll give the fixed values for virtual memory a shot; I don't think I've tried that in the past. It's a hybrid drive, so the 8gb cache is built in. Also looking at the wiki page, Spin Retry Count is a problem area. In Speccy's test results the values for spin retry count are 138(100) and according to the page a lower raw value is better. I was under the impression that the bracketed value is what it currently reports and the first number is a manufacturing threshold, is that correct? Does this mean that my drive is performing better than the threshold in that particular statistic, or is it the opposite? Could this be why I'm getting a warning status?

Hi Derek, yep 80 GB, I know that it's FAR more than I would ever need. I set it that high experimentally to see if any of the problems improved, although I don't think it made a difference. I've tried various solutions from disabling the page file altogether, to setting virtual memory to match my RAM (12GB min, 24 max) in the past, but there was no improvement.

I was hoping maybe someone could enlighten me on what might be wrong with my computer. I've been having numerous problems, most of which I think are Hard Drive related for half a year now. Been getting a 100% Disc Usage problem where the entire OS grinds to a halt (although its been this way from the first day I got my laptop), even typing in a text box has significant input lag. This happens usually when running HD intensive tasks like program installs, virus scans and for a few minutes after boot up upon logging on. As far as I can tell this is a wide spread problem amongst some windows 8 and 7 users, so I'm not sure If it could be hardware related and all of the recommended solutions provided on other forums haven't helped at all. I've also been getting out of memory errors specifically when running games; Dishonoured, Bioshock Infinite and Bioshock 2 most recently have triggered the error numerous times after running for about an hour or two. I have virtual memory set to 80 GB on top of the 12Gb of RAM I have installed which is way past overkill. I understand this may not be the best place to ask about these problems, but I was also wondering if a Speccy report could shed light on the subject. When I go to the hard drive tab I get a warning status under S.M.A.R.T, although I don't know how to interpret the report properly. I've also ran SeaTools several times over a period of a few months and the Short Drive Self Test consistently reports a fail the first time and a pass every subsequent testing In summary, please see the screenshot attached and if possible provide an explanations to why I'm getting a warning status. Could the warning status also be responsible for the disc usage and memory problems and should I replace the hard drive? Also is the SeaTools result anything to worry about? Thanks in advance for any help. System Spec: Sony VAIO S15 laptop Windows 8.1 64bit 12GB RAM 1TB Toshiba SSHD (8gb SSD caching) Intel Core i7 at 2.2ghz. Nvidea GeForce GT 640M LE 2GB Screenshot (full size rather than thumbnail): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxdGchOidaAMcy1aMk16VUhZMkE/edit?usp=sharing