The Evolution of Hard Drive Technology!

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Hard drives, they’re pretty handy to save your games and archive your data. And ever since they’ve been commercialized for consumer use, they’ve just kept growing in capacity. At the same time, its not like our needs have stayed the same. I mean back in 2006, you could get a 250GB hard drive like this one, and honestly that was pretty big for the time. Fast forward to now and there are games that barely fit in that drive like modern warfare that went all the way up to 235GB at some point and future games might even exceed that.

Nowadays though, you can get something like this monster 16 terabyte drive… in the same form factor. So how do they do it?

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[punkshoo]

Nice to see this type of content on this channel. Nicely done!

[bluesteelbass]

Adding the "blooper" with the cut and beep was excellent! Subtle background music to add the ambiance, and not as a second vocal track in volume levels, is very much appreciated and noticed.

[skyrien]

This is an awesome channel; exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for

[Michael.Chapman]

7:28 Wonderful to watch :-) My first drive was a mere 43 MB. It was a massive 5.25 inch, with 3-platters and 6-heads--but one head (and one entire platter side) was given over to servo data used for positioning the actuator. The hard drive is in no way anything mundane or humble--it's the most sophisticated device any of us can ever expect own.

[metrotechguru]

Excellent video. While I knew some of this information, your explanations were easy to understand. Again, I say excellent.

[dawienel]

bro you need more likes.
Great video, please do more.

[bgtubber]

This video was so well made I watched all the ads. Really, stellar job! I've made a note to avoid SMR hard drives if possible.

[bradeinarsen]

My first hard drive was 30 MB back in the 80's in a Laser XT 8088 ... I love how these devices are essentially vinyl LPs on metal.

[RetroTinkerer]

Nice work, very interesting and simplified enough that even I could understand the SMR part, Thanks!

[arky]

Really appreciate the new content and video type Snows! Keep going! Maybe cpu's and gpu's in the future?

[starbatuss]

Great content indeed! Very good structure and informatic (still enjoyable)

[charlesseymour]

I have been waiting for six years for someone to do this video. I worked for WD for 13 years on correcting components on failed drives.

[almostinfamous]

This clarified a lot of things about hard drives I had always been curious about, looking forward to part 2!

[bertnijhof]

I love hard drives especially since I use OpenZFS 2.0 and I keep using all my HDDs everywhere:
- 2003 Back-up server, a Pentium 4 HT (2 x IDE 3.5" 250 + 320GB and 2 x SATA 2.5" 320 + 320GB) used for ~1 hour/week.
- 2011 Laptop i5-2520M (2TB, new), currently used for 95% as backup server 2.
- 2019 Desktop Ryzen 3 2200G (500GB + 1TB; ~8 power-on years; stand-by after 5 minutes). The HDDs are partitioned as 2 x 500GB in Raid-0 cached by 95GB SSD partition and a 500GB partition at the end of 1TB cached by 33GB SSD partition. The HDDs are used for less than 6 hours/week. For the daily stuff I have a 512GB nvme-SSD (3200/2300MB/s).

This week I like to try a Proxmox server on ZFS. I want to reuse a 2008 Phenom II X4 B97. I like to try 2 ancient IBM SCSI HDDs (10, 000 rpm; 18 + 36GB) + 80GB SATA HDD. Also configured with 2 x 18GB in Raid-0 and 18 + 80GB in LVM if possible.

Now I only have a 160GB sata HDD (2.5"; 35MB/s) free, that Dell sold to me in 2008 in a Windows Vista laptop :( :( I keep it as USB2 or USB3 drive.
All other drives I have kept, are below 13GB and all are IDE.

[id]

Hey, I learnt new things today! Thanks!

[glee]

you re great, loved your vibe, SUBSCRIBED.

[Sounomi]

My first hard drive was a whopping 1.6 GB and at the time, 2.0 GB was about the largest you could get. Crazy how things have changed.

[alcorza]

Great video! Learnt a lot... Thought I knew a fair bit about hard disks, bit there was more! Good one!

[ProjectPhysX]

Excellent explanation on the technology!
Back in 2015 I said goodbye to HDDs for good. Since then only SSDs, today 500GB NVMe for Windows & everything and 1TB SATA for archive and games. I regret nothing. The loading time that I saved by going all SSD is invaluable.
PS: Snows read your Twitter DMs ;)

[knofi]

A very good video! However, it's already old technology. The only remaining advantage of harddrives is their price. There are already SSD drives available with 100TB capacity. Technology is always fascinating, though! Thanks for the video!