Can't identify the problem with my HDD

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I have a Seagate Barracuda 120 GB SATA HDD 8mb buffer
I just started using it as a primary HDD a few days ago, This HDD is taken out from a Dell desktop, My friend told me that Dell told him this HDD is not OK. But he didn't wanna waste it it is still working.

Anyway I'm working on it as a primary HDD now and it's fine but I can feel that it is somewhat slower than my WD 80GB IDE HDD 2mb buffer.
And sometimes it lags when I copy stuff I hear the mp3 lags.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that when I tried to repartition it when it first came, It gave me some error when I tried to make extended partitions, so I ended up making it just one primary partition.
Also the it is louder than my WD, It's annoying. I feel like I'm working on an HDD from the 90s

Any Idea how I could identify the problem !!
 
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I tried to run the quick test but it said it skipped it, or faild.
I will try to run the full test after a few hours before I go to sleep and I will post results tomorrow morning.
 
OK I tried the full test and it also fails, but it just says failed it doesn't give me any more info.
 
That probably means the drive is close to failing or has partially failed, are there any SMART errors on it?

Also, I can't hear either of my Seagate SATA drives.
 
Here's the status from everest
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HD tune looks fine, the burst rate is slow but otherwise it's fine. I'd think a cache problem would show up on one of the tests you ran (plus burst is faster than the max read so it would appear it's working just not well).

It's a SATA drive but it doesn't seem to be running at SATA speeds. It looks like it is set to ATA100. That may be a motherboard thing, I don't know.
 
Yea may be HDD tune gets stuff wrong
At some point during the test I noticed this, so I took a screen shot
10 C ???? come on !
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But being set to ATA won't make it loud !!! and also I still don't know why the Seagate test fails !
 
The loudness might just be the drive model. It's a 7200.7 series which apparently generate ~40dBA. My 7200.9/7200.10 were tested at ~29dBA.

It being 10C has to be a bad sensor or bad reading. I notice it's only off when you are on that error scan tab, so that may be a HD tune bug.

I don't know why the seagate test failed. It'd be nice if the tool gave you an error code, talking to seagate support may be the best option for that one.
 
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