Rip my amazing hard drive.. 2010 - 2019, you will be missed so dearly. And my computer was never backed up... My computer just got slower and slower over time, and the hard drive was well maintained. I swept it under the rug and assumed it was age. And that was when it failed. All my data. My Minecraft worlds I spent years in and on. My process using custom redirects. Gone. Idk if I’ll ever play Minecraft again since my motivation has been lost ever since it happened
Bruh, that really sucks. Now I want to backup all my worlds next time I get my computer on. I hope you can eventually get your motivation back, even if it will probably take a long time after that.
To much lightning near computer. And lil' jimmy was playig. Zap. Outside house. Inside telly stops and computer ssd Sez Fk my lief I got 81 viruses anyway
Honestly it's the best setup to have an SSD for your programs and OS with a mechanical drive for mass storage. It reduces the wear and tear on both drives and it makes sure that the mechanical drive has plenty of downtime and only spins up when it has to. Even for me with a Seagate drive as a mass storage drive it's lasted me years with no problems whatsoever
+BagelCollector Not only that, you can create images of the boot drive to your mass storage. (I use Macrium Reflect). SSD dies, no problem, buy a new one, boot with rescue media, re-image it with the original. If it's a bigger drive, then in Windows after you boot, just extend the partition to its full size. No headaches. I use 2x3TB in Raid-1 for mass storage.
You are a man/woman of patience. When i had windows 7/10 installed on my presario in the past, it took close to an hour and i just gave up on it, without trying to restart it like an idiot.
My primary SSD gets BSOD ~3 times/day. Failing? Srsly fcking never buying OCZ again. They send drives without updated firmware even if the drives have been out for like ~4months.
I had similar problems with my NEW rig. Figgin W8 version of BSOD was happening at least three times a day. Turned out was the memory controller and after a BIOS update and a firmware update for the SSD all is good with the world again.
If you're on a Mac, you can easily tell if your HDD is failing or not macOS write protects damaged partitions and failing drives, but at the same time won't boot off of a write protected drive (will automatically power off during boot) and if a HDD isn't your system volume, then it'll say that the partition is too damaged to write to or something like that
Would it be better to have a tower lying on its side than standing upright. Mine has rubber feet (Dell) on the side panel. Excellent video by the way!! Thank you.
i have a 12 year old WD enhanced IDE hard disk on my gaming machine that still works perfectly well. I had no idea heat was one of the causes of hdd failure, thankfully my custom case has the intake fan cool the hard drive first.
You forgot to mention one other cause of hard drive failure that I just discovered disassembling my gf external HD… *full of cockroaches.* And cockroach egg cases, and cockroach shit. Oh and it's been left on continuously for almost a decade, including for the last two weeks after it stopped reading and started beeping 🤯 Oh this is going to be a _fun decade._
my dad had a custom gaming PC built in 2005 made to run The Sims 2 at max settings (lol). The HDD had 250gb, which was pretty good for a HDD back then. I have it in my PC right now (Mostly used for movies, tv shows, general media) and it clicks, but quietly. I'm not sure what to make of it. It has had a memory leak before, but it seemed to fix itself, and other than that it has never misbehaved. Also, WD FTW. 11 Year old hard drive has outlived two of my Seagates.
I've had this, but I ignored it. My pc was incredibly slow sometimes, freezing, and absolutely just non-responding. I have the "This pc needs to be repaired" error, and now I have to get a new hard drive and install windows.
not a bug its caused by windows update , type services in task bar search and search for windows update -proprieties - stop and disable -apply that should fix it
i have 6-7 year old drives no errors, haven't been used often at all, how much longer you think ill get if i use it(turn it on every week) 0 i'm using a drive dock bay
I bought my hard drive in 2010, and checking SMART or CrystalDiskInfo as another comment said shows that my harddrive is perfectly fine. We might've just gotten luck, and we also could have drives that suddenly fail without warning. I could buy an HDD and start backing up properly, but I might roll the dice a little longer.
In my experience you can get approximately 10 years of life out of a good hard drive. Best manufactures are Seagate and Western Digital. Although the old cheap and cheerful "Maxtor" was an incredibly robust drive.
Seagate is almost universally known as the worst. WD is good though. I've had Seagate drives die after 3 years, not a single dead WD even with the oldest one I have being 14 years old.
I use diskeeper from conducive technologies. Man, it made my harddrive disciplined !! My laptop is almost a decade old; and I still run 32-bit windows vista in it (ahem😆😆😆 ). But after I started using diskeeper, its speed noticeably improved. It still gets very hot if I use it continuously for 6 to 8 hours, but not as before (earlier, it used to get hot just after one and a half hours !!!). I thought I should share it in this forum because I know a lot of people do not fall for "designed obsolescence" of computer/laptop/cellphone companies and change their machines every six months. ( Heck, nowadays, even the shopowners of laptops and computers give the ill-advice of throwing your old one after every two year and buy a new one. What a hideous world this is ..... )
I remember last year, my laptop was running slower and many files did fail to load and after erasing those corrupted files and reinstalled them via a back it did work again. But eventualy windows could no longer startup even not after following those preceedures,so i decided to check it out be a friend to try backup remaining parts but his pc just did locked up and after many attemps we decided to give up because that broken harddisk may could,ve a virus in it to ruin. His pc, likely for me, i got backups of stuff on usb sticks in cases like this.
I've been using a 200GB Maxtor HDD for almost 10 years (as my C drive) in my everyday PC. I realized that a few days ago and I'm going to substitute it as a precaution, but who knows for how much longer it could go.
Holy shit.. Maxtor huhI still have a 10GB IDE Maxtor and 20GB IDE , just for antiquity sake.for the record the drives still workbut they are more like huge USB sticks these days, than actual Hard DrivesUpgrade Your HDD Dude
The only HDD I have that seems to be going through major issues is one in a vintage computer that I have, it has heavy fragmentation and some files are corrupted on it. There's nothing important on there so I'm probably going to run over it with DBAN. I haven't done a SMART test on it yet but I imagine it wouldn't be pretty.
Personally, I don't trust S.M.A.R.T. anymore. My last failing drive had several of these warning symptoms, like constantly spinning up and down even when idle, really weird clicking noises, horrible reading speed in the range of 2-3 MB/s. So I performed an S.M.A.R.T. test, which took almost 30 minutes to complete, but still showed up as "Excellent!". Yeah. Right.
Do you have a solution? I plug in just my NVME drive with windows it loads up normally to desktop I then Plug in two SSDs with the NVME restart the computer it loads up normally to desktop. I then turn it off and have the above installed but add a 4tb mechanical hard drive it goes into the windows boot process with my profile pic then goes to black screen for about two minutes before the desktop appears and its normal again
@@Funkoh Maybe if he got rid of it he'd get some bitches on his tech. Oh, better yet, maybe Yvonne'll call his dog ass if she stop fuckin' with that CEO or PC Engineer she fuckin' with.
Samster Birdies I don't believe that. I just think that with hard drives that spin faster, made thinner, faster etc. Or just anything being like that, where more complexity and more stress on the product. It just wears out faster. The materials just fail. It's not even a question of design, just a matter of material limits. In engineering we are pushing the boundaries of materials and manufacturing, especially when there is a compromise for cost. I don't think anyone actually wants a harddrive that can last 20 years anyway. Technology advances too fast.
Samster Birdies yes. I meant no general consumer though. I didn't mean it like archive disks and back ups. General consumers don't want it, well wouldn't use it anyway just because of the technology difference in 20 years.
I have one (of several other) 14 year old drive in my pc and it still runs. How lucky am I with that? Lol, I'm not showing off, I'm actualy a little bit worried.
I have a WD 1 TB and a Samsung 840 evo 256gb which are still going strong since 2014. I was thinking about swapping them out but theres really no reason to since they both passed their SMART tests. SSD might run out of write space though here soon. Upgrading the 970 is first on the list right now.
CrystalDiskInfo says my hdd is "good" but it makes a "scratching sound" every now and then even when its not doing anything should i worry? the read/writes seam ok.
@@stevenwarne69 You should still back up even if it says it's fine, like linus said, hdd's can fail without warning. So the best option would be to just transfer the files you don't want to lose to an external hdd. Things like programs/games can be reinstalled, so you don't really need to back them up.
@@BlazertronGames luckily most of it is just games but yeah, you are right i should pick up a back up drive just in case its better safe than sorry, thanks bud
Alexandru Ionescu i'm actually using every drive i ever bought into this pc.. there are 4 hdds and 2 ssds in it.. 1. was an old wd 500 gb drive i bought it about 8 or 9 years ago with my first computer.. 2. is a samsung 750 gb drive 3. is a samsung 1.5 tb drive 4. is a samsung 2 tb drive 5 is a samsung 830 series 256 gb drive for windows, games and software 6. is a sandisk 128 gb ssd for arch linux.. all still work fine.. smart perfect.. once i got problems with pretty bad transfer rates but it turned out as a bad sata cable..
Dunkelelf3 I used to have the same problem with the bad transfer rates you mentioned but I found out the motherboard I was previously using was bad...thank god when I rebuilt my old gaming machine for my little brother I had to use a different motherboard to do so as my old motherboard died from a burnt out RAM frequency crystal.
Power Max Make sure the Drives and disks, are clean and perfectly working and qualty ones, also if you buy new floppy disks, dont. They are absolute crap these days, I have 3 year old ones which are dead but 1 decade old ones fully functinonal.
*accidentally overclocked your SATA bus* XD I'd love to see what sort of tool tries to overclock their processor and ends up overclocking their SATA controller. I'm guessing Linus is talking from some sort of horrific overclocking experience there.
+TheRebel3000 back in the duron/athlon/celeron/pentium era, clocking was primarily done with FSB, where most gain could be obtain. one could go VERY high with it by lowering the multiplier on AMD chips but the problem was PCI/ISA clocks were tied with fixed dividers (similar to what BCLK does nowadays), so going over say 37.5MHz could easily lead to data corruption despite forcing a higher voltage to the 3.3 line responsible for powering such parts. the "problem" was first solved by the best chipset ever made (at that time), "nVidia nForce II", which used a completely decoupled fsb/pci clock generator and as well as providing fine 1MHz tuning for the fsb. the best boards with this tech were the ABIT NF7 series and the DFI Lanparty NF2 ultra B.
Finally, a video that actually tells you when the HDD fails, and what to exactly watch out for! Was getting concerned about the read/write clicking sound, but definitely don't hear that click of death I've seen on multiple videos. Fingers crossed that its okay, but have backed up data in case its getting ready to fail.
I was looking at a technical manual for an old 1998 Seagate SCSI drive, and was really impressed by the amount of detail they went into. As far as temperature, it specified acceptable temperatures for 4 different components, and gave a diagram of where to measure them on the drive. For the head and disk assembly, this particular drive gave the maximum temp as 65C, but strongly recommended not exceeding 55C, and said that temperatures above 45C would reduce the operating life. They also gave an adjustment factor for altitude, and went on to discuss airflow. Manuals I saw from the early/mid-2000s just give a maximum ambient air temperature surrounding the drive, not for any components of the drive itself, and give no guidance on the optimal range. They also give less detail on reliability. Manuals for today's drives give even less information, and in many cases they aren't even manuals at all, they're just a 2 page pamphlet with a few basic specs in a chart. The old manuals were over 100 pages. They took their products a lot more seriously back then.
Hey Linus I've been watching your videos for a \while and haven't seen anything about knowing if you PSU is failing I have a Evga Nex750B and recently its been making a whining noise so I was just wondering if that means it failing.
this is a common on transformers in general that they are dying, but bear in mind allot of transformers will make a whining noise if they have a high load or a wery low load, so if you resently changed the system that might be it
Here's a bit of a cool story. I have a 250gb seagate hdd right. So there I was making music. Just finished exporting new track that I spent several hours on. Avast gives me a notice that it's detected win32 malware gen. Decide to run malwarebytes All g. Computer restarts. Apparently something happened along that process and my computer is now on an infinite restart loop. The OS got funky cause the hdd decided it was a good idea to y'know, fail, there were certain crucial files related to the OS that the hdd decided was unimportant. They went bye-bye and got corrupted during the whole get rid if this virus deal. At first I thought it was the virus that somehow managed to fuck up my computer. But it was actually just the hard drive going spastic.
Damn. Just in case you don't know, if you are lucky and the track is still intact, you can retrieve it by booting from your bios into a bootable USB like hirens boot or any other tool. from there you can enter to, for example, miniwindows xp, and retrieve any file that isn't dead. Good luck!
Could it be a small PC case? Have you checked which processes access how much the hard drive? Defragmentation could help too, at least it sorts data , so it can be read much quicker.
if hard drives can fail from just a short drop of say 2.5' then how can they stand up going through the mail. knowing that the mail system is unforgiving?
They were all dead. The final write command was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the mouse button. And then it was all over. To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back six years. Back to the night the channel was created.
My HDD is making weird sounds all the time and my pc freezes too often when accessing a game off of it, I have my OS on a separate SSD. Is my HDD done, should i get a new one, are there some diagnostics i can run?
Windows shuts off unused drives. So if you start a game after you havent used your HDD the last 10-30 minutes, then it needs to start the HDD again and that needs some seconds, which is absolutely fine. If youre starting the game, close it and open a movie on the same drive and then it still freezes, then it might be a problem. Just use SMART and look at the state of your drive and youll see.
Villee.. if youre talking about something like logitech gaming software, that isnt actually running all the time and the driver itself indeed is on your system partition.
Holy shit, Extremely slow transfer rate is one of the symptoms of m internal lappy drive, didnt know until now. Good thing I already bought a new one due to the agony of trying to use it and fix it with conventional software like defragmenting it,etc. Got a faster running drive now. This video is helpful. Thanks. As of now I'm actually backing up slowly my data from this still working yet super slow drive. Afterall I'm planning to buy an adaptor that will make it an external USB hdd. It will serve as my second backup drive, even though slow, its use as a backup will be great sinc Hard disk sentinel tellsthat the drive still has 1000 days lifetime. My fault though, I keep it running 24/7 for months without turning the laptop off. Odd really, the laptop sustained my immmense usage of it, but the drive did not. It just got slowed though. Felt lucky enough it did not tottally got broke unlike my external hard drive which was thrown by my cousin out of my window on the second floor of the house. I hope the platter is not damaged, so I can still transfer it to a working drive and recover all my 500+ movies there, haix
Nice video but honestly I stay away from Seagate hard drives they constantly fail unless you firmware update them I have a western digital 350 gig ide and 4 2tb drives as well and none needed firmware fixes and there still going strong even the 350 gig at 10 yrs old this year
+john m I agree, I have had a number of harddrives over the years from a bunch of manufacturers and the Seagate harddrives always fail on me. I don't buy those Seagate drives anymore.
Hello John you hit the jackpot! Most of my seagate harddrive dies easily compared to western digital. I have 2 and still running for almost more than 10years now.
I feel like I don’t belong to the world because I kept destroying my SSD Drive so soon for physical trauma. I kept banging too much when rage is coming to me for playing video games. I can’t control from what is wrong with me and I don’t feel I could take care a computer because of my disability.
my hard drive is probably dying i can hear it whrring and not in a smooth way like a fluent whirr more of a rikkity whirr and 2 times i got a blue screen of death and the error was "FAULTY_HARDDRIVE_CORRUPTED_PAGE" and the 2nd one was "FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE". and my computer is a Toshiba Satellite C55-A5387 here are my specs Intel Core i5-3230M @ 2.60GHz turbo boost to 3.60GHz 2 Cores 6GB DDR3 Ram (5.88 usable) Memory 465 GB HDD Built in Intel graphics card (its a laptop) Windows 10 Pro With MS Office 2013 DVD Slot: DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R Double Layer Bluetooth 4.0 2 USB 2.0 1 USB 3.0 HDMI and VGA output 15.6 inch HD TrueBrite Display
I just had my primary drive fail today... it felt like part of me died. lol. Then after getting over that, you have to dish out ~$70-100+ for a new 1TB+ drive, then have to reinstall windows, and all your drivers for everything...then have to deal with losing all your programs, data, games. Ughh. Here is a tip...."bigger" is NOT "better" with hard drives, since hard drives will typically last about the same amount of time big or small. I leave my PC on 24/7, and this 1TB drive last me around 4-5years.
Why do you leave your PC on all the time? Surely you don't need it running all the time? By the time your current disk fails, SSD's should be pretty cheap and have a lot longer life span
A good hard drive will usually last much longer than 4-5 years. In the 15-20 hard drives I've used, none have lasted UNDER 5 years. Actually most of them still work; even ancient 20mb and 100mb (MB, not GB) drives from the 1990s still work! Also, if you have important data, you should always be backing it up regardless.
Daniel Delos always bacl stuff up my maxtor with windows 2000 failed yesterday the heads got stuck to the platters and when it did spin up it had bad bearings and windows blue screened
I have a 2.5 TB hard drive that last nearly 800 days power on time and it still works just got noisier so decided I would upgrade. Also why would you reinstall winders and drivers? Do you not keep backups? to replace my drive it was a matter of running macrium reflect, telling it which backup to run and leaving it for an hour. Bam it was done, I was back to my stuff with all my files. Keep backups people.
Just replaced my WD Caviar 250GB hard drive. Made on April 27th, 2007 and died on May 10th 2015. It lasted 8 years & 13 days. It did make an unusual electrical buzzing sound on May 8th 2015 and restarted the computer. Looks like I had one chance to clone it, but I'm cheap :P
also it was a western digital(it has black font so i know if that represents anything) and im getting a new 1TB for buy new build also from WD so exited
I have a Gateway PC that I got in 2010 and it was working very well for a good few years. But in 2013, I started getting the BSOD. I would normally get it every once in a while but one day, I got the BSOD, and went to restart the computer to get back to my desktop. As soon as it said "Starting Windows", it would go back to the BSOD. I was like "WTF". Restarted the PC, went back to BSOD again. Several restarts later... STILL getting BSOD. I told my dad and he took it to the Geek squad at Best buy. He came home and several weeks later he got a call come come pick up the PC. I was very exited that they had hopefully fix it, but my dad came home and told me the pc... hdd... died. I was sooooo sad. It had like 4 gbts of Ram and 640 gbts of storage on the hdd. It wasn't only the hard drive that failed. I heard it was also a disc controller failure. Luckily, today I got a new Asus PC and it works great. I will always remember you, Gateway PC... (No need to remember the computer, I still have it lol).
Your last line (Luckily, today I got a new Asus PC and it works great. I will always remember you, Gateway PC... (No need to remember the computer, I still have it lol).) sounds so much like me lol! I hate parting with devices I've had for a while even if they no longer function! Wow thanks for making my morning! Have a good one!
my ssd died after 2 years. I lost only one hdd since my first computer from 2000, i still have my first hdd, 16 years old and still works. Ssd's are so bullshit
SSD's are anything but BS! Near instant boot into windows and game loads, stupidly fast transfer speeds, not BS, very very good sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Sure they are more volatile than a mechanical HDD, that's why you use them for running your os and software on, while storing your data on cheaper,denser and more long-term mechanical drives. As linus pointed out, ANY drive can fail, mechanical drives are far from exempt! Ive had multiple failures myself over the years. WD,Seagate,Samsung and even enteprise level 10,000rpm SCSI drives, no brand/type is immune! I'm not talking about abused hardware either(that doesn't count) im talking about drives i have personally owned (in my 30+ years of owning computers, FYI my first HDD was a whopping 10MB! YES MB NOT GB!) that have been securely mounted, kept cool and NEVER shocked. In my parts collection i would have at least a dozen dead or near dead mechanical drives. So, you are just lucky VS the technology being superior and BS! Given that anything can fail, ill take the one with insane transfer speeds and near instant loading TYVM!
I have a Samsung 840 PRO SSD, highly recommended when I looked for good reliable SSDs, I didn't buy the first one I saw. It's almost 5 years old and it's still here lightning fast. Your comment is bullshit, you had bad luck man.
I have several HDDs, oldest is 8 years now. I had just one SSD - a samsung evo 850 - which died mysteriously after a few months. Only wrote a total of ~500gb to it, now it appears in bios but cant be read or written to by anything. All recovery efforts fail with an i/o error. SMART test is impossible because the device is not found. It had worked without issue in the days prior. Won’t be buying another one!
