Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@lilblackduc7312 says : I needed to see the formatting procedure, Professor! Thank you...🇺🇸 👍☕>> <<@dev1ator_yt says : I didn't even hear drive over this video. And that is Enterprise class, allegedly noisy as they get... and 7200rpm... Does helium reduce the noise ??? Or what it is that makes it "nice & quiet" 4:40 "very quiet indeed" 7:58 ? I'm considering buying Toshiba S300 5400rpm "22-24dB" "most quiet - idle". Before that I was planning to get MG series 6 8 or 10GB but I don't want to buy annoying noisy drive forever... I will do more research on my own but if someone has personal recommendation which hdd of Toshiba to buy I'm all ears.. My requirements: quiet operation idle/workload 6, 8 or 10TB>> <<@ZKStockGeneral says : What happens when you start getting hardware sector errors?>> <<@Ancipital_ says : Pounds, Dollars, but no Eurocoins 😢>> <<@iskandartaib says : Right now there is huge amounts of used enterprise drives for sale, most of them were retired from data centers. They typically retire drives after 3-5 years, and there is plenty of life left on the drives, especially in a light duty desktop PC or home NAS environment. Prices are very reasonable, at about 50% of MSRP of a new unit. Often you get a vendor's warranty ranging from a few months up to three years (you have to pay more for the warranty). Crystal Disk Info will tell you how long the drive has already been used, though some vendors zero out the time and power on count stats. To figure out whick models are best, there are quite a few videos that rely on Backblaze's statistics - they're a public backup service with tens of thousands of drives in service, and they make all this information available. From what I've seen, the cream of the cream is Western Digital's Ultrastar line. This line was inherited from HGST, which WD bought. The current large WD Gold drives are also Ultrastars (some even say "Powered by Ultrastar" on the label). Seagate's EXOS line is OK too, but the earlier X12 and X14 drives have a higher failure rate than the X16 and later. Backblaze data and further testing by others seems to suggest that Toshiba drives aren't as good. For anyone looking to upgrade a PC's hard drive, I'd just avoid all desktop and NAS-grade drives, including WD Blacks, and go for one or two used enterprise drives. They actually cost less than used NAS drives. Use a SSD for the boot/application disk and one of these enterprise disks for storage. Get a second enterprise disk to back up the first one, and set up, say, Synctoy to do daily backups. The only drawback to these drives is noise, particularly at startup - despite that, I find it barely noticeable. And these large drives don't really use that much power - the 16 TB HC550 Ultrastar uses 6.5 watts, 5.5 watts at idle. When you first install the hard drive, check the SMART stats, and do a whole surface scan - format them as in this video, or run chkdsk /r.>> <<@xladk says : I have seen you upgrade your storage media a lot of time, why not combine the old one with the new one? making a raid system instead of replacing it?>> <<@BOplaid says : Fantastic video, I've recently bought a 2TB WD Blue HDD, and I wanted to ask if an anti static band is needed for handling internal HDDs?>> <<@zabique says : how is the drive so far? i want to get 4x20tb and still not sure if it's reliable or not.>> <<@jediknight108 says : Thanks, Hare Krishna!>> <<@gtrdriver27 says : What is the current situation of your hard drive? I thought that toshiba had stopped manufacturing hard drives...>> <<@rrcoster says : I do like Lacie hard drive cases work well>> <<@USAF_MEDIC70 says : I need all the space of these large drives for my download collection of movies but the 20 seconds I have to wait every time I access it after it has spun down is annoying. It also takes this much time everytime I do an install of any program that dioes a disk space check for install. The alternative is very expensive SSD's.>> <<@Hugh_I says : How to fill up new 16TB harddrive? Easy! Let computer finish the following sentence and store it as an uncompressed text file: Explaining Computers is making a video about buying a new harddrive to store backup of a video about buying a new harddrive to store backup of a video about buying a new harddrive to store backup of ....>> <<@JohnnyMotel99 says : Which connection would give best throughput on the Quadra? USB3 or ESATA? Would you still get the 200Mbs transfer speeds?>> <<@wojciechczupta says : did you say it was quiet in operations? Would you expect 18TB and 20TB to be quiet as well?>> <<@JohnnyCarutasu says : How are the noise levels please?>> <<@DAVIDGREGORYKERR says : I have a 3TiB WD drive which has seized up and doesn't work anymore but there is a lot of data on the drive which can no longer be recovered, I suspect that a 16TiB SSD might be better.>> <<@sunjalicaskitalica8687 says : 헬륨: Check the SMART stastistics (ALWAYS MONTHLY!)>> <<@leightaylor8069 says : CMR - very important.>> <<@bobmcbob4399 says : Thanks EC. I have been umming and ahhing about this one for several months now. Have had nice experience with WD Blacks (4 and 6TB) that I bought years ago, but their reputation seems to be lower now with SMR being used and their rebranding with the "GAMING" tag to inflate the price even further. Yet, we can get more capacious "ENTERPRISE" branded drives for less than WD from a good HDD maker. Things have changed I guess. I got ordered my one from scan too, it's 10£ more than you paid when you made the video.>> <<@notsoseagatey says : I really like the way it looks. I hope I can get one someday>> <<@piotr2951 says : jesus this was a waste of time>> <<@davidgoodnow269 says : Years and years ago, I came across the recommendation to do a full secure-erase, the eight-way rewrite, as a way of stress-testing new hard disk drives. This was at a time when many new factory drives were failing, days or months in. It worked then, and I highly recommend it still!>> <<@itsevilbert says : One thing that is not mentioned in relation to helium filled drives is that after ~5 years the helium inside leaves (to eventually match the level in the air outside : 5.24 parts per million). And in effect the heads without that super low friction lubrication (fluid) are vacuum welded to the platters. So fantastic for data centers but bad for long term archiving of data, unless you plan to migrate the data every ~5 years.>> <<@cryptearth says : datasheet: error rate 10 in 10^16 bits ok - so 10^16 bits are 1.250.000.000.000.000 bytes - about 1,1 petabyte - so that's about 70x the entire drive read - now if we cut the additional zero that means one will encounter one unrecoverable read error every 7x 16tb = 112tb read (as 10 in 10^16 is about 1 in 10^15) - lasting only 7 full reads until your drive is dead? wow - that's so not worth it also: your typical drive usually has only 1 in 10^14 - that's only about 11,2TB - so a disk with 12 or more TB can'T even be read once until it's dead! don't be stupid - don't buy drives over 10TB - rather buy more of them and setup a raid - the initial cost is a bit higher - but your data will be save>> <<@tembak88 says : Are you able to read the hard disk smart data ? I am not able to...>> <<@mikewatson1105 says : Okay, you inspired me to do it! I checked the price on Amazon Australia, and the 20TB was the same price price as the 18TB, and the same price per byte as the 16TB. Formatting just completed after 24 hours, 58 minutes. and all seems to be working well after following your direction with extreme care. Thank you so much! Mike.>> <<@marcse7en says : I was looking at this drive. Apparently, Toshiba use "special welding" to retain the internal helium. HELIUM: "When it's gone, it's gone!" 🤣 However, after the recent "One by WACOM*" debacle, I'm not sure? * The "One by WACOM" Graphics Tablet is the WORST piece of computer equipment I've EVER had the misfortune to use! ... I hope I never encounter anything so UTTERLY HORRENDOUS ever again!>> <<@adriacarles3052 says : Don't buy Toshiba HDDs. Toshiba does not respect warranty.>> <<@Tony-Stockport says : I used to buy Computer Shopper (UK Version) in the 90's when I was just getting into digital audio recording. I remember drooling over an ad for a Seagate 9Gb drive costing £3k. By comparison my £150 phone comes with 128Gb. There's no denying the progress we've made.>> <<@roelfbackus says : Asianometry - The Wobbly Future of the Hard Disk Drive Industry (20240919) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2lCsWr39A>> <<@maxrobe says : It's bad enough having to backup 2TB drives.>> <<@maximilianholland says : Thank you Chris. Personally, having had one or two "incidents" with vertical HDD cases falling over during operation and killing the drive, I was eying the LeCie with some dread. Perhaps you position them in such a way as to make falls almost impossible, and I would certainly recommend that cautionary step for the average user. I haven't used HDDs for critical data since 2007 due to this potential vulnerability, but I can see that - as one backup location of many - no single failure would be fatal. Anyway, I'm sure this new drive will serve you well for many years to come. Godspeed for your next 1M subscribers!>> <<@Junkie1027a says : To be able to collect all my 1TB disks in to one disk, I recently bought a 20TB MG10 and I swear I remember exact same sound from 20~ years ago. It is a Fujitsu!>> <<@Frankhe78 says : The Toshiba MC8 series are excellent drives. I have two of them in my NAS in a mirror set configuration. Approaching 32000 operating hours and I expect them to last for some years to come. I find them actually quite noisy, but hey, these are enterprise drives. The performance is very much enterprise, fast and reliable. A good price point for a 16 TB storage need.>> <<@darrenadams2640 says : I only ever bought one of those Lacie drives as it was was expensive but put together very poorly. One of the casing screws had been put through the ribbon cable meaning it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't!>> <<@techofebd says : Toshiba good.>> <<@shawnvines2514 says : I started a full format of a 14GB drive and it is taking longer than a day. Is there any faster way to do a full format of a large drive?>> <<@Mae-nr7wr says : i guess not even explainingcomputers is doing blu-ray backups anymore>> <<@Mae-nr7wr says : if someone thinks this is much.. Seagate is coming out with a 32TB soon>> <<@awo1fman says : I've had very good luck with Toshiba HDDs. I've never had a Toshiba drive fail. I used to exclusively use WD until they shipped their manufacturing overseas, and haven't had a single WD since then that has not failed prematurely, immediately after the warranty ran out. I've had good luck with Seagate, until a 2.5" external drive failed, again immediately after the warranty ran out, so now I'm a bit gunshy of them, at least their 2.5" slim drives.>> <<@kuchesezik says : please stop shaking them 😱>> <<@TheFartfish says : And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)>> <<@Taiwan-is-independent-country says : I don't understand why we still cannot have a 16TB SSD now. Is it really still difficult to make high-capacity SSD?>> <<@relaxingnature2617 says : Idd like to see a dirt cheap SATA SSD comparison video of -- 120gb vs 240gb vs 500gb vs 1tb vs 2 tb to see if the bigger ones really are faster -- aswell as a wear out test of the cheapest tiny capacity sata ssd eg a 64gb or 120gb, write erase write erase write erase etc -- and HD tune test and crystal disk mark>> <<@relaxingnature2617 says : cool ..very nice HardDrive>> <<@JS-wl3gi says : I do the same thing, 1 TB to 4 TB, trust me you can never have to much in this day and time. I still some of my drives from 10 years ago and they still run great.>> <<@robyn6521 says : Wow, that LaCie D2 Quadra enclosure is a beast!>> <<@SYN-flood says : *16:39* ERROR: not 5TiB but 500GiB HDD. 🙃>> <<@ent3r807 says : Before testing copy and paste speed we should disable the windows drive cache on that hard disk, if not, windows will use some ram to speed up data transfer und let the drive work partly in the background, anyway the time is not correct.>>