I shut off the external and turned it back on. Resumed the downloads, they worked fine.
Shortly after the downloads were done I went to extract them..only to realize that it was going to take roughly 77 hours to extract a 6gig rar (HAH!). I tried copying over the rar to my desktop..102 hours to move it. Tried a few other things after that, all of which saying that my HD is, in fact, dying
It's a 1TB hd with a shitload of stuff on it..stuff I didn't really plan on losing. Luckily I do have backups of most of my important stuff, however it still SUCKS to lose all of my music, torrents, movies, downloads, etc. Everything I would download would go onto my external, so if I needed it again in the future I already had the install file...Not anymore!
I also tried taking the HD out of the external and putting it inside. Same problems.
I looked up the model of my HD and realized that there have been a TON of reports of people claiming that this HD was defective. It's a Seagate HD and Seagate did confirm that the firmware of the HD was defective and was causing lockups. I checked my firmware..and of course it's already the newest one out, meaning that it's a hardware problem and not a firmware problem.
*Sigh*. I lost over half my storage and roughly the same of my files..Gahhhh
