Please help diagnose a problem with my computer. The computer was acting strangely getting very slow and pausing for apparently no reason at times. I downloaded some performance utilities and found that the system memory, etc. seemed to be in line with comparables. the one area that definitely showed a problem was the hard Drives' sequential read performance. It was about 10% of what it should be. Write was fine, but read was bad. Do you think this is a hard drive issue or a controller one? I was wondering if I should try to put the hard drive on another IDE channel or try an internal IDE controller or opt to try a new hard drive and waste a day ghosting the drive to a new one? Any advice or method to troubleshoot would be appreciated.