Acer Aspire Notebook - Dying Hdd ?

Hello Geeks !! So I'm experiencing problems with my ACER ASPIRE NOTEBOOK ( 5750 ) with WIN8.
Basically I've been using it for Audio & Music recording for the last 5 years, and it always worked pretty nicely for being a budget product....

But I'm having specific problems lately, related to HDD Access Time it seems from scanning with Crystal Disk Info.

1) Firefox started working soooo slowly to open pages, I had to uninstall it and put Opera instead. Tried everything,even older versions of Firefox, but it basically stopped opening pages (endless loading time)

2) Stuttering performance with Cubase / Reaper, ESPECIALLY WITH MIDI . Tried all possible midi drivers out there, 3 different USB Audio interfaces, still Midis won't play perfectly in time.

I'VE TRIED DEFRAGGING and HDD Scan software, and it found 2 corrupted sectors IIRC

You might ask yourself why I still use MIDI, well I've been using it since the SoundBlaster time and I prefer it to VST Instruments because it's so quick.

I use it with Band in a Box, PowerTab, Guitar Pro and Reaper, and it used to have tight timing.
Would really appreciate some suggestions on what to do. I've already made a Backup with an External Drive
and I've got a new WIN7 installation disk ( the computer had WIN7 pre installed and I have a KEY )

Crystal Disk Info Report attached.

My specs :

ACER ASPIRE 5750
Intel Core i 3 2310M
Intel Hd Graphics 3000
4 GB DDR3
500 GB HDD WDC WD 5000 BPVT

WIN8 PRO

MOTU MICROBOOK Audio Interface

 

Please change CrystalDiskInfo's Lingua to English.

 

Sure, here it is . Thanks for your answer

 

The HDD is failing as indicated by the Current Pending Sector Count in CrystalDiskInfo.
Replace it.

 

Wow.... That really sucks. I was hoping that a Hard Format could re-allocate the damaged sectors ( defrag showed 2 or 3 RED sectors ). I will replace it then. Thanks for your help !

 

Excellent, thank you. That was the same brand I was looking at, BTW should I look for SATA 2 for my pc ? My chipset is i3 instead of i6 as stated in the link you provided (guess it's an older version of computer and it had the i3 ? ), so should I go with the MX500 SATA 2 instead of SATA 3 ?

 

Check if the motherboard supports SATA 3.

 

Thanks a lot for your help