What Does Formatting Actually Do, Anyway?

And what is the different with Quick Format?

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0:00 - Intro & Basics
0:38 - Formatting in Windows
2:03 - Quick Format
3:00 - Non-Quick Format
4:07 - Demonstration
4:52 - HDD Architecture
8:33 - Low Level Formatting
11:03 - SSD Architecture
14:09 - File Storage on SSD
15:23 - Conclusion

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#Computers #Windows #Tech #ThioJoe

[ThioJoe]

I didn’t get a new camera, actually just got some new lights, improved the lighting arrangement, and messed around with some camera settings. And of course cranked up the sharpen effect in premiere pro ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[richardeadon]

"Have you ever wondered what _actually_ is going on" YES! ABOUT EVERYTHING! KEEP MAKING THESE VIDEOS!

[DavesGarage]

Hi Joe! You might remember me as the author of Task Manager, but I'm also the author of the Format dialog! I have a video about it's history on my channel (Dave's Garage). Would have been a good topic to do a collab on! Cheers and the new Apature lights (I can only assume), looks good!

[PhilLesh]

Sector size is a function of read/write head size.

Block size can affect read/write speeds. In other words, it's faster to read ten 10 byte blocks than it is to read one hundred 1 byte blocks.

[chhailbihariposwal]

Please never stop making these informative videos.

[reycko]

Got the notification while formating a 30Gigs drive.

[Raverspike]

Drink every time he says „I’m not gonna get into that“

[earlt]

A trim command (known as TRIM in the ATA command set, and UNMAP in the SCSI command set) allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally. Trim was introduced soon after SSDs were introduced.

[jayrabbitgamingproductions]

Perfect timing! I’m actually in the middle of formatting a 2tb drive to clean it of things I regret seeing

[rmclean]

Not sure about everyone else but I really appreciate the extra details you provide in your videos. Thanks for not "dumbing it down" too much!

[maxtornogood]

Before Vista a "full" format was just a deep scan over the drive for bad sectors & not actually writing zeros. Starting with Vista a full format does do the zero write.

[srsykes]

I had almost forgotten about low-level formatting. Seems that it took forever to low-level format my 30MB hard disk. I had the option to upgrade my Compaq 286 to the 30MB and all my friends thought I was nuts for paying extra for such a huge drive. "You will never be able to use 30MB on a home computer even 30 or 40 years from now."

[chris]

This is a pretty good piece, I was already familiar with a lot of the stuff in isolation but you did a nice job putting it all together into an easily understandable package.

[bbbl]

Yes, I've been using IBM PC's since the 80's, at that time the original hard drive controllers actually sat in a plug-in card attached to the original ISA bus (great-grandfather of all of the current generation of PCI buses). The control logic sat outside the hard drives themselves on this plug-in card. Now back then there used to be two different types of hard drive formats available, MFM & RLL, and so you had to get the appropriate type of controller card for the type of HDD you were getting. The low-level formatter was a piece of code within the controller card that you could execute by using a special program in DOS that initiated that portion of the controller's logic. That all went away once the IDE HDD's came, the controller logic all lay inside the HDD's themselves, and the smart "controller cards" actually just became simpler dumb interface cards. Low-level formatting also became inaccessible by that point, as the LLF was done at the factory, and never needed refreshing.

[DunnsDayDash]

*finally finds a video where someone goes into detail about something no one ever goes into detail about so I can finally learn 100%*

YouTuber: I’m not going to get into that, I’m going to keep it simple for this video

GOD DAMMIT 😫

[likebot.]

LL formatting was back in the day when a 10 megabyte drive was _something..._ back when most personal computers ran on floppys or tape and the user was the device driver for everything.

[Glden]

I'm surprised you explained all that shit and didn't bother with what NTFS and FAT32 are XD

[asariqueen]

The way you've completey turned the channel around is beautiful.

[alexandermeneses]

I would love to know more about SSDs! You left us a bit short on them :D

[TitanTubs]

Bro you need to like assemble the stuff into like a playlist teach everything about computers because you explain everything so well.
You're literally a villain turned hero.
Thank you so much for what you do