Shilpa Perera agreed considering if it follows like just a decade or so ago someday soon there will be petabyte hdd’s and we will be thinking back on 1tb drives and wondering how we ever used one that small. I still remember getting a pc with 1mb hdd and thinking it was massive and its ram was in the kilobytes.
@@nathnathn True be told, I hate transfering hdds cause at the moment, it takes a few days to copy all my files to do a total backup! I have to make sure that a single hdd can last over 5 years and fit all my use cases and in such a time period. What if I decide to do particle simulations and get a 2 TB cache?
I have my 2TB Seagate for 5 years now, I don't fucking understand why people still are even buying 1TB, isn't it like a joke price difference? it sure was a joke back when I was buying it and it was harder times because it was few months right after Taiwan flood.
@@BITCOIlN im about to buy a 2nd 2tb ssd for my laptop, games are too big these days edit: also, the price is pretty liner, like 150 for a 1tb ssd, 300 for 2tb ssd.
@@bradhaines3142 not even close to linear, 2tb is like 50% more and 3tb 100% more (compared to 1tb). Depending on the store, 3tb or 4tb has the best value
@@Henrix1998 dont know where youre looking, im seeing 4tb for 600$, which is still linear. so thats definitely not true i guess it could be severely affected by region though
I hoard my games lol. I keep a 2tb sata SSD for all the games I currently play/play often I have a 512gb nvme SSD for os and software 256gb nvme SSD for linux and I keep 2 6tb HDD external drives for all the games I no longer play so I don't have to redownload later if I decide I wanna play again. And I have another 2tb HDD external drive for movies pictures and important documents. Lol my games take up 75% of my drives combined I have 16.7TB of storage.
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!! Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK. MINIUMUM 10 TB UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH !!!!
Welcome back to "Linus answers frequent tech questions with 'It Depends'". Seriously tho, someone should make a compilation of linus saying 'it depends' or sentences similar to that.
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!! Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK. MINIUMUM 10 TB UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =) !!!!
A simple solution. Unfortunately, things get a bit trickier when you're doing fancy stuff like raid arrays where you can't just drop in a bigger hdd and copy everything over
@@dstarfire42 Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Cloud Storage the huge? I thought not. It's not a story the Hard drive would tell you. It's an Internet legend.
@@SupasChef Damn. I was going to make jokes about Win10. Like "Didn't you forget to add 0 after 6?" or something. But then I checked the actual size of my Windows folder and realized that it's just about 11 Gb after 2,5 years. That's actually pretty good, I'd say.
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!! Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK. MINIUMUM 10 TB UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =)
@@adamjones120w I know. Still. My phone is from 2014; seeing as how much more high-resolution modern phones are I imagine RAWs get to a similar size (also I'm still used to only having 32GB of storage on my phone for literally everything I need on the go).
@@DesertCookie you might as well down sample those to a smaller resolution, tbh. Sensors that physically small can't realistically resolve any more than 4mp or so
Never use very large capacity drives for all your data; like 12TB drives. I learned that the hard way during data recovery. My wallet is crying. Separate all your data into smaller drives.
I feel like those large drives aren‘t really „ready“ for things like these now. I remember when 1-4tb were an absolute mess when it came to recovery. And now it‘s no problem at all. I think everything under 10tb (or maybe even 10tb itself) are completely fine for recovery.
@@flarbles7631 Id not really pick it as the visually most advanced game on the market right now, especially since they didnt change a thing about the graphics since it launched.
@@Nemenis it depends. Do u play any AAA game or use any heavy resource-demanding software? if not, switch. But the ideal is still to keep both (if u got the space in ur laptop). Znd also make sure u make an iso of ur system in order to reinstall it if u switch drives.
It really depends on what you do. I do lots of things with videos, pictures, games and other stuff and download very often. Probably the most biggest things that take up my drive is, flight simulator 2020, screen recordings for over an hour, mp4 files from my camera, unreal 5 and much more. So I used up 1.8 tb in 5 months.
i assume the issue mainly is windows 10 being a spying io eating piece of shit rather than steam. i would hope steam properly manages downloads, stopping everything in the background to prioritize current game download/loading times.
My first PC had a 40MB harddrive, couldn't fill that even if i wanted too. Now i've got 7,2TB total (1 SSD, 3 drives) and i keep running out of storage :D
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!! Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK. MINIUMUM 10 TB UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH :)
@@BenderBendingRodriguezOFFICIAL What? It says exactly NOTHING. Lie saying my car has 3l engine and you supposed to tell exact model and brand. Like choosing a codec would bea single option... Your 1080p60 can take 25GB... or 250MB per hour as well using OBS, not quite get it what you're trying to show...
@@raresmacovei8382 They're currently taughting a 40% increase in efficiency over HEVC but the standard is yet to be ratified. Trying to balance the benefits with how hard it is to encode and decode.
Average streaming service viewer: "I really like this show I can see myself watching it again at some point" Streaming service 2 months later (netflix, prime video, hulu etc): "hahaha you love it, we take it away hahaha" Meanwhile, here's me owning all the content I like on dvd, blu-ray, and uhd with 179tb of storage for videos, I'm no streaming service pleb. Waiting for those 18tb drives to reduce the number of drives I need at once and for backup.
@gigaheart shit's getting bit star trek TNG is 1.2 TB alone :/ also right hand of doom is likely running ZFS file system and also has backups, so not sure if those 179 TB are what he got left after backup/parities or before. either way i want 180 TB as storage too :/
@Kerem the doctor who example I gave is both the ISOs and mkv pass through. The mkv passthroughs on their own are 1.83tb. I do that for every movie and tv series (both iso and mkv passthrough rips) so I don't have to touch the discs again. Average 42 minute episode of blu-ray tv series episodes hover between 4 and 6gb. The flash for example excluding the ISOs just the mkv passthroughs are 5.3gb each.
In case of you know Nuclear War, you should save everything you can (movies,porn,hentais,doujins,games) anything. You'll get easy money after Nuclear War happened
Good rule of thumb is, you'll need about double the storage space when single as you would if you were in a relationship... and even then, it's not an absolute.
I dunno about the photo thing... One of my ex's was a model. For my birthday she made me a calendar... basically she would ask the photographer to snap a few special shots for me.. it took her like 2 or 3 months to get it done. And she also gave me a USB and hard copy of all the photos that were taken for her. It was about 4500 photos, I still have about 300 of the hard copies. I was amazed at the effort she put into it and was surprised by the number of photos and asked if she paid the photographer. She said no and that she would only get about 100 photos per shoot.. and that these photographers were taking 5000+ pictures per shoot.. so 100 or so photos didn't matter to them. So 50k files... that's like 10 shoots or less...
Damn, I'm going to keep this in mind when I build a PC lol. I think 2TB should be more than enough for my current usage. I don't play games but I am looking to do content creation.
I am currently on: 240GB SSD System drive (Also my Adobe Suite and Launchers and shit is on there) then I have a 1 TB SSD for "Mission Critical" Stuff. (GTA V, Star Citizen, Arma III) and 2 TB of Hard Drive Space. In Addition I have a 1 TB External HDD for Backups and stuff I'd need elsewhere.
Don't forget backups. A NAS with raid 5 would be a good graveyard for your media. It's no backup itself but when you have your media on your pc and once in a while you throw it on your NAS would be a good backup. Still when your house burns down, this will result in a loss. So media you still want to keep, should be on a offside location. For your photos, usually a cloud service like Dropbox would good enough. It's enough to keep compressed media there, just in case. Also a fair warning: look closely what you put on a public cloud. I would guess your nudes doesn't worth a backup at all but especially not on a public cloud. The best and probably easiest way for consumer offside backup would be a NAS at your parents house when you and them have good enough internet connection. Keep in mind that crypto viruses exist, so don't have direct access to them. Would be a shame if the virus can just connect via a drive letter to your backup and encrypt the entire content.
Just buy WD external drive and shuck it. You can get a 10TB drive under 180 bucks when you get a nice deal online. I think Linus should do a video on drive shucking.
Only problem is WD is now including drives that have a special interface that only connects with USB 3.0 micro b 10pin and not a typical sata and sata power connection
Listings are 100% accurate, you get exactly what it says on the box. It's Microsoft using wrong terminology causing confusion since 1981. Google "binary prefix" for more info, I'm too lazy to explain ...
Interesting. Something else I’d like to point out is that (at least for my case) PSD Files are very compressible, I had a 100 MB PSD file compressed into a 20 MB ZIP file, (rough estimates of course.) just to give you an idea. Of course, you can choose whether you want to wait the extra few minutes to decompress a PSD file or leave it uncompressed and not have more space for more PSD projects. I’m sure there’s at least one person who compresses and archives a whole photo project when they’re done with it and get rid of the uncompressed versions, but, you do you. Just something I’d like to share from just playing around, experimenting with stuff out of curiosity and stuff.
@@Minecraft101ToonLink I tested compression a couple years ago and found it wasn't really worth my time IF you're working with larger color spaces/smart filters. I was getting a 15-30 percent increase in storage efficiency but I'd rather just pay an extra $0.05 per image in storage. That said... If you only work in sRGB, with hard edge brushing, the efficiency can be quite good.
Lol 59GB games. They're pushing 100GB now. Also forgot the user like me that fills a drive with junk. I've got 137GB of a 3TB drive left XD Linus: Suggests 2TB harddrive now for games. Also Linus: Shows a drive that is 5400rpm
What's wrong about 5400 rpm? 7200 rpm is so 2010. For faster speeds you use a SSD. For media storage, backups etc. 5400 rpm is good enough while also running quieter and cooler.
@@symphony137 For load times, there will be a bit of difference between 7200 and 5400rpm. For games, like me not everyone has the money available to spend on a 1 or 2tb SSD. I know prices drop when capacities increase, but hard drives are always ahead when it comes to price per capacity. 5400rpm is fine for data stuff, but it tends to not be recommended for programs, games or larger files.
I bet the people buying Mac Pro already have a RAID array device hanging around. But still it's a bummer why they shipped a baseline Mac Pro with a measly 256GB of storage for $6,000.
0:11 That PC (probably not IBM-compatible) is in the range of 2 MB on floppy disks (each 1.2 MB or less). As it has two same drives, I assume it has no harddisk, but if there is one, it would be around 40 MB.
Let me be helpful..... 8tb WD elements. They are all white label drives (which are actually 5400rpm Red NAS drives) ~180mb/s and some of the lowest cost per/gb you'll find. Also easy to shuck if you want them for internal drives.
this doesn't make any sense. unless the sshd was a 2.5 inch version, theoretically an sshd should feel faster than an hdd, but all sshds are seagate dumpster versions running dirt nand. so if we ignore the garbage nand doing almost nothing, then going to a generally faster more modern hdd and having more space left on it results in a decent speed increase, because u are earlier on the hdd, or physically speaking u are farther on the outside of the hdd, the farther out u write/read on the hdd the faster. BUT it certainly doesn't compare to getting an ssd, believe me :D also glad u updated, because those seagate SSHD drives have HORRIBLE! failure rates.
@limes so u only used it for about half a year- 1 year? (not sure on your daily use) i got hdds with 25000 power on hours, with my system running 24/7 most of the time, so hard to reference if 4000 hours is a lot for u or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ either way glad u got a great speed upgrade with that hdd!
Well how much bigger you need well its seem to answer to the question but bigger doesn't always mean faster there is also some type of HDD quality some are really fast by exemple some hdd turn at 5200 rpm others 7200rpm and even more of-course the 7200rpm will beat the 5200rpm but there is also caching memory the more cache memory your hdd have the faster its will be to load all your apps, i evaluate the today need at around of 4tb and 128mb of cache and you doesn't want a slow hdd with 64mb of cache and even 128 mb will be things of the past very soon
I'm surprised you're talking about hard drives and not trying to get us all onto expensive solidstates. I currently have 2 hard drives of 2TB each. I filled one about 3/4ths, the other is a backup for anything I absolutely do not want to lose in a crash. I have a racing game I was developing in the Unity Engine and I keep a clone copy.
Simple : just buy the biggest harddrive your money can buy, because today with the advantage of high speed internet, most people can fill 1 TB drive in the matter of 1-2 months just for games or videos.
Anything was faster than my decade-old 500/640GB drives that I only recently swapped for a WD Blue 4TB 5400rpm. Platter density, cache size, and file system matters too.
I bought a 1 Tb hard drive and thought I'd be done with it. Until steam started accepting AR$ (I can buy games without a credit card)... Now I need another Tb just for backups alone, and I may run short (Rhythm games take up *A LOT OF SPACE* if you actually play)
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!! Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK. MINIUMUM 10 TB UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =) =) =) !!
@@agarthaasgardhodl8523 What do you mean with "hardware disk from the west world"? What "battle" are you talking about? Aren't all HDDs manufactured in Asia...?
Nothing is ever enough for someone who uses iMovie they need 1,000 to the 27th power of bytes for example 2 to the power of 2 = 8 so 2x2=4x2=8 just so that way you don’t get confused
MY DRIVE IS FULL OF AUTODESK SOFTWARE, ADOBE, AND GAMES. I RANT OUT FEW DAYS BACK AND THE PC WAS COMPLAINING SO I ORDERED A BIGGER ONE TWICE THE SIZE OF THE ONE I JUST FILLED UP.
@@Khloya69 well if you could find me a affordable 2TB SSD I would be very happy :P I already have a 500gb SSD and 3 HDDs that add to around 1TB, It's not enough.....
@@Khloya69 They're far from obsolete when it comes to higher capacities. Or can you explain to me how I am supposed to get 8-10 TB SSD storage? Maybe if you're shitting money.
No. I have a 1TB 970 EVO PRO for boot, common executibles, and scratch. Two 2TB Intel 660 in RAID 0 for static storage like games where loss doesn't matter but NVMe read performance is desired while also being cheap. Two 12 TB Seagate Barracuda Compute in RAID 1 for long term video storage where loss would hurt. Lastly 4GB of cloud storage for critical files. Linus didn't really help me but I sell SANs for a living.
For a Gamer: 128GB SSD for Windows and other essential software 1TB for secondary software 4TB for game storage For gamers and movies/series collectors Add 4TB for those extra And If you store your personal pics and files Add another 4TB FOR THAT NOTE: always use an encrypted HDD to store your personal files so if any virus or malware (or God forbid) RANSOMWARE attack your system your important files will be protected Enjoy and add your preference
according to the data hoarder subreddit most people looking for cheap decent storage "shuck" their drives, which means ordering external drives and getting the internal drive out of the enclosure and using that. these external drives can cost 33% -50% less than the internal ones and early on they even put the same internals in the drive without any change. this is mostly done with WD drives. so those 16 TB seagate drives won't be cheap nor value, and going by seagate's record u can expect higher failure rates. remember the good old 1.5 TB seagate :D yeah....
no actually, i had to look that up I was barely out of elementary school 10+ years ago, I don't have experience with drive quality from that era but I see the reviews from back then are overwhelmingly negative. Typically what I've seen out of various forum threads and product reviews on amazon/newegg for Seagate and Western Digital there isn't really a discernible difference on current generation drives, positive or negative. I don't doubt Seagate have a past record for their drive quality, stigmas are there for a reason, but I do not currently carry one for either company. I've only been building my own PCs for a few years here and there but out of the dozen or so Seagate drives i have barracuda, firecuda and ironwolf, and some OEM drives that shipped in my laptops i haven't personally had any issues. I haven't been in the game long enough to speak out of experience for drive failure from any company though. Drive shucking... I've never heard of that, checked it out, I find that very interesting and I've checked out that sub every once in awhile, along with r/homelab & r/freenas for some reason haven't caught the term before. I do have more to learn for I am still a novice, thank you for that lol.
@BK_Deltor it sucks a lot, that we don't have average failure rates/drive hour charts for all drives. the best we got it seems is backblaze's published experiences. www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ usually putting HGST way above seagate, with western digital almost not being on the chart, because apparently it's much harder to get volume deals on them if i remember right. hgst is of course now owned by western digital and early on they basically just renamed drives to WD from hgst it seemed in the highend helium drive tech. so really it's hard to say, BUT some stuff points a horrible picture for consumers, even though this isn't a consumer workload, like the st4000dm000 (2.74%) failing 6x more than the glorious hgst hms5c4040ble640 (0.45%). why aren't we producing more of those hgst hms5c4040ble640 drives for the average consumer??? beyond that that hgst drive is also basically completely silent (got 2 myself), with lots of people saying how annoyingly loud hdd random reads/writes can be. either way, hard to say hdd failure rates and that SUCKS! BUT seagate does more shady things, like hiding, that they sell SMR drives to consumers, and well actually selling SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drives to a consumer in general is horrible and evil. smr drives have a higher failure rate and are easier influenced by vibration, so naturally seagate sells smr drives as portable 2.5 inch drives and never mentioned the word SMR in their marketing once :D but even better smr drives slow down terribly!!! on continuous writing, we're talking beyond bad TLC slow down, so they lie about performance (writing burst not long term continuous speeds), they lie about tech used in the drive and thus they fuck consumers.
@bk_deltor on the WD side, WD sold and mostly still sells suicide drives, yes u heard that right. particularly the WD green drives, where they set a timer for parking the heads at 12 seconds or there about, with heads being designed for those drives at 300000 load/unload cycles (if i remember correctly). so at default and 24/7 use the drives would end up killing themselves VERY very soon and for the average low use consumer the drives would still kill themselves faster than average. wdidle3 is the tool used to get rid of all this useless drive killing head parking nonesense and i'm not sure if it still works on modern drives, that still have this "feature" but usually set to longer time periods like 5 minutes. so WD knowingly sold suicide hdds to consumers and kinda still does. and there is no good reason for parking the heads on idle. also seagate and WD both got rid of AAM and didn't replace it ever, AAM was used to change hdd head movement speed, which trades latency for completely silence, sth. EVERY desktop user wants. so between WD and SEAGATE these days it is kinda pick your poison, i would still prefer WD/HGST over seagate though, but they aren't both equally good, rather they are both equally anti consumer shit bad :/
You omitted one group, that used to be very popular but nowadays is (thankfully?) disappearing... or at least it was, cause now it seems to have a revival again. PIRATES! If you download a lot of music, especially in high or even lossless quality, if you download a lot of movies (especially in FHD or 4K and high FPS rates), if you download a lot of games (be it new ones that can be massively large like mentioned in the video or even with older games images of multi-disk DVD games from previous eras like PS2, or PC games from that era that will reequire you to both install the game as well as keep the image on the disk to have it mounted virtually) and so on... you want A LOT OF STORAGE, probably even those 10 terabytes... If you're not a pirate though but buy stuff legally, stuff that is tied to online digital stores and subscription services, so you don't amass a movie and music collection (instead you pay for itunes or spitify and netflix) on your disk and are happy with keeping only the most important steam titles on the disk all the time and the remainign games to rotate them (delete them and re-download when necessary), then yeah, 1TB is probably perfectly enough for most people... But then again, if you buy HDD instead of SSD then go for multi TB disks cause it's just better bang for buck most of the time and it's better to have too much than too little space. And then consider how much of your data you want to be on the storage drive and how much on your system drive, to estimate what size SSD you want... I say for most people 128GB should be, but that depends... I'm happy to be the latter but I shamefully admit that I used to be the former like a decade ago. And it amazes me how can people live with the 32GB laptops, that they're still being released and sold to people... Just wow. Even phones can have 256GB nowadays...
I use Arch Linux on a 120 GB SSD. I never run out of space. In fact, my usage stay below 35% all the time. Many distros like OpenSUSE, CentOS, RedHat may seem bloated to Arch users... But still, once installed, they will not use a huge amount of memory... On the other hand If you use winblows (especially 8 - 10), 2 TB is nothing!
Games requiring 50GB? That is cute. Some games need up to 100GB or more. I installed Infinit Warfare again and I think it took up 100GB. A friend of mine looked how big his Ark game folder is and it reached over 150GB. 1TB is more than enough if you play older or mostly indie games. But if you play new AAA games and hames with 4k visuals a lot, 1 TB is not even closely enough. If you pick the right games, you can't even fit 8 games on a 1TB disk.
Ahhh no my dude, harddrive prices aren't dropping. They haven't dropped in like 10 years. And while there may be larger storage options. The standard HD on the store shelf is 1-2TB and will run you $60-$100, maybe $50 if you catch a sale. Harddrives have been at a standstill.
as much as I want to say that "you can just re-download those games again", I can't agree with that statement... not when my internet download speed is only 1.2 MB/s max
I've been doing it 5 years and I'm up to 3tb just in photos even after deleting the less than stellar shots and its not even a full time job. I'd hate to see what kind of space a "real" photographer uses.
Line needs to do classic hardware and software and computer museums the San Francisco computer museum in. Bentley Park UK and look after classic computers for future generations. Linus is a nasty very nasty Harry Potter
My laptop currently has 2.5 gb of space left, all my stuff is in my user folder which is 20gb, my hard drive is 118gb the rest is taken up by school stuff... no not homework, but stuff like photoshop elements that I don’t use, I’m sad ☹️ It doesn’t matter tho, I have enough space for hl2 😅
Got 42TB now but are in need for more so got a NAS and 60TB WD red on the way. The most important lesson I've learnt though is to use any other brand than SeaGate since those always fail.
what sucks is the 10TB HDD xD malfunctioning and loosing 10TB worth of data... _i know my 500GB hdd xD needed repairs last week. had to download 400GB worth of data...on 2mbps_
Linus: You should only buy the amount of space that you need.
Also Linus: 100 TERABYTE LAPTOP!
That wasn't even in a laptop
That was for a server. And that still holds true. Buy what you need/want. A home user don't need 1 PB SAS and a 28 core Xeon.
Just 100 TB? That's not enough!
Shilpa Perera agreed considering if it follows like just a decade or so ago someday soon there will be petabyte hdd’s and we will be thinking back on 1tb drives and wondering how we ever used one that small.
I still remember getting a pc with 1mb hdd and thinking it was massive and its ram was in the kilobytes.
@@nathnathn True be told, I hate transfering hdds cause at the moment, it takes a few days to copy all my files to do a total backup!
I have to make sure that a single hdd can last over 5 years and fit all my use cases and in such a time period.
What if I decide to do particle simulations and get a 2 TB cache?
The question isn't IF you need a bigger hard-drive, but rather WHEN.
I have my 2TB Seagate for 5 years now, I don't fucking understand why people still are even buying 1TB, isn't it like a joke price difference? it sure was a joke back when I was buying it and it was harder times because it was few months right after Taiwan flood.
@@BITCOIlN im about to buy a 2nd 2tb ssd for my laptop, games are too big these days
edit: also, the price is pretty liner, like 150 for a 1tb ssd, 300 for 2tb ssd.
@@bradhaines3142 not even close to linear, 2tb is like 50% more and 3tb 100% more (compared to 1tb). Depending on the store, 3tb or 4tb has the best value
@@Henrix1998 dont know where youre looking, im seeing 4tb for 600$, which is still linear. so thats definitely not true
i guess it could be severely affected by region though
Henrix98
Its pretty much linear for SSDs (at least for 500GB and more)
But it is not for HDDs.
Do you NEED a bigger hard drive?
Nah, just delete some old gam-
*Gets tackled to the floor by game hoarders*
I hoard my games lol. I keep a 2tb sata SSD for all the games I currently play/play often I have a 512gb nvme SSD for os and software 256gb nvme SSD for linux and I keep 2 6tb HDD external drives for all the games I no longer play so I don't have to redownload later if I decide I wanna play again. And I have another 2tb HDD external drive for movies pictures and important documents. Lol my games take up 75% of my drives combined I have 16.7TB of storage.
like i want to delete some games as i have 30gb left but i dont as i know il want to play them at some point
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!!
Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D
THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK.
MINIUMUM 10 TB
UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH !!!!
@@lowkey3820 *laughs in 60TB home server*
If you own them , can't you get rid of the ones you rarely play and then get again if you want to play for some reason . Licenses are permanent
I just want one that doesn't die on me.
Hi newbie! Welcome to RUclips
I hope you get more than 2.5 subs one day!
@@casualphysics840 ya mean 2.5M?
Dude every hdd i touch just fucking dips on me maybe just the gamer rage
Than you need cloud storage services ... and a steady income.
Bruhh
Welcome back to "Linus answers frequent tech questions with 'It Depends'".
Seriously tho, someone should make a compilation of linus saying 'it depends' or sentences similar to that.
thats because it actually depends....
Everything depends
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!!
Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D
THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK.
MINIUMUM 10 TB
UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =)
!!!!
@@agarthaasgardhodl8523 Or just buy whatever works.
@@agarthaasgardhodl8523 a channel with no content but 960 subscribers? Seems legit.
My way of doing it is simple :
I purchase more space when I'm running out of space.
i'm doing that for close to 25 years now, started with 635MB in my very first pc
More simple. I have just 2tb and i don't need more for now
@@victrixsvs that's cute
A simple solution. Unfortunately, things get a bit trickier when you're doing fancy stuff like raid arrays where you can't just drop in a bigger hdd and copy everything over
@@dstarfire42 Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Cloud Storage the huge? I thought not. It's not a story the Hard drive would tell you. It's an Internet legend.
120-240 GB SSD for the OS
9999999+ TB for everything else
Then you never really worked with any real amount of data.
@@Piupiumacher I am pretty sure that was a joke....
i wish, seems older games wont work outside of the OS drive, so thats going to be 2tb for me
win95 - 120 MB, win98 - 240 MB, winMe-400MB, winXP-687MB, Win7-2GB, Win10-6GB...next?? 12GB and unpack to 200GB, or more???
@@SupasChef Damn. I was going to make jokes about Win10. Like "Didn't you forget to add 0 after 6?" or something. But then I checked the actual size of my Windows folder and realized that it's just about 11 Gb after 2,5 years. That's actually pretty good, I'd say.
I need a lot of space for my "homework".
And need a lot of space for your "math educational games" and "child filtered search engine".
0:27
69 TB is suggested for you.
@@sharif47 Does that much hentai exist? I sure hope so.
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!!
Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D
THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK.
MINIUMUM 10 TB
UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =)
@@agarthaasgardhodl8523 My dying Toshiba hdd would like to have a word with you
Linus:"Lets say youre a gamer"
Editors: lets put a macbook here, that will show what a gamer is.
MrWormers with its 521mb gpu
you're*
I thought it was a troll and I applauded the thinking behind that choice
RAW photos these days are more like 70-150 MB each given the greater pixel density of files produced by modern full-frame sensors
I'm happy my phone only produces RAWs of 20 to 30 MB each then. :D
@@DesertCookie I'd assume he's on about DLSR's not phones
@@adamjones120w I know. Still. My phone is from 2014; seeing as how much more high-resolution modern phones are I imagine RAWs get to a similar size (also I'm still used to only having 32GB of storage on my phone for literally everything I need on the go).
*pats my P65+ digital back* ~300mb raws
@@DesertCookie you might as well down sample those to a smaller resolution, tbh. Sensors that physically small can't realistically resolve any more than 4mp or so
Linus: we're gonna have some links in the video description
Me: *Checks Description*
Also Me: :\
where are the links?
Idk dude so freakin weird
So many youtubers do this
WERS DA LINCS
yes
I learned to day that LMG has never played ARK (170GB )
you mean "never played such an absolute shithole game called ARK" **
Or cod (up to 300gb)
*The hentai collection DEMANDS IT.* 💯
linus: games are more complex than ever!
Me: Truuuuu
also Linus: shows Overwatch during statement
Me: wut, this game can run on my wireless toilet.
@@Mattexe77 Nothing like a shock to the anus to get the poop flowing!
Guy at PC Store: How much storage are you looking for?
Me: How much porn is on the internet?
Guy at PC Store: NAS boxes are on aisle twenty.
Depend on which website ... if you talk about xnxx for example they often have 360p videos so I doubt their website weight a petabyte
69PB drive for your PR0N, assigned as drive "X" in Windows.
No. assigned as drive "H" in Windows, for "Homework"
Nice call Jacob!
Drive *P* obviously
@@nowonmetube no doubt running as an "EXT3" file system too..?
It's okay, you can say porn no one is gonna arrest you
Never use very large capacity drives for all your data; like 12TB drives. I learned that the hard way during data recovery. My wallet is crying. Separate all your data into smaller drives.
I feel like those large drives aren‘t really „ready“ for things like these now. I remember when 1-4tb were an absolute mess when it came to recovery. And now it‘s no problem at all. I think everything under 10tb (or maybe even 10tb itself) are completely fine for recovery.
@@Adeyum64 maybe so, but paying 750CDN for each of my three drives was painful.
Johnny Marvéll Yeah I feel your pain ;-;
Glad I have a WHOPPING 500+ gb Hard-drive..
:)
@@thefirstsin lol 500 isn't even enough for pictures these days. 😂
Interestingly they pick Overwatch as "visually" advanced
Hey man it looks pretty good when you max out the settings.
@@flarbles7631 Oblivion looks better th an Overwatch without texture/graphic mods. and that game is at least a decade old.
@@kairon156 i would disagree on the matter, but its all taste and i have plausible bias
@@Fanta69420 Fair enough.
@@flarbles7631 Id not really pick it as the visually most advanced game on the market right now, especially since they didnt change a thing about the graphics since it launched.
"Do You Need a BIGGER Hard Drive?"
More like "When Do You Need a BIGGER Storage Drive?"
0:27
10 GB?
1 TB?
69 TB?
What's you gonna do with 69 TB? Store more 69?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
SCUUUUUUM GAAAAANG
Should i replace my current 120gb ssd with a 1tb hdd?
@@Nemenis it depends. Do u play any AAA game or use any heavy resource-demanding software? if not, switch. But the ideal is still to keep both (if u got the space in ur laptop). Znd also make sure u make an iso of ur system in order to reinstall it if u switch drives.
@@Nemenis if your main system (windows) is on that SSD then don't do that. Everything will take forever to load
It really depends on what you do. I do lots of things with videos, pictures, games and other stuff and download very often. Probably the most biggest things that take up my drive is, flight simulator 2020, screen recordings for over an hour, mp4 files from my camera, unreal 5 and much more. So I used up 1.8 tb in 5 months.
What about speed?! Windows 10 and your entire Steam library on a single 8TB HDD will cause some serious waiting around time.
i assume the issue mainly is windows 10 being a spying io eating piece of shit rather than steam.
i would hope steam properly manages downloads, stopping everything in the background to prioritize current game download/loading times.
just ask the people on r/datahoarder
My first PC had a 40MB harddrive, couldn't fill that even if i wanted too.
Now i've got 7,2TB total (1 SSD, 3 drives) and i keep running out of storage :D
Computers had more storage when they were strapped for space. Now every company ships 8k texture files for gaming on 1080p monitors.
You should have mentioned h.264 video takes about 3-4 GB per hour at 1080p 30fps.
Mate I record using OBS daily at that resolution at 60, I only get about 2.5gb per hour.
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!!
Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D
THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK.
MINIUMUM 10 TB
UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH :)
@@BenderBendingRodriguezOFFICIAL What? It says exactly NOTHING. Lie saying my car has 3l engine and you supposed to tell exact model and brand.
Like choosing a codec would bea single option...
Your 1080p60 can take 25GB... or 250MB per hour as well using OBS, not quite get it what you're trying to show...
it depends on how compressed it is, not which resolution or which codec.
flv takes like .6 gb per hour lol
Most of techquickie videos seem to contain basic common sense advice. But I watch every one of them. Very rarely I learn something new.
That's sooooooooooo true :D
I know right... Honestly I only watch these videos because I like Linus (no homo).
@@xpforevergaming8609 Aivan varmasti olet homo :)
@@piezku En kyllä ole :P.
@@xpforevergaming8609 😂👌
I am an evangelist from the Church of HEVC, so you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour AV1.
**shuts door**
Tobechukwu Njoku În the end, is AV1 as good as HEVC in quality/size though?
@@raresmacovei8382 They're currently taughting a 40% increase in efficiency over HEVC but the standard is yet to be ratified. Trying to balance the benefits with how hard it is to encode and decode.
Average streaming service viewer: "I really like this show I can see myself watching it again at some point"
Streaming service 2 months later (netflix, prime video, hulu etc): "hahaha you love it, we take it away hahaha"
Meanwhile, here's me owning all the content I like on dvd, blu-ray, and uhd with 179tb of storage for videos, I'm no streaming service pleb. Waiting for those 18tb drives to reduce the number of drives I need at once and for backup.
179TB of storage? I hope you're backing that up somewhere or you are no better than "streaming service plebs"
@@Gigaheart of course it's backed up.
@Kerem movies and tv series. doctor who season 1-11 on dvd and blu-ray totals 4.89tb, and I have many tv series
@gigaheart
shit's getting bit
star trek TNG is 1.2 TB alone :/
also right hand of doom is likely running ZFS file system and also has backups, so not sure if those 179 TB are what he got left after backup/parities or before.
either way i want 180 TB as storage too :/
@Kerem the doctor who example I gave is both the ISOs and mkv pass through. The mkv passthroughs on their own are 1.83tb. I do that for every movie and tv series (both iso and mkv passthrough rips) so I don't have to touch the discs again. Average 42 minute episode of blu-ray tv series episodes hover between 4 and 6gb. The flash for example excluding the ISOs just the mkv passthroughs are 5.3gb each.
In case of you know Nuclear War, you should save everything you can (movies,porn,hentais,doujins,games) anything.
You'll get easy money after Nuclear War happened
Good rule of thumb is, you'll need about double the storage space when single as you would if you were in a relationship... and even then, it's not an absolute.
1h of compressed 1080p = 40GB? What? 😂
I think that might be true when capturing with nvidia software.
Ye cuz they shoot with a damn RED lmao when I shoot with my redmi note 4x 1 hour would be about 5gbs yeet
So when I have a 1080p movie at 24fps it's like 4gb, so what is it sound that's taking up the rest?
Think he meant uncompressed LOL
@@robotraider codec quality. i can output your 1080p24fps in 500mb...or 20gb
I dunno about the photo thing...
One of my ex's was a model. For my birthday she made me a calendar... basically she would ask the photographer to snap a few special shots for me.. it took her like 2 or 3 months to get it done.
And she also gave me a USB and hard copy of all the photos that were taken for her. It was about 4500 photos, I still have about 300 of the hard copies.
I was amazed at the effort she put into it and was surprised by the number of photos and asked if she paid the photographer. She said no and that she would only get about 100 photos per shoot.. and that these photographers were taking 5000+ pictures per shoot.. so 100 or so photos didn't matter to them.
So 50k files... that's like 10 shoots or less...
Damn, I'm going to keep this in mind when I build a PC lol. I think 2TB should be more than enough for my current usage. I don't play games but I am looking to do content creation.
I am currently on: 240GB SSD System drive (Also my Adobe Suite and Launchers and shit is on there) then I have a 1 TB SSD for "Mission Critical" Stuff. (GTA V, Star Citizen, Arma III) and 2 TB of Hard Drive Space. In Addition I have a 1 TB External HDD for Backups and stuff I'd need elsewhere.
@Tobias Brockmann Damn, dude. How much did you spend on your system? 😂
@@feynstein1004 I mean. The m2 was like 130 Euros. The 2TB HDD was maybe 80-100 EUros.. so that is not thaaaat expensive. overall maybe 2.5k Euros
Don't forget backups. A NAS with raid 5 would be a good graveyard for your media. It's no backup itself but when you have your media on your pc and once in a while you throw it on your NAS would be a good backup. Still when your house burns down, this will result in a loss. So media you still want to keep, should be on a offside location. For your photos, usually a cloud service like Dropbox would good enough. It's enough to keep compressed media there, just in case. Also a fair warning: look closely what you put on a public cloud. I would guess your nudes doesn't worth a backup at all but especially not on a public cloud.
The best and probably easiest way for consumer offside backup would be a NAS at your parents house when you and them have good enough internet connection. Keep in mind that crypto viruses exist, so don't have direct access to them. Would be a shame if the virus can just connect via a drive letter to your backup and encrypt the entire content.
I've recently been using an only-SSD PC, and I must say that now all hard drives are relegated to purely storage/backup
Normal games: I just need 50 gbs🙂. Modern Warfare: laughs in 200 gb update
Just buy WD external drive and shuck it.
You can get a 10TB drive under 180 bucks when you get a nice deal online.
I think Linus should do a video on drive shucking.
Only problem is WD is now including drives that have a special interface that only connects with USB 3.0 micro b 10pin and not a typical sata and sata power connection
It would be easier to tell how much disc space I needed if GB listings were more accurate.
Buy 1TB SSD > Gets 700GB of space
Listings are 100% accurate, you get exactly what it says on the box. It's Microsoft using wrong terminology causing confusion since 1981.
Google "binary prefix" for more info, I'm too lazy to explain ...
Professional photographer here.... *Glances at my 16tb of used space* Photoshop files that are each 1-3gb.... .MOS raw files that are each ~300mb...
Interesting. Something else I’d like to point out is that (at least for my case) PSD Files are very compressible, I had a 100 MB PSD file compressed into a 20 MB ZIP file, (rough estimates of course.) just to give you an idea. Of course, you can choose whether you want to wait the extra few minutes to decompress a PSD file or leave it uncompressed and not have more space for more PSD projects. I’m sure there’s at least one person who compresses and archives a whole photo project when they’re done with it and get rid of the uncompressed versions, but, you do you. Just something I’d like to share from just playing around, experimenting with stuff out of curiosity and stuff.
@@Minecraft101ToonLink I tested compression a couple years ago and found it wasn't really worth my time IF you're working with larger color spaces/smart filters. I was getting a 15-30 percent increase in storage efficiency but I'd rather just pay an extra $0.05 per image in storage. That said... If you only work in sRGB, with hard edge brushing, the efficiency can be quite good.
Ahh. Good to know! I just wanted to throw my thoughts out there for you to think about.
Lol 59GB games. They're pushing 100GB now. Also forgot the user like me that fills a drive with junk. I've got 137GB of a 3TB drive left XD
Linus: Suggests 2TB harddrive now for games.
Also Linus: Shows a drive that is 5400rpm
What's wrong about 5400 rpm? 7200 rpm is so 2010. For faster speeds you use a SSD. For media storage, backups etc. 5400 rpm is good enough while also running quieter and cooler.
@@symphony137 For load times, there will be a bit of difference between 7200 and 5400rpm. For games, like me not everyone has the money available to spend on a 1 or 2tb SSD. I know prices drop when capacities increase, but hard drives are always ahead when it comes to price per capacity. 5400rpm is fine for data stuff, but it tends to not be recommended for programs, games or larger files.
You need one for the Mac Pro with 256 GB of storage I guess?
I bet the people buying Mac Pro already have a RAID array device hanging around. But still it's a bummer why they shipped a baseline Mac Pro with a measly 256GB of storage for $6,000.
So it took five minutes just to say 'get as much space as you need'?
“3.5inch hard drive” VS “2.5 inch hard drive”
I thought this video is about that.
0:11 That PC (probably not IBM-compatible) is in the range of 2 MB on floppy disks (each 1.2 MB or less). As it has two same drives, I assume it has no harddisk, but if there is one, it would be around 40 MB.
"you don't need a bigger hard drive"
said someone who have a PETABYTE storage server.
Those are some pretty unhelpful links in the description for hard drive shopping.
Let me be helpful..... 8tb WD elements.
They are all white label drives (which are actually 5400rpm Red NAS drives) ~180mb/s and some of the lowest cost per/gb you'll find. Also easy to shuck if you want them for internal drives.
Techquickie needs a dark mode.
"With games becoming more and more complex, especially on the visual side" Shows one of the least visually complex AAA games currently on the market.
Well, he picked a less visually compelling game because he CLEARLY doesn't have enough Hard drive to demo complex games on his PC...
I’ve just upgraded to a 1TB HDD from my 500GB SSHD and the difference feels like going from a mechanical drive to a cheap SSD
this doesn't make any sense.
unless the sshd was a 2.5 inch version, theoretically an sshd should feel faster than an hdd, but all sshds are seagate dumpster versions running dirt nand.
so if we ignore the garbage nand doing almost nothing, then going to a generally faster more modern hdd and having more space left on it results in a decent speed increase, because u are earlier on the hdd, or physically speaking u are farther on the outside of the hdd, the farther out u write/read on the hdd the faster.
BUT it certainly doesn't compare to getting an ssd, believe me :D
also glad u updated, because those seagate SSHD drives have HORRIBLE! failure rates.
cataria the SSHD had 4000 hours on it
@limes so u only used it for about half a year- 1 year? (not sure on your daily use)
i got hdds with 25000 power on hours, with my system running 24/7 most of the time, so hard to reference if 4000 hours is a lot for u or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
either way glad u got a great speed upgrade with that hdd!
cataria as a boot drive it’s a huge difference and it’s only a temporary solution until I get an SSD which should happen in the next 2 months
Well how much bigger you need well its seem to answer to the question but bigger doesn't always mean faster there is also some type of HDD quality some are really fast by exemple some hdd turn at 5200 rpm others 7200rpm and even more of-course the 7200rpm will beat the 5200rpm but there is also caching memory the more cache memory your hdd have the faster its will be to load all your apps, i evaluate the today need at around of 4tb and 128mb of cache and you doesn't want a slow hdd with 64mb of cache and even 128 mb will be things of the past very soon
Linus is the Rob Feretti of tech lmao
Werli wdym by this?
I'm surprised you're talking about hard drives and not trying to get us all onto expensive solidstates. I currently have 2 hard drives of 2TB each. I filled one about 3/4ths, the other is a backup for anything I absolutely do not want to lose in a crash. I have a racing game I was developing in the Unity Engine and I keep a clone copy.
My dad has only used 20GB in the last 5 years, I upgraded his HDD to SDD today
Simple : just buy the biggest harddrive your money can buy, because today with the advantage of high speed internet, most people can fill 1 TB drive in the matter of 1-2 months just for games or videos.
I’ve 1TB HHD and that’s enough for the few games and videos that I’ve
also 256 GB SSD
Also, if you're going to play games on an HDD, try to avoid 5400 RPM drives. That's fine if you need cheap storage, but load times will add up.
They aren't even any cheaper from what I've seen.
Anything was faster than my decade-old 500/640GB drives that I only recently swapped for a WD Blue 4TB 5400rpm. Platter density, cache size, and file system matters too.
I bought a 1 Tb hard drive and thought I'd be done with it.
Until steam started accepting AR$ (I can buy games without a credit card)...
Now I need another Tb just for backups alone, and I may run short (Rhythm games take up *A LOT OF SPACE* if you actually play)
NEVER buy you HARDWARE DISK from the WEST WORLD, they are all WEAK !!!
Buy HARDWARE DISK from ASIA ONLY !!! They are SOOO MUCH STRONGER !! :D
THE WEST HAVE LOST THE BATTLE WHEN IT COME TO HARDWARE DISK.
MINIUMUM 10 TB
UP TO 1000 TB !! ASIA ROCKS WHEN IT COME TO TECH =) =) =) !!
@@agarthaasgardhodl8523 What do you mean with "hardware disk from the west world"? What "battle" are you talking about? Aren't all HDDs manufactured in Asia...?
I still use external HDD with USB 2.0 fml
How much Storage do you need?
Chronos 1.4: Yes
For editing... Never enough storage. Oh for Petabyte hdds.
At least 1/5 of your storage should be flash (SSD).
Not rly.
Nothing is ever enough for someone who uses iMovie they need 1,000 to the 27th power of bytes for example 2 to the power of 2 = 8 so 2x2=4x2=8 just so that way you don’t get confused
Linus: Do you need a bigger H...
Me: *YES*
MY DRIVE IS FULL OF AUTODESK SOFTWARE, ADOBE, AND GAMES. I RANT OUT FEW DAYS BACK AND THE PC WAS COMPLAINING SO I ORDERED A BIGGER ONE TWICE THE SIZE OF THE ONE I JUST FILLED UP.
Do I need a bigger HDD?
Yes, Yes I do.
Jacob Wells no u need no HDD they're obsolete
@@Khloya69 well if you could find me a affordable 2TB SSD I would be very happy :P I already have a 500gb SSD and 3 HDDs that add to around 1TB, It's not enough.....
Jacob Wells I got 1TB of nvme storage it's fine for me I literally just play 1 game lol
@@Khloya69 how much is that? Bet it's super expensive for 1tb nvme storage! Plus my board doesn't have a slot for a nvme ssd
@@Khloya69 They're far from obsolete when it comes to higher capacities. Or can you explain to me how I am supposed to get 8-10 TB SSD storage? Maybe if you're shitting money.
No. I have a 1TB 970 EVO PRO for boot, common executibles, and scratch. Two 2TB Intel 660 in RAID 0 for static storage like games where loss doesn't matter but NVMe read performance is desired while also being cheap. Two 12 TB Seagate Barracuda Compute in RAID 1 for long term video storage where loss would hurt. Lastly 4GB of cloud storage for critical files. Linus didn't really help me but I sell SANs for a living.
This video came right after I just installed a 6TB drive and had a 3TB drive fail on me as I was moving files. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BACK UP!
For a Gamer:
128GB SSD for Windows and other essential software
1TB for secondary software
4TB for game storage
For gamers and movies/series collectors
Add 4TB for those extra
And If you store your personal pics and files
Add another 4TB FOR THAT
NOTE: always use an encrypted HDD to store your personal files so if any virus or malware (or God forbid) RANSOMWARE attack your system your important files will be protected
Enjoy and add your preference
just in time for seagates release of the 16TB drives
according to the data hoarder subreddit most people looking for cheap decent storage "shuck" their drives, which means ordering external drives and getting the internal drive out of the enclosure and using that.
these external drives can cost 33% -50% less than the internal ones and early on they even put the same internals in the drive without any change.
this is mostly done with WD drives.
so those 16 TB seagate drives won't be cheap nor value, and going by seagate's record u can expect higher failure rates.
remember the good old 1.5 TB seagate :D yeah....
no actually, i had to look that up I was barely out of elementary school 10+ years ago, I don't have experience with drive quality from that era but I see the reviews from back then are overwhelmingly negative.
Typically what I've seen out of various forum threads and product reviews on amazon/newegg for Seagate and Western Digital there isn't really a discernible difference on current generation drives, positive or negative. I don't doubt Seagate have a past record for their drive quality, stigmas are there for a reason, but I do not currently carry one for either company. I've only been building my own PCs for a few years here and there but out of the dozen or so Seagate drives i have barracuda, firecuda and ironwolf, and some OEM drives that shipped in my laptops i haven't personally had any issues. I haven't been in the game long enough to speak out of experience for drive failure from any company though.
Drive shucking... I've never heard of that, checked it out, I find that very interesting and I've checked out that sub every once in awhile, along with r/homelab & r/freenas for some reason haven't caught the term before. I do have more to learn for I am still a novice, thank you for that lol.
@BK_Deltor
it sucks a lot, that we don't have average failure rates/drive hour charts for all drives.
the best we got it seems is backblaze's published experiences.
www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/
usually putting HGST way above seagate, with western digital almost not being on the chart, because apparently it's much harder to get volume deals on them if i remember right.
hgst is of course now owned by western digital and early on they basically just renamed drives to WD from hgst it seemed in the highend helium drive tech.
so really it's hard to say, BUT some stuff points a horrible picture for consumers, even though this isn't a consumer workload, like the st4000dm000 (2.74%) failing 6x more than the glorious hgst hms5c4040ble640 (0.45%).
why aren't we producing more of those hgst hms5c4040ble640 drives for the average consumer???
beyond that that hgst drive is also basically completely silent (got 2 myself), with lots of people saying how annoyingly loud hdd random reads/writes can be.
either way, hard to say hdd failure rates and that SUCKS!
BUT seagate does more shady things, like hiding, that they sell SMR drives to consumers, and well actually selling SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drives to a consumer in general is horrible and evil.
smr drives have a higher failure rate and are easier influenced by vibration, so naturally seagate sells smr drives as portable 2.5 inch drives and never mentioned the word SMR in their marketing once :D
but even better smr drives slow down terribly!!! on continuous writing, we're talking beyond bad TLC slow down, so they lie about performance (writing burst not long term continuous speeds), they lie about tech used in the drive and thus they fuck consumers.
@bk_deltor
on the WD side, WD sold and mostly still sells suicide drives, yes u heard that right.
particularly the WD green drives, where they set a timer for parking the heads at 12 seconds or there about, with heads being designed for those drives at 300000 load/unload cycles (if i remember correctly).
so at default and 24/7 use the drives would end up killing themselves VERY very soon and for the average low use consumer the drives would still kill themselves faster than average.
wdidle3 is the tool used to get rid of all this useless drive killing head parking nonesense and i'm not sure if it still works on modern drives, that still have this "feature" but usually set to longer time periods like 5 minutes.
so WD knowingly sold suicide hdds to consumers and kinda still does.
and there is no good reason for parking the heads on idle.
also seagate and WD both got rid of AAM and didn't replace it ever, AAM was used to change hdd head movement speed, which trades latency for completely silence, sth. EVERY desktop user wants.
so between WD and SEAGATE these days it is kinda pick your poison, i would still prefer WD/HGST over seagate though, but they aren't both equally good, rather they are both equally anti consumer shit bad :/
You omitted one group, that used to be very popular but nowadays is (thankfully?) disappearing... or at least it was, cause now it seems to have a revival again.
PIRATES!
If you download a lot of music, especially in high or even lossless quality, if you download a lot of movies (especially in FHD or 4K and high FPS rates), if you download a lot of games (be it new ones that can be massively large like mentioned in the video or even with older games images of multi-disk DVD games from previous eras like PS2, or PC games from that era that will reequire you to both install the game as well as keep the image on the disk to have it mounted virtually) and so on... you want A LOT OF STORAGE, probably even those 10 terabytes...
If you're not a pirate though but buy stuff legally, stuff that is tied to online digital stores and subscription services, so you don't amass a movie and music collection (instead you pay for itunes or spitify and netflix) on your disk and are happy with keeping only the most important steam titles on the disk all the time and the remainign games to rotate them (delete them and re-download when necessary), then yeah, 1TB is probably perfectly enough for most people...
But then again, if you buy HDD instead of SSD then go for multi TB disks cause it's just better bang for buck most of the time and it's better to have too much than too little space. And then consider how much of your data you want to be on the storage drive and how much on your system drive, to estimate what size SSD you want... I say for most people 128GB should be, but that depends...
I'm happy to be the latter but I shamefully admit that I used to be the former like a decade ago.
And it amazes me how can people live with the 32GB laptops, that they're still being released and sold to people... Just wow. Even phones can have 256GB nowadays...
I code in python and I use Arch Linux and I don't play any games or videos locally on my machine, so with 10Gb I will be good for long enough 😅
I use Arch Linux on a 120 GB SSD. I never run out of space. In fact, my usage stay below 35% all the time.
Many distros like OpenSUSE, CentOS, RedHat may seem bloated to Arch users... But still, once installed, they will not use a huge amount of memory...
On the other hand If you use winblows (especially 8 - 10), 2 TB is nothing!
I need 1000 GB for my "assignments"
Games requiring 50GB? That is cute. Some games need up to 100GB or more.
I installed Infinit Warfare again and I think it took up 100GB. A friend of mine looked how big his Ark game folder is and it reached over 150GB.
1TB is more than enough if you play older or mostly indie games. But if you play new AAA games and hames with 4k visuals a lot, 1 TB is not even closely enough. If you pick the right games, you can't even fit 8 games on a 1TB disk.
That subcribers counter is freaking out only for me?
I still see it
ruclips.net/video/RY_2gElt3SA/видео.html
People with a ‘homework’ folder: 10TB at the minimum
Thanks, to the next question I have:
Do I Need a BIGGER DDR69 HAM Stick?
Ahhh no my dude, harddrive prices aren't dropping. They haven't dropped in like 10 years. And while there may be larger storage options. The standard HD on the store shelf is 1-2TB and will run you $60-$100, maybe $50 if you catch a sale. Harddrives have been at a standstill.
as much as I want to say that "you can just re-download those games again", I can't agree with that statement...
not when my internet download speed is only 1.2 MB/s max
same tho
0:27 And 69TB is what you need for storing your biology work.
I've been doing photography seriously for the pats 5 or so months now and filled about 450GB for a 2TB drive with RAW photos and Lightroom catalogs.
I've been doing it 5 years and I'm up to 3tb just in photos even after deleting the less than stellar shots and its not even a full time job. I'd hate to see what kind of space a "real" photographer uses.
Line needs to do classic hardware and software and computer museums the San Francisco computer museum in. Bentley Park UK and look after classic computers for future generations. Linus is a nasty very nasty Harry Potter
Oh phew, thanks for making this video! This is a problem, for example, with gaming laptops... 😓
why do I always watch these even though I already know the answer?
My laptop currently has 2.5 gb of space left, all my stuff is in my user folder which is 20gb, my hard drive is 118gb the rest is taken up by school stuff... no not homework, but stuff like photoshop elements that I don’t use, I’m sad ☹️
It doesn’t matter tho, I have enough space for hl2 😅
3:31 for a second I thought Smarter Every Day was the sponsor. I'm not saying it would make sense, but precisely that it made none.
I have a 1Tb SSD for open world games and a 4Tb HDD for the rest of my games.
My SSD is full and my HDD is half full ;_;
Got 42TB now but are in need for more so got a NAS and 60TB WD red on the way. The most important lesson I've learnt though is to use any other brand than SeaGate since those always fail.
Yup. Seagate is a failure.
Is Max back or was that just old footage? That looked like Max's hair when you were talking about stills photography.
Multi terabyte hard drives exist! I'm still booting windows from a floppy disk! When did hard drives get popular?
Never realised how quickly my daily RUclips channel uploads are going to fill up my hard drive. My 3tb should last a while with 1080p content.
"For avid photographer 1TB is enought" 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 - me: looking for a 12Tb drive right now.
It is not the size that matters, it is how you use it.
what sucks is the 10TB HDD xD malfunctioning and loosing 10TB worth of data...
_i know my 500GB hdd xD needed repairs last week. had to download 400GB worth of data...on 2mbps_
I still use a 500 GB drive which is about 60% empty
Can you guys do a video on how to get internet in the middle of nowhere?
I'm using Hughesnet, and it sucks...
256gb SSD is good enough for me. Some software, one game, RAW files
I have a 1tb external hd, but all I can’t install anything on it, only on c drive
HD FAILURE is the big problem...and the AMOUNTS of data is huge if you loose it..
Him: 1 tb hard drive is not enough
Me: who has a 160 gb hard drive