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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 899145" data-attributes="member: 24098">Interesting.&nbsp; I'm also seeing really heavy memory usage out of Firefox - 250MB on average.&nbsp; And the beachballs are intermittent.&nbsp; For the past hour or so, it really hasn't happened.&nbsp; Not sure what the deal is. As an aside, I've swapped hard drives recently (I had swapped out my Seagate for a WD, but then had some issues with the WD and swapped back to the Seagate).&nbsp; Just recently, I ran a SMART check on the Seagate and came back with this:<img src="http://home.comcast.net/~cwa107/forumimages/2009-09-01_2240.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Although it passes the test overall, I'm concerned with what I'm seeing here and am starting to wonder if this drive is on a slow decline.&nbsp; Especially considering the poor performance relative to the WD (which is on its way back to NewEgg for issues with vibration).&nbsp; Oh well, I didn't mean to hijack this thread, sorry guys.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 899145, member: 24098"] Interesting. I'm also seeing really heavy memory usage out of Firefox - 250MB on average. And the beachballs are intermittent. For the past hour or so, it really hasn't happened. Not sure what the deal is. As an aside, I've swapped hard drives recently (I had swapped out my Seagate for a WD, but then had some issues with the WD and swapped back to the Seagate). Just recently, I ran a SMART check on the Seagate and came back with this: [IMG]http://home.comcast.net/~cwa107/forumimages/2009-09-01_2240.png[/IMG] Although it passes the test overall, I'm concerned with what I'm seeing here and am starting to wonder if this drive is on a slow decline. Especially considering the poor performance relative to the WD (which is on its way back to NewEgg for issues with vibration). Oh well, I didn't mean to hijack this thread, sorry guys. [/QUOTE]

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