Slow read/write speeds and constant beach balls. Failing HD or could it be something else?

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Slow read/write speeds and constant beach balls. Failing HD or could it be something else?

I have mid 2012 13" Macbook Pro. I started getting constant beach balls about a week ago. I've ran disk verify and it came back OK. I ran disk repair and permission repair, neither fixed the problem. I checked the disk speed and I'm getting within the range of 20 or 30 mb/s for the r/w speeds. I did a one pass over the entire HD with zeroes and reinstalled OSX, still have the problem. So before I order a new drive that I really don't have the money for, could this problem possibly be caused by anything else? Such as a failure of the SATA cable? How would I test something like this?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Mar 17, 2014 7:40 AM

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Linc Davis

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Mar 17, 2014 11:55 AM in response to Jonah-B

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar.

Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).

When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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