[CUBE] Disk failing? Please advise

[Gnarlodious]

What's that?

Entity Don Linares spoke thus:

> Have you tried optimizing the HD?

>> My disk read/write time seems to me getting longer and longer all the
>> time.
>> When I reboot in verbose mode I get a lot of "Waiting for local disks"
>> messages.
>> 
>> Am I on the right track here? Do I need a new HD? Is this a typical
>> failure
>> trend?
>> Any way to troubleshoot this more accurately?