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!
@ArcticTraveller-o7s Says:
Hi Christopher, I noticed that you have formatted your backup drive using the NTFS rather than ExFat which is compatible with Mac OS and Linux OS, is there any particular reason[s] why?
@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 ;-)
@古代馬鈴薯 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.
@Churchill250267 Says:
Your best backup is only as good as your last restore. 16TB, that's a lot of data to have in one lump.
@danmanx2 Says:
Thank you Chris! I love these simple installation videos. Only true nerds will understand how satisfying upgrading an old hard drive to a bigger capacity is!
@alihart Says:
That enclosure! Palaver is the only word. Although Faff would do at a pinch 😃
@davidareeves Says:
Considering as a kid, I though a 10MB HDD was big. Thanks for the test
@OM-bs7of Says:
Hmm storage technology size isn't exploding as much as it used to in the past. Wonder why's that?
@MrMattberry1 Says:
I love the whole 80s feel of your videos, including the music, it's great!
@ManChunPoon Says:
how long does it take to transfer data from your old 5tb drive to new 16tb drive?
@RuruFIN Says:
I'd try my best for filling that drive with cat pictures. :)
@rs.matr1x Says:
I have one of these LaCie D2 Quadras, unfortunately its the USB 2 / Firewire 400 / esata version so won't do 16TB. Oh well, still works fine with my old G4 Mac Mini.
@randomtask9029 Says:
I recognize that distinctive red handle shape - it's Stanley the screwdriver, isn't it?
@spx2327 Says:
Those damn noisy packaging!
@JoeStoppinghem Says:
I remember buying my first large HD, 300MB. I thought I had all the space I’d ever need, paid $300.00
@debbierich961 Says:
I love your videos. Very interesting. Have you ever done one on multicore processors? In particular, how the OS assigns tasks to each one. Can the cores share data or code? Can various applications written in C or Python for instance, make use of more than one core? One core might be crunching numbers on data that another core is reading. Is there any high level language that can be set up to run multiple threads on multiple cores?
@Puretea4711 Says:
Is this a channel for preschoolers?
@reinoud6377 Says:
Oh the backing up.... thats normally a nightmare. But OTOH, most is static i guess
@ClayWheeler Says:
Just a reminder, Toshiba is parent company of Kioxia.
In the past, Toshiba created SSD as well, but now, SSD became its own division Company, which is Kioxia
@СергейД-ч4ь Says:
200MB/S for HDD is something absolutely amazing. Only a half of usual sata SSD.
@rsb3609 Says:
I do really like that Lacie....... Very neat.What will you do with the 5tb?.The 16tb drive is £239.00 (as I write this) on amazon.
@DamoDGCUK Says:
I love Scan Computers, I am like a kid in a candy store there :)
@yagoa Says:
I have had 2 of these in RAID-0(32TB) for 3 years and am very satisfied
@williamlau7179 Says:
Now 240828, drives are more expensive as compared a year ago, ssd +70% & hdd +50%. Purchased toshiba n300 8t at us$170 last year, now it is us$260.
@frankcherry3810 Says:
Are they protected from EMP?
@leonidd00 Says:
Honestly I am surprised with that good transfer rate of 200 MB/s 😮
Maybe it is possible to do a video and compare modern fast HDDs?
@npr1300A8 Says:
I'm ready to back my 2nd NAS drive up. I have a collection of WD red 10TB drives that were in my old EX2 NAS drives. However, I've added videos here, videos there over the last 4 years or so making my backups a bit of a mess! I should sit down and check out all my drives for duplicates of videos etc. I use a docking device rather than an enclosures but store the drives in individual hard cases, so they're well protected when stored.
Update. I've purchased a Toshiba 18TB HDD from the lads at Scan. I need to back my WD PR4100 up and this drive will cover the job. 👍🏻
@DeHelmonder Says:
16TB! Incredible, I bought a 6TB around 5 or so years ago and that still seems huuuge :)
@fabiospiesanzotti Says:
why are you formatting the drive in ntfs instead of refs ?
@fabiospiesanzotti Says:
yesssss... and how can you cool this huge hard drive with no fans ?
@11thHourRecords Says:
Of course the price of this model went up to £284 while I was shopping... Now I wonder how it compares to the Toshiba MG09 Enterprise 18TB (MG09ACA18TE) for the same money? 🤔
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