Take a look inside a hard drive while it's running

I show what's inside of a regular and SSD hard drive, and what the major components do

[spatch]

people, don't open your drives if you want them to run afterwards

[Mindawga]

You can't be in two places at once. Hard drive needle: 'Watch me'

[change]

Sometimes I wonder how someone invents this.. and how advanced we really are.

[FreakMC]

The head moves so fast that it almost looks fake

[BlueLineofthesky]

This is an insane movement. It is a wonder they last so long.

[priestofsyrinx]

My jaw always drops when I see how these things work. It amazes me that you have a platter spinning at 7200 RPM (up to 15000 back in the day) and the mechanical arm that is reading and writing data with precision. I have a 10-year-old western digital hard drive with over 30000 power-on hours and it still works just fine. Absolutely amazing considering how these things work.

[frozantini]

"SSD has no moving parts"
electrons: am i a joke to you?

[xrivw]

Fun fact: an HDD’s actuator arm can move over 20 times in .02 seconds.

[redbluestar]

So that explains why the sound in my laptop is hissing.

[liberusmagnus]

3:04 the guy who put the chips on the PCB: i have achieved comedy

[Sumit-igot]

Hard Drive be like: I'm more hard working than your SSDs.

[ChrisCanadianHusky]

I want to get an HDD just to sharpen my knife on the platter

[marcosmedia]

7:22 My brain when my teacher calls me out when I don't expect it

[myt]

Incredible how precisely made these where, and to think these are considered old tech now is crazy

[clementpoon]

That accuracy and timing of the hdd head is insane.

[andeluuledna]

Now every time I open a folder i would feel bad for my hard drive for doing so much work 😞

[bluesailormercury]

"The plates show scratches at level 5 with deeper grooves at level 6".

[RyanEmeryLovesCars]

To think mine lasted 8 years (and still works to this day) without any issue is amazing. So glad I have an SSD now

[ghost-]

It’s all fun and games until a disk flies out and cuts your neck

[superheaton]

Older technology is always quite interesting to see what engineers were able to accomplish. Look at the color correction crt TVs they had back in the days. Wow.