Freeeeeezing Hard Drive

Hello. I need some advice on what could be wrong with one of my hard drives. I say one because the other hard drive that's running windows xp is functioning properly, but my other hard drive I use for storage has problems writing large amounts of data at once.
Like over 80GB or something. Whether I'm downloading a large "rar" file to the hard drive, or copying files from one hard drive to this one, it will always write the data slowly and always end up freezing before it finishes.
I've even tried defragmenting and it froze at 27%!

So what do you think? is it a piece of crap hard drive? should I try replacing the sata cable? Thanks

Oh, I thought this was a reference to placing the hard drive in the freezer to boost performance.  Try that.