@Wth happened to my name I own 3 desktop PC. One is 15 years old. Is working well with the original HDD. This Pc was abused and used soooo long...And was a budget PC.
@Wth happened to my name Maybe but in a case of a severe power fluctuation in your home you can also lose your fridge, TV, etc... It is also depending on the power supply you own and the quality of the HDD. Most of the HDD last very-very long.
My jaw always drops when I see how these things work. It amazes me that you have a platter spinning at 7200 RPM (up to 15000 back in the day) and the mechanical arm that is reading and writing data with precision. I have a 10-year-old western digital hard drive with over 30000 power-on hours and it still works just fine. Absolutely amazing considering how these things work.
@@MrDegsy69 I don't think equipment designed to sustain tens-to-hundreds of Gs worth of acceleration is going to keel over from a few extra millions or so swings. Considering that manufacturers don't even try to give any estimate total seek count as HDD health metric should tell you that it's much more reliable than majority of HDD components.
@@MrDegsy69 Uh, my point was that HDDs life span doesn't depend on data access patterns at all if you consider its standard operational lifetime. Defragmentation is done only to avoid random access as HDDs aren't particularly good with it. And superior performance of SSD has nothing to do with it, why did you even mentioned them?
@@bitrunner8759 well of course the data in ssd is already there while hdd need to find the data which I find quite funny how the hdd rpm Is super fast but still getting the data like me trying to find where i put my car key
Older technology is always quite interesting to see what engineers were able to accomplish. Look at the color correction crt TVs they had back in the days. Wow.
I have a hard drive that lasted 18 years before finally giving up. ssd's usually dont last as long as hard drives, which is really weird to think about cause youd think ssd's would last longer but apparently not. Either way, no matter what you use, you should always back up your data
Have one from 1999, it came in a pre built running windows 98, then ME, then XP and finally vista before retiring it in 2010 to buy a pc that ran windows 7 and I still have them both to this day
I love hard drives, they are super cheap and generally lasts longer than ssd, ssd's are much better don't get me wrong, but for people with very limited budget like me, they are a godsend
It’s amazing, isn’t it? I’ve always been curious about how things work, ever since I was a little girl and now I finally get to see it. I don’t have the words to describe how brilliant it is! You’re doing a great job!
Holy shit! I knew that the needle moves fast to collect data off the disk, but I didn't know it moved THIS fast! And the idea of using eddy currents to dampen the movement is genius. Man, so much cool tech around us that needs more appreciation than what they get.
Came for the title, stayed for the lovely explanation of how HDDs work vs SSDs. I already know this information, but I thought you did a fine job explaining it! Great video!
@@Skull_Knight_ you're right, but the guy in the video still said them in reverse. he pointed at the 7-pin data connector and said it was power, and vice versa
I work at IT at a company. We get tons of hard drives from desktops, servers, and laptops that are dead. We need to recycle them so the best secure way to make sure the data is destroyed is by opening up the hard drive and smashing or cutting the plates. It's lots of fun and has given me tons of opportunities to break down a hard drive and find out exactly how they work.
@Oliver yeah, we learned about some of that, but mostly we just were taught of the more common ways that are easy to prevent. Like, having an unfiltered URL input or whatever its called. When the user can just change /pswdchk=false to /pswdchk=true. lol
@Oliver yeah i have my Kali VM still if i ever want to do a DOS attack on a friend's server or something or maybe find an open port and see what i can do with it lol. but professionally i don't think i'm interested.
In my first PC XT at work I installed an old 5 MB hard drive which had had it's lid removed, and it worked for quite a while as I recall. It was a lot of fun to watch working...
For such a short video, that was really good. I took my first (very old) HDD apart about 20 years ago... (I got that drive 8 years before that, so make that at least a 28 year old drive if it was still around today!!!). I've taken many dead drives apart since then to see how they failed, but never thought to plug one in and watch it in action. This was really interesting to see. Thank you :)
Back in 2001 I was a mechanical engineer at Iomega in Utah. We explored using this exact Hitachi drive as a platform for removable drives (in place of the Zip drive). The idea was to have Hitachi supply the guts (motor and platter) and we would incorporate that into an enclosure that mated up to the host which contained the arm, heads, magnets, ramp and so on. The challenge was the mechanical interface - how to prevent any speck of dust from entering the enclosure while the drive was mounting. In the process we took apart a lot of these drives. We also looked at adding a micro laser burner on the head and built some prototypes but they were way too finicky to manufacture. (We called that the OZ project: Optical Zip) One of the things that are not apparent is the "fly" hight of the head which is less than a micron. The bottom of the head has a zirconium layer (very hard) and the media has a DLC (diamond-like coating) in case the head skates a bit. To me the magnetic drive is a marvel.
i know HDDs are becoming obsolete but looking at how they work internally interesting. The way the mechanical arm moves back and forth across the disc really fast to read and write data is pretty cool
Can you imagine as a child hearing "Never ever put magnets near a hard disk or have the computer move near a strong magnetic field!!" and upon opening up my first hard disk for it having become obsolete (A whopping 864 Mb! :D ) and trying to get the disks out and having my screwdriver fling towards the actuator arm and get seriously stuck there because of the neodymium magnets that creates the magnetic field the coil that's on the other end of the arm disrupts in order for it to move. I was gobsmacked knowing that there's such a strong magnet so close to the disk :P.
They're not completely obsolete, they do have a huge role where large amounts of data are needed to be stored, but not frequently accessed, so like on a lot of servers
I didn't think any modern HD would work with the cover off. Modern drives are so precisely manufactured, simply changing the torque of the cover screws will flex the drive's frame enough to render it unable to function. It's crazy that these things work at all! My first hard drive was an 88MB Maxtor in an Amiga 1200, circa 1992. The ball bearings in that thing were insanely loud and it ran hot as an oven, but it worked like a champ until I replaced it around 2005 "just in case."
This was so interesting! I have only ever read books and seen picture diagrams of how platter hdds work! I never knew you could safely open up an hdd and plug it in (of course it would be a disposable hdd just for learning purposes). So interesting!! My geek side has been activated 😄
This technology is ancient, it is still mechanical for the most part and yet it does able to hold as much as 10TB of storage space Yeah sure we got SSDs but i think HDDs are more interesting
Why do you call hdd ancient technology? Most people doesn't have money to buy ssd equipped computers and have them only in smartphones so it is still largely used
Antoine Brocq SSD’s are no longer so expensive that is unrealistic to get one. You can get a 1TB SSD for $50-$100 depending on the type you get vs 1991 a 20mb SSD sold for $1,000. They have caught up and are sorta cheap.
@@gavinstarks2761 I realised I was thinking about my country specifically when I said it sorry :) Here in Brazil it's still expensive asf but it's because of national factors and I forgot about it for a sec
2:06 NO, right now there are ssds with 3.8TB storage, and HDD which can hold 12 TB so Hdd is the cheap way of storing things in bulk EDIT: UPto 16TB nowadays 😄
@@Yosuru Another reason is read and write cycles of hard disk is much higher than ssd. It'll keep running for years and people can also repair it. Ssds have much lower read/write cycles
You see how smart and fast technology is becoming and soon gonna defeat all human capabilities like thinking that pin was moving so fast it gave me that vibe
Basically NEVER DO THIS! And if you do, only with a drive that you don't care about the data. I wonder if once this drive inevitably breaks down, if some data could still be salvaged, but I wouldn't expect much.
yes, however data recovery stores will often have a clean room or box that the drive is less likely to get dirty in. The only reason to open a drive is in a worst case scenario where small physical repairs are necessary in order to attempt to get the drive to work again long enough to get any important data off. If you get a drive repaired, do not use it as it most likely will fail within a few days or weeks.
Spinning can only happen with DC current because it moves in one direction only. But the city power you used is AC which oscillates at a frequency of around 50/60 Hz which causes a switching in the magnetic field and basically results in a push-pull effect and results in a net zero force and does'nt cause the spinning of the spinner.
When my Xbox One hard drive goes idle while I'm not using any data you hear an audible "click" which is the drive head returning home to the rest position. I used to think it was actually the drive failing and I got paranoid but once I figured out it was the mechanics of the hard drive doing this I chilled out... As long as it is a single click that only happens once in a while and not in a long series of clicks then you have nothing to worry about in your Xbox One. As long as no physical trauma happens or any severe electrical surges occur a drive will rarely go out. If you are an Xbox One/One S/One X owner and you hear a click once in a while, rest easy... It is just the read/write drive arm going back to home position!
people, don't open your drives if you want them to run afterwards
@USSF - United States Space Force you will get dust in it and it will break at some soon point
Just like a car will run without oil... until it doesn't.
@USSF - United States Space Force it have void on it so I don't recommend you to open it
lucas 0051 warranty void.
@USSF - United States Space Force any dust particle is capable of completely destroying a hard drive
This is an insane movement. It is a wonder they last so long.
That's what she said
@Wth happened to my name longer than my SSD lol.
@Wth happened to my name I own 3 desktop PC. One is 15 years old. Is working well with the original HDD. This Pc was abused and used soooo long...And was a budget PC.
@Wth happened to my name Maybe but in a case of a severe power fluctuation in your home you can also lose your fridge, TV, etc... It is also depending on the power supply you own and the quality of the HDD. Most of the HDD last very-very long.
@Wth happened to my name bruh, just because your HDD died of a power outage it doesn't mean that all HDD's are weak
You can't be in two places at once. Hard drive needle: 'Watch me'
70th like ;)
@@pseudoforceyt No
likes[69].getName().equals("The Pseudo Force");
That's better ^
@@devhonk1722 Just throwing some Java code is not better. Hell, throwing Java code anywhere is not better.
@@devhonk1722 C++ > Java
@@SFSAtlas binary > c++
My jaw always drops when I see how these things work. It amazes me that you have a platter spinning at 7200 RPM (up to 15000 back in the day) and the mechanical arm that is reading and writing data with precision. I have a 10-year-old western digital hard drive with over 30000 power-on hours and it still works just fine. Absolutely amazing considering how these things work.
I have a Seagate Pipeline HD.2 500GB with 67000 hrs
1TB HDD in my 2012 iMac, still kickin just fine.
2 tb seagate with 32k power on hours, still in good health.
You guys should take backup asap…. Lol
I'm commenting just to say "RUSH 2112"! 😁
Fun fact: an HDD’s actuator arm can move over 20 times in .02 seconds.
fun fact : this is still slow for pc needs
@@laserbeam3836 Lmao, too slow
You think this is fun? There is some serious shit going on here.
@@shoaib_zubair that's pretty fun what are you talking about?
@@paulortalex6613 😁😁😁
That accuracy and timing of the hdd head is insane.
@@MrDegsy69 I don't think equipment designed to sustain tens-to-hundreds of Gs worth of acceleration is going to keel over from a few extra millions or so swings. Considering that manufacturers don't even try to give any estimate total seek count as HDD health metric should tell you that it's much more reliable than majority of HDD components.
@@MrDegsy69 Uh, my point was that HDDs life span doesn't depend on data access patterns at all if you consider its standard operational lifetime.
Defragmentation is done only to avoid random access as HDDs aren't particularly good with it. And superior performance of SSD has nothing to do with it, why did you even mentioned them?
Likeme on my exams
The dna replicating machinery in our bodies is even more faster, accurate and intricate.
"SSD has no moving parts"
electrons: am i a joke to you?
Lol this is actually true
@Rohit Ganjoo It's a joke, please don't bring the nerdy facts here
@Rohit Ganjoo not in this instance
@Rohit Ganjoo ur r8
@@deadchannel5933 you should've said "technically true"
3:04 the guy who put the chips on the PCB: i have achieved comedy
It's a canon aiming up
@@km27-knleague29 a
@@AlinDarklight you're too innocent 😇
@@AlinDarklight Tis' the words of an innocent man that doesn't know how the world works.
@@noahcuevas6429 Verily. Thy hast not learnt about the world yet. Thou shalleth goest back to school.
The head moves so fast that it almost looks fake
It's essentially a glitch in the Matrix
@@rhaib
ssd is even faster
@@bitrunner8759 well of course the data in ssd is already there while hdd need to find the data which I find quite funny how the hdd rpm Is super fast but still getting the data like me trying to find where i put my car key
@@John_Ass Awesome name man. Reminds me of the time I laughed really hard at if someone was named 'Jack Shit'.
Touf see An SSD doesn’t have a head in the first place.
Older technology is always quite interesting to see what engineers were able to accomplish. Look at the color correction crt TVs they had back in the days. Wow.
Older technology? i still use it😢
@@huuu4689 Me, too. I use both. I have SSDs for the OS, and an inexpensive high capacity hard drive for games, movies, etc.
Hdd old? Lol
@@David-iz8dd yup. 1956 first introduced. Definitely not new
Newer is much more interesting to know after using older ones. Wonder how far we have come
Sometimes I wonder how someone invents this.. and how advanced we really are.
Small step by small step. The hard drives from 50 years ago operated on the same principle, but much bigger and slower.
this looks so futuristic yet it is getting outdated ;)
A lot of experts slowly adding improvements to an existing tech.
men invent stuff
@@TheRobloxianTacoLord "men" women can invent stuff as well....
Hard Drive be like: I'm more hard working than your SSDs.
And still many times slower than ssd :D
@@sakuvihera8148
Until your ssd died from too much writing and sending data
Work smarter not harder. Hard drive is working hard, but the SSD has a solid state of mind.
Another full form of ssd is smart state drive 😎😅🤣
@Yaoming yeah, yesterday I installed 128 GB SSD with 512 gb hdd in my pc. It works very fast
5:06 this is what you came here for.
no
Yes, thank u. This dude has been talking too long
Thanks
Thank you
THANK YOU!
So that explains why the sound in my laptop is hissing.
N..no. The hard drive does NOT make that sound loudly. You should check your laptop fans. Something might be wrong, it's worth a try.
Get a SSD
@@poppyykawaiii *AN ssd
@@shinozaaakiii
No this is the sound that a hear every day hdd was the reason for that sound
DOG DOG no one needs grammar in a fucking comment section
To think mine lasted 8 years (and still works to this day) without any issue is amazing. So glad I have an SSD now
I have a hard drive that lasted 18 years before finally giving up. ssd's usually dont last as long as hard drives, which is really weird to think about cause youd think ssd's would last longer but apparently not. Either way, no matter what you use, you should always back up your data
I have acer E1 531 it along with HDD is still going strong after 8 years
Have one from 1999, it came in a pre built running windows 98, then ME, then XP and finally vista before retiring it in 2010 to buy a pc that ran windows 7 and I still have them both to this day
I love hard drives, they are super cheap and generally lasts longer than ssd, ssd's are much better don't get me wrong, but for people with very limited budget like me, they are a godsend
I have one that is still working after 10 years
Incredible how precisely made these where, and to think these are considered old tech now is crazy
Solid State Drive: “I’m not hard!”
but im solid
Solid, man!
@@murtujafiros4488 mine is solid ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Find the penis inside of the ssd.
"YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A SSHD, ALSO KNOWN AS A HYBRID DRIVE YOU IDIOT!"
Edit: how tf did this blow up
I want to get an HDD just to sharpen my knife on the platter
lol
"Very smart"
You want a rough stone to sharpen a knife
Tell me what I should write as a comment plz, I will type that out 👻
I tried for 10 sec and it stopped spinnin
It’s amazing, isn’t it? I’ve always been curious about how things work, ever since I was a little girl and now I finally get to see it. I don’t have the words to describe how brilliant it is! You’re doing a great job!
Holy shit! I knew that the needle moves fast to collect data off the disk, but I didn't know it moved THIS fast! And the idea of using eddy currents to dampen the movement is genius. Man, so much cool tech around us that needs more appreciation than what they get.
Now every time I open a folder i would feel bad for my hard drive for doing so much work 😞
Why would you feel bad, it's not even alive
Its an object, its not alive...
Then get an SSD so it doesn’t have to spin to get something
*in a Swedish accent* “Perhaps you feel sorry for the drive. That is because you are crazy! It has no feelings; and besides, the new one is better!”
Feel like no one here has sympathy
Me: Search "GTAV.exe"
Actuator: So anyway I started blasting
Lol that's hilarious!! Nice joke! You made my day. I'm subscribing.
you guys are so fucking generic lmao
Hahaha, so funy, I'm laughing. :)
Not funny, Yes'nt laughed
Gustavo Fring fun police 🚔
I am a Korean university student studying computer structure, and I thank you for providing me with videos that are difficult to access
Came for the title, stayed for the lovely explanation of how HDDs work vs SSDs. I already know this information, but I thought you did a fine job explaining it! Great video!
It’s all fun and games until a disk flies out and cuts your neck
im dying bruv
Fucc
i never thought about that, but now.. i do.
better keep that shit sealed wtf
And then you get some big ass buffed punching boi
It almost looks like a glitch in real life
Yep
Fax
7:30 bruh
Ikr 😂 it's so uncanny
True
7:22 My brain when my teacher calls me out when I don't expect it
your brain needs defragmentation
Me: did I accidentally leave my minecraft texture pack in here?
Hard drive: FHSMMSNRJDKSNSKDDKSMAAAHHHHHHHH
This is fascinating
Its been 2 months, no replies
@@NoNamelolxd funny
Yes
what are you doing here
mmm
0:22 the small part is the sata and the big part is the power connector.
This really bothered me
yeah... I kind of cringed when he said them in reverse
Sata (data) and Sata (power)
@@Skull_Knight_ you're right, but the guy in the video still said them in reverse. he pointed at the 7-pin data connector and said it was power, and vice versa
No the big part is data and small is power
Didn’t know the joker analyzes computer parts
Reincarnation
This is what he did 10 minutes before the bank robbery
We live in a *C o m p u t e r*
Exactly what I was thinking lol
Sounds like Hank Pym
even though HDD is older and less practical than SSD it's more beautiful to see
"The plates show scratches at level 5 with deeper grooves at level 6".
I know this youtuber.... he loves scratching phones....
@@moahmedhashim9881 I think this RUclipsr is JERRY RIG EVERYTHING
"Even the material is made either in aluminum or glass coated with magnetic material, it still scratches at level 5 with deeper grooves at level 6."
jerry rig everything alert haha lol
Jerry sir😂
This is my first time seeing inside a hdd and ssd. Thanks for the Video. Thumbs up!
I work at IT at a company. We get tons of hard drives from desktops, servers, and laptops that are dead. We need to recycle them so the best secure way to make sure the data is destroyed is by opening up the hard drive and smashing or cutting the plates. It's lots of fun and has given me tons of opportunities to break down a hard drive and find out exactly how they work.
@Oliver lol, i know right? i'm having fun chatting in this.
@Oliver good luck! I stink at hacking, we did it in IT security class.
@Oliver yeah, we learned about some of that, but mostly we just were taught of the more common ways that are easy to prevent. Like, having an unfiltered URL input or whatever its called. When the user can just change /pswdchk=false to /pswdchk=true. lol
@Oliver yeah i have my Kali VM still if i ever want to do a DOS attack on a friend's server or something or maybe find an open port and see what i can do with it lol. but professionally i don't think i'm interested.
Dont let this distract you from the fact that every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes
now where have I heard that before
catto of the cats very popular video
Woah really?
*No It DoEs nOt, Go tO sChOoL!!*
No it does not. Go to school.
RUclips really knows what i want to watch at 3am
LOL
Bruh its really 4 am in my timezone.
This comment is overused. Stop it. Get some help. -michael jordan
Haha. Exactly my point. LOL
In my first PC XT at work I installed an old 5 MB hard drive which had had it's lid removed, and it worked for quite a while as I recall. It was a lot of fun to watch working...
The data on an hdd is stored in concentric circles and are divided into sectors. Optical discs store data in a continuous spiral.
I like turtles
Yeah, that head movements is so fast and jittery, it looks like something glitching in a video game.
any mouse why?
7200 rpm
@@doylan1101 dang I want to see 14000RPM SAS
That cold mechanical precision.
Why can I listen to this guy for hours and not get bored
2:37 who decided to arrange the chips like that lmao
Props to him
lil sus
Wouldn’t be surprised to found out it was an “inside joke”
PP
Gotta kink for creeper ass
why do hard drives feel like 2050 technology
i know its so amazing, but really the first commercial HDD was sold by IBM in 1956. Back then they were the size of washing machines.
You live in 1950
Izzuru cant deny this tech is still amazing by todays standards, especially considering you can put 10tb or more on that disk.
Umm it just feels like really old technology with some optimisations... Any moving part seems old technology to me.
Spongebobs gay what the fuck I never seen a 10tb hdd
For such a short video, that was really good.
I took my first (very old) HDD apart about 20 years ago... (I got that drive 8 years before that, so make that at least a 28 year old drive if it was still around today!!!).
I've taken many dead drives apart since then to see how they failed, but never thought to plug one in and watch it in action.
This was really interesting to see. Thank you :)
20 years of working with computers and I never thought about this at all. That is so fucking cool. Thank you for making this video.
Back in 2001 I was a mechanical engineer at Iomega in Utah. We explored using this exact Hitachi drive as a platform for removable drives (in place of the Zip drive). The idea was to have Hitachi supply the guts (motor and platter) and we would incorporate that into an enclosure that mated up to the host which contained the arm, heads, magnets, ramp and so on. The challenge was the mechanical interface - how to prevent any speck of dust from entering the enclosure while the drive was mounting. In the process we took apart a lot of these drives. We also looked at adding a micro laser burner on the head and built some prototypes but they were way too finicky to manufacture. (We called that the OZ project: Optical Zip) One of the things that are not apparent is the "fly" hight of the head which is less than a micron. The bottom of the head has a zirconium layer (very hard) and the media has a DLC (diamond-like coating) in case the head skates a bit. To me the magnetic drive is a marvel.
Cool story! Thanks!
5:05
Wasim Akram thanks
have a good life. Thank you
Thanks.
That's cool, but the information before it is as valuable too
Ty
I am happy as it didn't got recommended 10 years later
In a few years (if not yet) this is going to be part of history of technology!
The technology that went into HDDs are incredible but it's funny how it's becoming a "budget solution" now.
Is your hard drive running?
"Yes why?"
WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
Sans. No.
@@killeravecrage ?
Fucking oldand unfunny joke.
@@botyaltotertutal468 its a shitty comment on a dying platform get over it
@@MlordSlav the platform aint dying tho
It's one of the incredible things mankind has ever done
Ikr that’s what I keep thinking like yo how did someone figure this out. There’s a reason people used reel to reel magnetic tape for such a long time
try looking at how CPUs are made, I think they it is THE most complex and sophisticated invention of humanity ever
Hardware is rather poggers
@@Zaunite_Beast Or the Large Hadron Collider
Ok yes but there’s billions of transistors on a single CPU, and each one is only 7nm big (that’s 0.0000007 cm)
Imagine how fast the arm is when you search up that one file you can’t find in the entire C drive
Try everything from voidtools. Free software and better search than windows search.
Lol who has a hard drive as c drive
@@RazDum. me
@@decriper1097 I have 256 gb ssd as c and 1tb hard drive as a
@@RazDum. same
These are the stuff they should've been teaching us in school, man!!
One can see it's afterimage, yeah it's that fast.
it's like those fast things in anime being at multiple places at once cuz they so FAST!!!! !
@@Danuxsy yeah they are called afterimages lol but this is really insane.
@@sheepherd2210 yepp
@@Danuxsy Yeah like the Picard maneuver.
The disk doesn’t even look like it’s spinning
Incredable how a computer can function with a harddrive and etc, how fast computertechnology can go
i know HDDs are becoming obsolete but looking at how they work internally interesting. The way the mechanical arm moves back and forth across the disc really fast to read and write data is pretty cool
Can you imagine as a child hearing "Never ever put magnets near a hard disk or have the computer move near a strong magnetic field!!" and upon opening up my first hard disk for it having become obsolete (A whopping 864 Mb! :D ) and trying to get the disks out and having my screwdriver fling towards the actuator arm and get seriously stuck there because of the neodymium magnets that creates the magnetic field the coil that's on the other end of the arm disrupts in order for it to move.
I was gobsmacked knowing that there's such a strong magnet so close to the disk :P.
They're not completely obsolete, they do have a huge role where large amounts of data are needed to be stored, but not frequently accessed, so like on a lot of servers
2:37 why do I feel like they placed it that way on purpose
Haha lol
Hahahaha it's a dick shape now laugh
Lmao clean up your mind from dirty taughts
Lmao legendary
l o l
I didn't think any modern HD would work with the cover off. Modern drives are so precisely manufactured, simply changing the torque of the cover screws will flex the drive's frame enough to render it unable to function. It's crazy that these things work at all!
My first hard drive was an 88MB Maxtor in an Amiga 1200, circa 1992. The ball bearings in that thing were insanely loud and it ran hot as an oven, but it worked like a champ until I replaced it around 2005 "just in case."
My Amiga HDDs are still working fine.
Always knew how it works in theory, never seen how it works in practice. Thank you for this video.
This was so interesting! I have only ever read books and seen picture diagrams of how platter hdds work! I never knew you could safely open up an hdd and plug it in (of course it would be a disposable hdd just for learning purposes). So interesting!! My geek side has been activated 😄
only some HDDs work though, some require the arm to be affixed to the lid as well.
I still remember those huge and loud hard drives from the Win95 era, sometimes I miss the sound they used to make.
"Power on one side" *points to data connection*
"Data on the other" *points to power connection*
probably used to ide or something, cause mmmmm big ide data cable
It blows my mind
I stopped watching at that point
The "naked / opened" HDD really looks COOL inside a transparent external enclosure. 😋😎😝
It won't be protected from dust though
Western digital did it. Search it up
@@kekkodance Yeah with their 10k raptor drives (man i want one of those in my rig)
7:22 damn, that's one fragmented drive.
lmao
As an experienced computer engineer, I can confirm that that is indeed a hard drive.
ok
This technology is ancient, it is still mechanical for the most part and yet it does able to hold as much as 10TB of storage space
Yeah sure we got SSDs but i think HDDs are more interesting
20TB HDD to be released soon :D
Why do you call hdd ancient technology? Most people doesn't have money to buy ssd equipped computers and have them only in smartphones so it is still largely used
Antoine Brocq SSD’s are no longer so expensive that is unrealistic to get one. You can get a 1TB SSD for $50-$100 depending on the type you get vs 1991 a 20mb SSD sold for $1,000. They have caught up and are sorta cheap.
@@gavinstarks2761 I realised I was thinking about my country specifically when I said it sorry :) Here in Brazil it's still expensive asf but it's because of national factors and I forgot about it for a sec
HDDs are getting to the physical limit, they need to spin faster to hold more data (or need to have more data plates but there is also a limit)
you took me back when I went to Duke U for a network engineering program and I had the professor do this very same thing :) that was fun
It's almost like a piece of art the way it's designed.
When I was little I used to love tearing apart dead hard drives. Taking a screwdriver and disassembling it was so much fun for my adhd brain
As a kid, I had a blast collecting broken Hard Drives and dismantling them to take the disks and the magnets. I still have them today lmao
Yeah the magnets are so strong
i’ve took one apart and spinning the motor with the platers is so fun
0:21 Swich that around and its correct
how can anything be this sophisticated and ancient the same time
I'm a straight guy, but i felt his voice in my spine. I don't listen to any, but this is the best ASMR i've heard. I'm glad this was recommended
2:06 NO, right now there are ssds with 3.8TB storage, and HDD which can hold 12 TB so Hdd is the cheap way of storing things in bulk
EDIT: UPto 16TB nowadays 😄
Cio Dokop ssd’s are much more expensive than hdd’s of the same storages for sure.
@@jace_Henderson and we are using it...... Because they are faster than HDD(i mean reading speed)
And that's why hard drives aren't dead yet, such high density storage.
Yosuru
Exactly!
@@Yosuru Another reason is read and write cycles of hard disk is much higher than ssd. It'll keep running for years and people can also repair it. Ssds have much lower read/write cycles
This is actually a pretty down-to-earth and informative video
The "neat little sounds" it makes when you opened a folder is exactly that which is shown in movies! I always thought that was a made up sound.
me: tries opening folder on my computer
hard drive: intense movement intensifies
Nobody:
RUclips: Take a look inside a hard drive while it’s running.
Me:
.. why not 🤷♂️
How about, stfu with this meme 🤷♂️
stfu pls
sincerely, everyone
Okay Ronald
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Che community di merda..
Dont shut up ronald
Great grandson of vinyl records...
Great video. Even after having been using computers for decades I always wanted to do this but never did.
He: So as you can see it started doing some work...
The arm: *moves one milion times in a second*
you pointed at the data and the power on the SATA connection incorrectly.
so the smaller section is the data and vice versa?
@@TheWuBzChannel yes
Yes smaller side is data wider side is power...5volts and 3.3 volts etc
I was looking for this comment
Hello geeky guys!
When u were showing it at 0:24 the data feed is on the left... the smaller one.
Nice video though. That's cool
I pointed that out to myself. Glad to know I’m not the only one who knew the right order, hehe.
Thanks for your comment, I got really confused between what I already knew and this one.
6:45 The hardest worker ever! Period.
Seeing that thing run is almost unreal.
Amazing how fast and acurate it operates. And still last for years.
This is giving me vibe of world end by technology
How?
You see how smart and fast technology is becoming and soon gonna defeat all human capabilities like thinking that pin was moving so fast it gave me that vibe
@@swapnilpatil7326 yea but hard drive were here forever
@@swapnilpatil7326 the pin is sure moving so fast but the fastness in computer is shit
It's the computer's processing power. Not the hard drive.
When we dive deep into old techs its always amaze you.. Look the speed of the r/w head. With the precision
This stuff is so interesting....I'm surprised that it doesn't have over a million views yet
Wouldn't exposure to the elements corrupt the drive? Such as the introduction of dust particles and whatnot.
Yeah and then this video won't be possible to make
its much like opening up a corpse, cant get it back to the way it was, but it is informative at least
Basically NEVER DO THIS! And if you do, only with a drive that you don't care about the data.
I wonder if once this drive inevitably breaks down, if some data could still be salvaged, but I wouldn't expect much.
yes, it will break it down in the long run. I'm guessing the creator didn't care about this drive.
yes, however data recovery stores will often have a clean room or box that the drive is less likely to get dirty in. The only reason to open a drive is in a worst case scenario where small physical repairs are necessary in order to attempt to get the drive to work again long enough to get any important data off. If you get a drive repaired, do not use it as it most likely will fail within a few days or weeks.
Spinning can only happen with DC current because it moves in one direction only. But the city power you used is AC which oscillates at a frequency of around 50/60 Hz which causes a switching in the magnetic field and basically results in a push-pull effect and results in a net zero force and does'nt cause the spinning of the spinner.
That's how an AC motor works. But a computer has a power supply to convert 110 AC to 12v and 5v DC power. Hard drives have DC stepper motors in them.
@@vsvenson Oh
@@vsvenson im pretty sure its a brushless motor. Steppers are slow af
That was actually really cool to see it run! Very well made video!
Wow thats crazy how precise that has to be ..no wonder hard drives fail so often....technology is crazy nowadays
When my Xbox One hard drive goes idle while I'm not using any data you hear an audible "click" which is the drive head returning home to the rest position. I used to think it was actually the drive failing and I got paranoid but once I figured out it was the mechanics of the hard drive doing this I chilled out... As long as it is a single click that only happens once in a while and not in a long series of clicks then you have nothing to worry about in your Xbox One. As long as no physical trauma happens or any severe electrical surges occur a drive will rarely go out. If you are an Xbox One/One S/One X owner and you hear a click once in a while, rest easy... It is just the read/write drive arm going back to home position!
*Take a look inside a human body while it's running*
hold up
LOL
*hol' up*
FBI Open Up
thats just called surgery
that's looks pretty alien and abstract tbh
Wow I now have alot more respect fore my hard drive, even tho it's slow af I know it's trying it's best.
SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE... i hate my life
A SSHD is a complete different product.
Shut up, nerd
@@horaryzappy I was calling the other guy a nerd
@@horaryzappy I'm just playing
@@horaryzappy Why so angry my dude?
I mean you could be faster than the speed of light and yet there's an ssd still faster than you.
Is this an Asian joke
@@mrmaniac3 lol
Sonic is shaking
@@johnwest6977 hehe
its great that u made this short video a 8min for a good reason
ive never known what was the meaning of SSD or even the difference between it and the hard drive thank you very much