Thanx for the content from Norway 🙂 Would be interesting to see a lowlevel/full format/`re-silvering' on the bad(ish) performing drives. This should relocate the slow/sleepy blocks that cause the huge dips and slow r/w performance. Will take a long time though...expect 25-30 hours for a 18TB 😅 A linux live/boot utility preferred with either seatools, Gparted or similar to avoid windows drive write control/HAL
Thank you! I have never seen low-level format, really, fix anything. The systems that says that these drives are usually spot on,,, and I really just need to find out how bad they are,, and as you can see this test is quick and points me in the right direction :-)
Years ago when I supported a lot of sales people I'd keep a supply of drives around because when someone would quit, I'd put their old HD in a slot in one of those padded hard drive shipping crates and swap for another drive. Then every so often I'd take them out and run the old DOS based WD Diagnostics on them which didn't seem to care what brand drive you had, it would still test them. If there was a failure I'd try to get it replaced under warranty if it wasn't an old drive. I also would almost always run the laptop built in diagnostics on each one before I let it boot into windows so if there were any issues with hardware or drives I'd catch it before I wasted any time doing any OS repairs when they would send them in.
I'm not a Seagate fanboy at all, just the lucky bastard that got away of never having one dying on me. Guess sometimes you win, most times you lose when it comes to Seagate 😁 When you've been talking about the visible difference between SAS and SATA connectors, my mind constantly kept repeating "Mind the gap!" - Must have been in London far too long... 😉
I think new Seagate drives are okay,, they have had some bad ones in the past,, and I have had 100-ish bad ones probably. "Mind the gap!",, I will try to remember that one :-)
I like these hard drive testing videos as well, but it would be fun too see S.M.A.R.T data for each drive as well like power on hours and reallocated sectors etc
You should purchase the pro version of HDtune. But until then you can just uninstall it and delete it's reg-key, reinstall and you have another 15 day full-feature test.
Great loved the show, Yes, Seagate has more failures than anything else. Another note, stay away from the Helium filled drives, the gas will eventually leak out after about 5 years, ending the life of the drive.
are this lenovo servers so loud all the time? HPE DL360 and 380 gen 8, 9, 10 are really quiet after initial boot. I also have two x3650m2 here and they are screeming loud all the time.
@@MyPlayHouse in our server-room where two of the x3650m2 are running, you have the feeling you put ear-protection on, when you have switched of these loud servers. it's so quiet when they are shut-down, the label on the windows-start-button should be relabeled to "shut up".
when I look in the camara and the little monitor it is all fine,, but when I turn my head, and can't see the monitor,,, I could have done a better hair job.,,, Thank You!
I have had more issues with WD HDD drive compared to other brands. I have drives of most major brands. And M.2 crucal are shocking with less than 250 days use and down to 88% good.
@@MyPlayHouse "backblaze drive stats" would suggest the same but why would they only have 4x WDC 7x Toshiba 7x HGST & 17x Seagate different drive types. It does seem odd that Seagate is most used and failures. the 2023 stats shows the best picture with a whole year to compare brands.
Well this one said differently. I have to edit the video because I accidentally said Vienna, Australia, instead of Austria. :-/ but I cough it in the edit :-)
Seagate Barracuda brand is doomed..since the late 90's ..ja ja ja...i had one of the older models in the IDE days..they were fast but did not last longer than 2 years..in the job we used scsi and those lasted about 3 years
The line of drives is still marketed and manufactured as WD Ultrastar DC HCxxx It used to be exactly the same just named HGST. They outperform the majority of the rest of the WD line for data centre use, which is why Dell, HP use those as their OEM drives.. not the WD Gold. They're cheaper due to economy of scale
It's friday hard drive testing with morten
Good times,,,
That HGST with the corners cut off reminds me of the old Kalok Octagon MFM drives
I do not think I know those..
Nerds are not boring, we just get excited over boring stuff 😉
We are SOOO funny,, behind the firewall..
Great thanks for the videos (must be getting old memory going!) - hope you have a great day and weekend!
Hi @davidanderson2436
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
👍 even very interesting material odykas with his parameters
Hi @skynetcybersystem3tech
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Can't believe that failed 18TB drive was from only 2021... WTF...
The storage box has 106 drives,,, so as this was the first bad one,, makes it still less than 1% failure :-)
Thanx for the content from Norway 🙂 Would be interesting to see a lowlevel/full format/`re-silvering' on the bad(ish) performing drives. This should relocate the slow/sleepy blocks that cause the huge dips and slow r/w performance. Will take a long time though...expect 25-30 hours for a 18TB 😅 A linux live/boot utility preferred with either seatools, Gparted or similar to avoid windows drive write control/HAL
Thank you! I have never seen low-level format, really, fix anything. The systems that says that these drives are usually spot on,,, and I really just need to find out how bad they are,, and as you can see this test is quick and points me in the right direction :-)
Years ago when I supported a lot of sales people I'd keep a supply of drives around because when someone would quit, I'd put their old HD in a slot in one of those padded hard drive shipping crates and swap for another drive. Then every so often I'd take them out and run the old DOS based WD Diagnostics on them which didn't seem to care what brand drive you had, it would still test them.
If there was a failure I'd try to get it replaced under warranty if it wasn't an old drive. I also would almost always run the laptop built in diagnostics on each one before I let it boot into windows so if there were any issues with hardware or drives I'd catch it before I wasted any time doing any OS repairs when they would send them in.
Hi @stonent
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
And today we play at my house !
Hi @intrax2tv
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I'm not a Seagate fanboy at all, just the lucky bastard that got away of never having one dying on me. Guess sometimes you win, most times you lose when it comes to Seagate 😁
When you've been talking about the visible difference between SAS and SATA connectors, my mind constantly kept repeating "Mind the gap!" - Must have been in London far too long... 😉
I think new Seagate drives are okay,, they have had some bad ones in the past,, and I have had 100-ish bad ones probably.
"Mind the gap!",, I will try to remember that one :-)
I like these hard drive testing videos as well, but it would be fun too see S.M.A.R.T data for each drive as well like power on hours and reallocated sectors etc
The SAS drives often does not have S.M.A.R.T data
You should purchase the pro version of HDtune. But until then you can just uninstall it and delete it's reg-key, reinstall and you have another 15 day full-feature test.
:-) that is an option :-) I need a batch job for that :-)
Great loved the show, Yes, Seagate has more failures than anything else. Another note, stay away from the Helium filled drives, the gas will eventually leak out after about 5 years, ending the life of the drive.
I am not sure the Helium thing is a thing.. the Helium is not under pressure,, I do not see why it should want to go anywhere.
are this lenovo servers so loud all the time? HPE DL360 and 380 gen 8, 9, 10 are really quiet after initial boot.
I also have two x3650m2 here and they are screeming loud all the time.
Yes,, it is not a quite server,, but the microphone is also awesome at picking up the noise,, it is not as bad in real life.
@@MyPlayHouse in our server-room where two of the x3650m2 are running, you have the feeling you put ear-protection on, when you have switched of these loud servers. it's so quiet when they are shut-down, the label on the windows-start-button should be relabeled to "shut up".
Nice job Morten!
Hi @OldMX
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
any software like hdtune to perform this kind of tasks - with graphs (can be XML export) for linux?
I have found that it works fine for this quick test.
Awesome job Morten! Great job on the video!
Yeah Seagate drives.... 600gb EXOS drive that has failed status on my test bench before I commissioned it. Super reliable. 😂
Hi @LeeZhiWei8219
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I do think there newer drives are better..
@@MyPlayHouse it has gotten better honestly. But sometimes drives do randomly fail...
When will you be returning to Portugal?
Today :-)
whats ur opinion on thosiba hdd
I think I have had one Toshiba disk in a old laptop,,, I do not have an opinion,, as I do not have experiences with them.
I think the shark fin is pretty cool
when I look in the camara and the little monitor it is all fine,, but when I turn my head, and can't see the monitor,,, I could have done a better hair job.,,, Thank You!
Spinning rust is running out!
Well if you look at the alternative,, it is your money that will be running out for 10-18TB drives :-)
HD Tune Pro v6.00 cost $24.95 EUR
Thank You,, yes I should just cough up...
what is "$24.95 EUR"? a new currency?
rawr, just know HD Tune free can only test 2.2TB disks, the pro can test all of the drive for the "benchmark" tab
Tf are you a lion
@@leo_craft1 meow?
It still does well ,pointing out the really bad drives.
the dead drives do you crush them at work ?
No he has them for breakfast, look at his teeth !
When a whole storage system is taken out of production,, more is done.
Look at my hair,, it is clearly done with static electricity...
I did not mention the hair, it's bunker style !
So what do you do with these hard drives I don't see any movies and music and TV shows put on these massive hard drives
As a movie producer myself,, a too big movie collection would look bad :-)
I have had more issues with WD HDD drive compared to other brands. I have drives of most major brands.
And M.2 crucal are shocking with less than 250 days use and down to 88% good.
For me Seagate is in front of other brands,, on failures :-(
@@MyPlayHouse "backblaze drive stats" would suggest the same but why would they only have 4x WDC 7x Toshiba 7x HGST & 17x Seagate different drive types. It does seem odd that Seagate is most used and failures. the 2023 stats shows the best picture with a whole year to compare brands.
The WD drive is not produced in Vienna, it's made in Thailand! 😂
Well this one said differently. I have to edit the video because I accidentally said Vienna, Australia, instead of Austria. :-/ but I cough it in the edit :-)
@@MyPlayHouseThe label says WD Wien, Austria. But on the right side of the label it says: Made in Thailand.
Chris Titus does not like Seagate at all.
Hi @repairman2be250
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Seagate Barracuda brand is doomed..since the late 90's ..ja ja ja...i had one of the older models in the IDE days..they were fast but did not last longer than 2 years..in the job we used scsi and those lasted about 3 years
I have also reached quite a lot Seagate drives in my time :-)
At my house it's debian installation day and i'm already formatting because i set the root password and i want sudo!!! Yaay
Best of luck :-) installing
FYI: HGST was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. HGST drives are WD lower performing drives and typically discounted compared to WD drives.
The line of drives is still marketed and manufactured as WD Ultrastar DC HCxxx
It used to be exactly the same just named HGST.
They outperform the majority of the rest of the WD line for data centre use, which is why Dell, HP use those as their OEM drives.. not the WD Gold.
They're cheaper due to economy of scale
I know they are part of WD,, but I like them better than WD :-)
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