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- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57Parts of a defrag would have been interesting to see as well. Nice video.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57On a Quick Format, he says "notice the quick swipe of the head" as if the write head just overwrote the entire disk. What actually happened is the drive went to the edge and simply overwrote the File Allocation Table. But other than that, pretty cool video.
- xyqxyq, on 10/12/2007, -13/+62Could he be any more ghetto; using a small paper sign with his website on it?
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40"Does the thing (the reader needle thingy) get off the hard drive in some way?"
No. The hard drive would suffer permanent damage in such an event. Windows crashes are different than hard drive crashes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36That is one old-ass drive.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Erases the master boot record? Holy *****, we'd all be screwed if every quick format did that.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32The movement of the armature is the clicking noise, not the read/write process.
- DontFretBrett, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35his little paper plug for his website reminded me of the napleon intro
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35Not everyone knows how to use Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premier.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31"MAGIC I TELL YOU" -someone on youtube
- CosmicJustice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Sure, he could just sit back and bitch about what other people are doing on their websites.
- Vwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28having his sign physically in the video might be a way to show that it was really him who made it and not someone editing over his into.
- TJ09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27If you look at the beginning, the label on the top says it's a "Samsung WU32543A," which I found, after some quick Googling, is a 2.54 GB hard drive from around 1997
- E1M1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27The arm actuator can make more than just ticking sounds: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GT2WrsCDmI !
- killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26i did that once.. then took a sharipe to it and made crazy wall art
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Obviously it was old... would you open up and use a new one?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25I always open my new hard drives to cool down the data.
- turbodigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Wouldnt that harddrive be screwed? Now that its been exposed to dust?
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Older hard drives had that problem because they were not auto-parking. When power is lost they lost the small air gap between the head and platter and the head ends up scratching the disc and possibly damaging the head as well. The clicking sounds are just due to the very rapid movements.
- mikewitt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I agree. He was able to make labels of "Copy and Paste" "Deleting a Folder" Etc..., but not able to put in a plug for his site?
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18So here's some questions, how is the head (or the "needle") making that ticking sound? Is it physically touching the disk or if it never touches the disk, how does losing power ruin some hard drives?
- Dustyb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Cool footage. Now what would really be cool would be to see this under high speed camera.
- fr34k5h0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15it'd probably put the data in the shape of a penguin /sarc
- ephemere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I thought the same thing, but we all noticed it, right? Mission accomplished...
- dignation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It is still very interesting watching the actual hard drive doing work, instead of trying to imagine it while watching a book.
- Zanneth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13We all know what happens when we mix two dangerous chemicals together. A huge explosion! Wouldn't it be cool to see a video of it?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Shhhhh..... Part 2 of the video is what a hard drive looks like when the head crashes.
Haha, that would be more exciting. - TJ09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I know how a hard drive works, but there's a difference between reading about something and seeing parts of it happen.
- combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's probably an old hard drive that he was going to trash anyway.
- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Deleting a directory in DOS/win9X was super-slow under normal circumstances, as the FAT would be updated for each file deleted (as each file was removed) from what I recall. The bit of the video showing deletion of files is just like I remember it sounding on my old computer.
With MS' "Smartdrive" (smartdrv.exe) running, the FAT would only be modified once after deleting the files - so not only would deleting many files be faster, there would be considerably less noise given the read/write head didn't have to move between wherever the files were on the disk, and the FAT for each file.
(I could be completely wrong on the above, but this is what I remember - correct me if I'm mistaken.)
While this was somewhat educational, I really enjoyed this other related video: A bunch of hard disk platters being let loose while spinning, running across the floor and going airborne, nearly hitting the ceiling! (Apparently made by a bored IT department.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8&mode=related&search= - dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Losing power in an of itself doesn't ruin hard drives. It may cause data corruption, but reformat or replace the corrupted data and you are good, the drive itself is fine. Just like the video showed, powering off a drive will simply park the heads. I imagine ripping out the molex power connector in mid operation would have the same effect, probably nothing a checkdisk or fsck couldn't fix but that's all related to the data.
Power surges, drops on hard surfaces, exposure to extreme magnetic fields... these things will ruin a hard drive and each one for different reasons (or basically, ruin different functions/parts of the drive potentially). - dignation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7but everything moves slower in the middle...
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes, it would be, which is why the case of a hard drive is glued and screwed in place. That hard drive is probably ruined.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12A magnet parks the head automatically at the end of the disk.
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The same way it would look like if you installed windows..
- tekmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Create a windowd hard drive:
http://case-mod-nexus.com/linear/hard-drive-window-2/ - jsreid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6he said in the description on youtube that it was an old hard drive, so i am sure he doesnt care about it.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, it definitely will be more prone to failure in the future I would think. Not to mention he voided the warranty.
- alrahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Thats what I thought, but apparently not.
- julielacombe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Definitely. the seek pattern would probably look quite random.
After seeing that head go wild, I'm not really surprised about how people keep reporting that their hard drive go dead.. Speaking of dead Hard Drive, this reminds me of an article about freezing Hard Drives to recover data.. here'S the link: http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html - AngryBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Who do you know that has a PhD in computer programming?
I'm guessing that anyone claiming to have a PhD in computer programming doesn't know what a hard drive is because they're full of *****. They're probably like, 12 year old kids that have no idea what they're talking about. I bet they also go around insulting other people they think aren't as l33t as they are. They're "assheads" alright. - TheTrueAPlus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Where is defragment. That would be crazy head movement.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have done this.. after watching a simular vid.. i have several hds in various states of deconstruction.
The magnets that control the arm are cool and wicked powerful... they can hurt bad if they snap together, pinching skin - u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if he had shown defragmenting, that would have been at least a 10 minute video...
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Special screwdriver? You mean a regular Phillips?
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not sure if they're still the same, but 'back in the day', if you ever wanted to do anything on a Compaq, you really needed your Torx15 with you.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, many of them use torx type screws. The advantage of torx is that they are harder to strip out (cam out). Some people assume they use these type of screws to prevent people from opening the hard-drive but really, torx screwdrivers can be purchased at most hardware stores. It's just that most people don't happen to have a set of torx screwdrivers.
- krasht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The heads and the platter don't touch and they are so close that even smoke particles are enough to make them "touch". So, the drive is most likely screwed.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Not really, he was probably copying a fair amount of data off of the drive so he could format it. Doing that to a different drive/partition with a fair amount of data is a lot different than doing it within the same drive/partition - in that case only the tables change and it takes less than a second, otherwise all of the data has to be read and then transferred. Try it some time and not the difference in disk activity.
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