2:13 is my favorite 4 the same reason

The wine also corrupts and destroys more sectors every time! :)

Agreed

Yaknow. Before the clip even came I knew which HDD brand you were referring to and I agree with the horn sound. I loved it.

yeah for one photo

Good luck You would need it

Now I had to watch the whole video to find out which one..

@@mr.choice86 and ill have to do the same! can someone link a timestamp for this thing?!

@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 I dont remember but I liked the initializing of 8:48 even more

Got a bunch of these old drives (many were already dead), and can confirm that they are extremely sensitive.

@@enterchannelname7568 Interesting! Can you make a video of them? What is the failure mode on them?

@@cdos9186 Unfortunately I don't have them anymore (sorry if I made it seem that way in the comment), but most of the drives suffered from heads clicking repeatedly and others had pretty bad scraping sounds. I'm not really an expert and didn't know too much about them. A family member owned a small internet provider in the late 90s and early 2000s. They didn't clean out a warehouse that had a bunch of old computers from their office until years after closing. It seems that they bought many of these drives for their PCs. Edit: yeah they still used pretty old hardware in some of their PCs. I remember the brand because I didn't know samsung made hard drives until then.

​@@enterchannelname7568 That sucks because those Samsung drives are fairly rare now. Better yet I've never heard one fail but that sounds pretty bad. Would've been nice if you still had them to see the inside of one.

Fact Then there's that western Digital boi that beats seagate with 1 megabyte of more capacity

@doomer37 After seeing a couple of your videos including a hard drive collection video, I wanted to ask you how you use your SCSI drives. I can't seem to find anything anywhere. I have Serial attached SCSI (SAS), and 60-pin SCSI. (60-pin looks exactly like 80-pin, but smaller. It's also called Ultra-3 SCSI) If you were to be able to help me out, I need to get one for a hard drive collection video I'm gonna do.

@@Stay_alert Well firstly SAS is a completely different standard than SCSI. I don't have a controller for that. I do have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI card for PCI. So far it's been able to interface with every SCSI drive I own. You can even boot from it.

@@doomer37 Okay, where can I get one? Also, are you sure it's 60-pin?

@@Stay_alert There's no 60 pin, there is 68 pin though. it has a 50 and 68 connector, I use an adapter to use 80 pin SCSI. I'd recommend ebay.

@@doomer37 Okay. I know you said you don't have any of the other SCSI, but can you help me find something for that too? PS: Thanks for the advice. I'm kinda new to this stuff. ' '^

Only three AFAIK. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba.

​@@lonely.toasterand samsung

Yeah those HGST take a long time to spin down, they have 5 platters in them

Tiens un français 🙂🙂

Actually that medal goes to the Seagate ST-351A/X at 1:25 :)

could also be a degrading platter. those Malaysia Western Digital drives are known for being pretty terrible in general, so it could be a combination of both!

@@XLGaming The Malaysia ones always ran too hot, resulting in head failures, PCB failures and media degradation.

I think it's cling wrap. I can't see any lines indicating tape.

@@randomyt666 He uses clear DVD cases I believe he said that in a comment on one of his newer videos.

Same here. My ludicrously fragmented and slow boot drive. But it's more masked by the fan noise...

Well, it was fragmented, but when defragmented, it's pretty fast. Haven't fully defragmented my drive, but it already boots twice as fast.

I think there isn't really nothing on there, bet most was formatted

it seems like some of the most reliable hardrives are from either western digital, or seagate, at least when it comes to the more modern ones.

My 250GB WD drive has 31000 power on hours, still 0 failures or bad sectors.

I'm not sure what drive you mean, but on most drives there's one or multiple screws hidden under the labels. Most drives use T8 torx screws to hold the cover in place (but not always, and sometimes the screws under the labels are using a different size bit)

some people say it's very rare to find one

I ran into one in the wild here in Canada, but only once.

@@mikixyz123 I've just been given a pile of them by a friend at a computer shop, very thin, half the height of a normal drive. Be interesting to see how many still work

It's just like any kind of hobby/collection. Is it worth it, probably not, do I enjoy messing with old drives and listening to their sounds? Yes I do, so I don't really care if it is not worth the money.

I feel like it adds authenticity.

@@Stay_alert me too

I'm pretty sure that happened on another drive, at 3:12.

4:15 as well.

@@Stay_alert yeah i missed

I don't really know how to explain well but every drive is split in sectors that each hold 512 bytes of data (4KB on some modern drives) and all have an unique adress. It's used to be able to find where the data is on the drive, when you store a file the file system records the adress of the sectors that file uses to be able to find it again. When I'm mentionning bad sectors it means that some sectors on the drive are not able to store data properly anymore.

It uses the wind generated by the spinning platters to unlock the heads. Otherwise they can’t move in transit

@@sneugler I'm surprised. thanks

The amount of storage in some cheap laptops with eMMC is ridiculous, they are basically making brand new ewaste.

@@arnlol yeah, I'm gonna get an older used computer for cheaper than the laptop and have better specs than 2007 specs.

Hard drive sectors are planted with magnetic particles that flip when stimuled by the magnetic field of the heads, a bad Sector can be caused by old Age, phisical shock, too much use, boot Sector viruses, PBC issues and heat😊

And if you use your hard drive for very long periods at once , that can also cause bad sectors