i miss the win95/98 defragmentation programm, it was so relaxing to watch the blocks moving

@theparrot271

4 жыл бұрын

It felt like cleaning my room... lmao

@vrajesh251997

4 жыл бұрын

Defraggler app does same.

@ankitkumarlal9068

4 жыл бұрын

So true!!! the Video equivalent o ASMR.

@patcallahan1050

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, watching DOS on a small and nearly full disk was even more of a sight.

@andrew_koala2974

4 жыл бұрын

@@vrajesh251997 UltimateDefrag is even nicer, and on an older version 1.72 has been given away Free for a long time now See_www.disktrix.com

I've been doing IT for years and I love watching these videos, sometimes just to recap what I know, or occasionally I'll find out things I didn't know.

@akms828

7 жыл бұрын

Frostblood me too

@sapphyrus

3 жыл бұрын

I also watch to re-confirm what I already know and make sure there's nothing I didn't know about the matter.

@ALPHABYTE64

3 жыл бұрын

What about defragmentation on Android?

@elvarfn2086

3 жыл бұрын

@@ALPHABYTE64 is that a thing

2:41 Almost said the wrong word, eh?

@Mboy556

5 жыл бұрын

when you forgot English xD

@user-em9mw9ch3y

5 жыл бұрын

when the script buffers

@SkyenNovaA

5 жыл бұрын

His script list was fragmented

@JiraiyaPlaysRetroGames

5 жыл бұрын

Error 404

@Rookie_06

4 жыл бұрын

More cr..... Haaarm than good...

Almost 8 years later since this video was released and Half Life 3 still hasn't been released

In my experience defragging HDDs very often will cause them to fail sooner. They have to defrag for hours most of the times, with constant writes and reads that will cause too much heat and physical wear on mechanical components because of that intense work that lasts for hours non-stop. I'm not saying defragmentation is a bad thing, it actually improves the disk performance but at the cost of putting the hard drive to a lot of stress without a single pause.

@victoriannecastle

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just upgrade to ssd

@AGAMER94

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriannecastle CHAD

@avfxz

Жыл бұрын

@@victoriannecastle 2tb hdd much cheaper

@imjonathan6745

Жыл бұрын

I guess its worth it

@estebanod

Жыл бұрын

@@victoriannecastle SSD aren't meant for long time unused storage

Just saying I have Windows 7 and it lets me De-fragment my SSD.

@bananya6020

6 жыл бұрын

dont do it dont do it Dont do it DONT DO IT NI(N)OOOOOO

@TheHammerGuy94

6 жыл бұрын

Actually it uses an alternate method called TRIM.

@kpo8718

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah cause only windows 10 can detect a ssd and doing that will probably damage the chips

@TELEK1NET1C

5 жыл бұрын

@@bananya6020 ...sneaky n

@battyflaps5410

5 жыл бұрын

yeah just don't..

Next Episode: Advantages of UEFI over old BIOS I know this can be found by simple google-ing, but I think it would be nice to have a FAP-episode for better understanding.

@SeekNeo

9 жыл бұрын

anything can be found by simply google-ing it

@richiericher9084

9 жыл бұрын

SeekNeo​ last time I came up with this there were a bunch of guys saying "omg you're so dump, just google it"

@AZTechLabs

9 жыл бұрын

SeekNeo not true, but that's a common misconception Google would like you to believe.

@FahmiZFX

9 жыл бұрын

Everytime when I think of the acronym for this short, I get giggles.

@EastingAndNorthing

9 жыл бұрын

Dude, second thing that came up on Google for me (from microsoft) "What is UEFI? (Applies to Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1) UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140 technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft. It's designed to improve software interoperability and address limitations of BIOS. Some advantages of UEFI firmware include: - Better security by helping to protect the pre-startup-or pre-boot-process against bootkit attacks. - Faster startup times and resuming from hibernation. - Support for drives larger than 2.2 terabytes (TB). - Support for modern, 64-bit firmware device drivers that the system can use to address more than 17.2 billion gigabytes (GB) of memory during startup. - Capabililty to use BIOS with UEFI hardware."

Thanks Linus, I'm off to defragment my HDD now!

@11alekon

3 жыл бұрын

have you finished yet?

@IsaacStevensHOA

3 жыл бұрын

You mean ssd

@andreiiaz2097

3 жыл бұрын

@@IsaacStevensHOA No, he meant HDD. Like HarD Drive. Not everyone is fooled by stupid SSD ads.

@Frilabird

3 жыл бұрын

@@andreiiaz2097 I mean ssd is faster just more expensive

@freevbucks8019

3 жыл бұрын

Windows automatically does this

Dude, I love your channel. Im fairly new to IT and your channel explains everyday tech related things so clearly in such a short time. Please never stop making these.

@ellonysman

2 жыл бұрын

Very good teacher, I agree except I know why its important and not to do an ssd but how do I scan/defrag my win10???? I didnt hear how...?

@goose_858

2 жыл бұрын

@@ellonysman right click on your C: drive in file explorer -> click properties -> navigate to where you can check your drives health (I forget what it's called) and there you can defrag the disk. You can also find this setting in Control Panel but it's been a bit since I've used Windows so I don't remember where it's at in there

@ellonysman

2 жыл бұрын

@@goose_858 I heard newer pc's someone said don't defrag ...?

@goose_858

2 жыл бұрын

@@ellonysman don't defrag SSD's which most newer PC's have. But if you have a HDD then your system will automatically defrag it every few weeks

Thanks Linus I was so confused about Disk Fragmentation and Partitioning in my ICT text book lol and your videos cleared it up! Thanks a ton man

2:39 "Trying to defragment an SSD can do more...g (Brain: NOT GOOD IDIOT! YOU MEAN HARM!!!).. harm than good" :-) LOL!

@CharlesTheClumsy

8 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me laugh. Thank you!

@RoniRonkoKovatch

8 жыл бұрын

:-) im happy to hear that :-)

@NoNameAtAll2

7 жыл бұрын

but.. what did he try to tell there?

@RoniRonkoKovatch

7 жыл бұрын

That defragmentation is not recommended to SSD drives...

@ziggybowman6875

7 жыл бұрын

more *good*

Turn on automatic Captions, skip to 1:12 and laugh your ass off

@brysonshires9573

9 жыл бұрын

lol

@F3arRa1n

9 жыл бұрын

omg lol haha

@Grrizz84

9 жыл бұрын

ROFLMAO, more thumbs up! This has to make it to the top of the comments section!

@rosen9425

9 жыл бұрын

LOLD

@wintier3263

9 жыл бұрын

lol

This was a lot of complex information laid out very quickly which for me made it a little difficult to wrap my head around. So I watched it again to let the information sink in. Being that I am not the most tech savvy person I never knew to defrag my hard drive to make my system run better. Thank you for explaining how the hard drive works and how defragmentation will help.

Finally, the best explanation out there. Thank you linus

I love this as fast as possible episode! :D I liked the loading bar style of the sponsor, but overall this episode has much lesser graphical and text popups than the usual. Which is kinda like the signature of techquickie :O 10/10

The chroma keying in the last few episodes has been nearly perfect gj LMG.

watch this on 2022 and Half Life 3 still not coming out

Explained great.Thank you

... That thank-you-note at the end was so original that I've decided to subscribe. Thanks Linus!

I really like this Channel. Really goes in depth but Not overly complicated. It makes it easy to understand with the metaphors especially.

This is the very well explained using a layman's term. Thank you. 👍

*Realizing from the ending that Linus may not be appreciated enough* Thank you Linus for the awesome leadership in your company and always coming out with great content!! Lol

I love this guy he explains everything so well

This is the most concise explanation-video I've seen in resent years. Thank you "ancient" video!! Very informative and educational.

Used this for my GCSE revision

tech quickie on NTFS, ext4, MacOS extended (Journaled)

@RajHaa1

9 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

Better: Techquickie on XFS NTFS FAT16 FAT32 HFS+ aka MacOS extended (Journaled) ext4 reiser4 btrfs

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Meyerhoff Fix'd

@jimmybrite

9 жыл бұрын

Faissal Bensefia You forgot a few like reiser4 and btrfs

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

***** Fix'd

Very clear explanation. Defragmenting hard drive now.

Thanks for simplifying one more explanation for my friends 😃

I think that you covered most of windows but you should make a small comment or annotation saying that both OSX (HFS+) and Linux (Usually ext3 or ext 4) do not suffer from fragmentation due to their better file systems. In fact have you done a tech quickie on file systems? That's a good idea

@ThomasVanhelden

9 жыл бұрын

He is a huge windows fanboy, so complimenting HFS+ is not something I see him doing.

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

Don't forget XFS!

@dimitriid

9 жыл бұрын

He has covered OSX stuff in the past and even Linux with a guide on Synology so it's not completely out of the question that he should mention em imho.

@EmilePolka

9 жыл бұрын

actually, ext2 is worst filesystem for linux, it corrupts files so easily if youi dont unmount them safely, worst is ext3 and ext4, they do journalling that stress SSD for good, these filesystems are not optimized for SSD, HFS+ well cant comment on that.

@classicrockonly

9 жыл бұрын

remle ikawura I think I'd much rather let journaling do its thing on an ssd. The lesser write amounts isn't worth it with ext3/4. I don't know how much journaling writes exactly, but with the stress tests showing that SSDs are much more durable than they used to be, who cares? Maybe a few MB a day? Big whoop. They say 50GB a day will probably kill an SSD in 20 years, I plan on upgrading again in that time. I knew someone who disabled journaling on their system, it crashed during an update (Arch Linux) and he was screwed, ended up having to reinstall the OS. There are plenty of other modern filesystems for Linux but I haven't researched them enough for SSDs :) I don't have any old Linux SSDs for experience either, just got my first one for Linux 2 months back. The Samsung 840 Pro that runs windows is doing great though! Going since April 2013. We'll see if my Seagate is durable at all

2:42 Awwh old Linus trying so hard 4:42 And throwing a fit as well, awwh

Thanks for supporting the channel Linus.

Thanks for sharing this, it was a really easy way to understand what defrag actually does!

I think this sort of defragmentation program should exist: A defrag program that allows you to make groups of files and put those files in the same place (physically) on the drive when you defrag and (just as a little cherry on top) a function that can monitor what files open when you launch an application and group them for you (you will have to tell it to start and stop monitoring manually). It should also allow you to prioritise file and the higher priority a file is, the more likely it is to go on a spot on the drive that can be accessed faster (on the outermost parts of the drive). If a defragmentation program exists that does these things (or at least the first thing) please let me know.

Windows 7 does actually let you defrag an SSD, it won't do it automatically but it will let you do it manually. Windows 8 and higher doesn't do it automatically and won't even let you do it manually. And You really don't need to defrag that often, about once a month. Modern drives and filesystems aren't affected by fragmentation as much as they used to be and defragging a HDD too often can wear out the drive.

this helped me for my previous exam and now again helping me for this exams. thank you

Really nice video guys ! LOVE YOUR WORK !!! KEEP IT UP ;)

I just about died at that, it can actually do more g------harm then good XD XD XD as always, love the video Linus!

@jamswu6398

8 жыл бұрын

H8 the video unlike unsub report

@GoogleUser-ch1fh

8 жыл бұрын

XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD

@sethadkins546

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamswu6398 Wow such edge

Beardless Linus jumpscare (I’m here cause of the windows 95 video lmao)

@elmerken9640

3 ай бұрын

same

Very well explained Linus, i go to school for IT and you are helping me out alot :D

Great videos! One of the only KZread channels that explain shit like this extremely clearly and well! Liked+Subscribed!

i love how linus stuttered on "Defragging an SSD can do more g- harm!"

Great video Linus! but what tool should I use to defragment my hard drive, is Windows disk defragmenter okay? or should I use some other 3d party app?

@andreatilli6227

8 жыл бұрын

I've heard Drefraggler is pretty good

@andreatilli6227

8 жыл бұрын

***** Why you say that ? (just asking)

@andreatilli6227

8 жыл бұрын

***** Ok, I'll try Auslogics Disk Defrag then.

@mtdagar

8 жыл бұрын

I used it, and found it to pretty good. It offers a tons of stats about your hard drive(temperature, read/write speed etc). For the defragmentation part, it does take a lot of time but the results are very good. I would recommend people to use it...

your performance is stunned....👍👍 and thanks for the information.

FINALLY.... my teacher has started showing father linus in our Comp sci lessons...... my dreams have come true...

I spot a wild Linus wearing an LG G Watch R

Can you defrag a floppy?

@leonardobishop

7 жыл бұрын

no unless u want ur pc to explode

@TheDyingFox

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think some newer operating systems allows that any more, but, it could probably be done manually. Copy all files out from it to a safe location, then format the floppy disk (I think it's a FAT12 filesystem), then paste the files back xD

@SuperSpetterpoep

7 жыл бұрын

Actually floppy's could be defragmented yes, back in the DOS days. The more free space you had on the floppy the faster defragmentation was.

@calimods4256

7 жыл бұрын

Bro no 😂 I forgot about those fuckers

@SuperSpetterpoep

7 жыл бұрын

Defragmenting a floppy could take a while, cause a floppy disk was only able to read an X amount of blocks at the same time. It was better to simply quick format it and then copy your data on it, it would put that in just one track. Defragmenting was only needed if you technically, put files on, delete them, put new files back on and repeat the proces for a while. THAT is fragmentation.

Your the best! Any time I have computer issues, you are always the one that that solves my prob.

Love your videos, nice reprieve from text book reading.

1:10 "How much you love Gay Ben."

@GalaxinTM

4 жыл бұрын

it's GabeN

@loop5720

3 жыл бұрын

We all love Gay Ben gayly for his Gay Ben smile. ;)

I just defragmented my hdd for the first time in 2 yeara it was like 50% fragmented and took 2 hours

@christopherlawley1842

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds about right.

Since I'm the PC emergency for my family I always explained defragmentation as sorting out a messy drawer, putting everything nicely in order so it's easier to find.

Love your videos mate. Keep them coming... You remind me of my cousin. He only wears the same cut off t-shirt and has bought loads of them...

If you're running versions of Linux other than Debian 8 or Ubuntu 14.04 you need cron a trim. The os doesn't do it itself

@darkySp

8 жыл бұрын

+srinivas kumar Windows 10 actually defrags your HDDs once every week, or so i've heard

I am on ext4 on Linux on a SSD. Yea. I will never defragment.

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky

I love your videos, you've covered so much information you've given me the confidence to change my graphics card, add an m.2 drive, install Windows 10 and add a new ssd. Before i wouldn't even take the case apart incase i broke something. Now i know how to look after my sshd as well 👌

@stephensnell5707

2 ай бұрын

SSHD-SHORT FOR SOLID STATE HYBRID DRIVE

Thanks. Finally now i understand! Defragmenting now.

Linus: "Imagine a 3 way..." Me: "Oh goodness, where's he going with this one? lol" Linus: "You know what, I'm just going to quit while I'm ahead..." Laughs were had. :p

SSD user, stopped caring about this a long time ago :)

@CEDRICGAMINGYT31

3 жыл бұрын

But the one who uses ssd with a hdd would have this problem

@CEDRICGAMINGYT31

3 жыл бұрын

But the one who uses ssd with a hdd would have this problem

@soundslave

3 жыл бұрын

@@CEDRICGAMINGYT31 Why do those people use a time machine to come to 2020 from 1990?

«Digital 15 puzzle» Great video, Linus, always very funny and informational! xD

Thank you Linus, you cover my questions

Does defragmentation deteriorate the hard drive?...as in, you only want to do it occasionally and maybe not on a daily basis

@TechDeath28

8 жыл бұрын

No, you have it mixed up. A HDD should be defragmented every month or so, or after you write or remove large files (such as video games). A SSD should not be defragmented at all. If you're running a computer with Windows 7 or newer, this is no problem of concern since it "defragments" for an HDD and "optimizes" for a SSD automatically.

@drone124

8 жыл бұрын

ok i understand but im wondering if defragmenting the disk too oftn can damage it, the same way a battery only has so many charge cycles. is doing it regularly a bad idea?

@nsfbob

8 жыл бұрын

If you wanna get really technical, yes, it will be stressing the drive with the excessive amount of write cycles compared to the amount from daily use. However, hard drives have a much longer life span than SSDs in the sense that they have a far higher amount of theoretical write cycles before components will begin to fail. So in other words, don't worry about damaging a hard drive with defragmentation, it won't hurt anything. Would I recommend doing it daily though? Not really. All you'd be doing then is putting excessive stress on the drive without even the smallest increase in performance. If you really wanna defrag stuff a lot, do it biweekly. Don't worry though, odds are you'll be replacing your hard drive before even comes close to its maximum amount of write cycles.

@drone124

8 жыл бұрын

+Noah Frye thanks for the info friend

@yiuyeungkan157

8 жыл бұрын

How does the OS know if it is a HDD or SDD, and what if I JBOD'd an SDD with a HDD?

Multi-boot as fast as possible.

@matthew3p

7 жыл бұрын

Multiboot explained as FAP

very informative and not boring at all.

learn a lot from ur videos....thanx for making them

what about defragmenting SSHDs

@QuarioQuario54321

3 жыл бұрын

Those are solid state

"or how much you love gay ben" ;D

@edgold3717

6 жыл бұрын

GabeN Clap

@Hauminiad

6 жыл бұрын

:)

@JohnnyD

6 жыл бұрын

.....?

This was a GREAT simple and informative explaination ty VERY much dude. When I have asked friends about this in the past they either have no clue or gave some convoluted explaination for it. I have an SSD so I wont touch it buts till good to know. U got a new subber

Makes sense....Nicely presented , thankyou......

Is it me, or does he really have kind of...too orange.. palms ?

@1:10 "a filmed speech about how much you love gay men" ! WTF Linus?! lol next video is about how to convert a floppy drive to a hard drive using only speeches about how you love gay men. :-)

Excellent explanation

Thank you. This video was Very Informative

I'm a Windows person and the file system Windows uses is just crap. File systems used by Macs and most Linux distros are so good you don't need to defrag! But it makes me wonder how hard is it for Microsoft to use or make a better file system? A quick Google doesn't tell.

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

It's because OSX and Linux are both based on Unix and Windows is based on NT

@TheEpicMusic161

9 жыл бұрын

Faissal Bensefia if you go back far enough the Windows kernel is also based off the Unix kernel but it's rather heavily modified.

@faissalbensefia7001

9 жыл бұрын

TheEpicMusic161 Actually no, they rewrote the system from the ground up after windows 98

@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjenson

9 жыл бұрын

it kinda depends on the desired effect of storing data. when newer versions of windows (formatted with ntfs) store data on the disk, it tries to move all of the data as closely as possible, with very little buffer between clusters, in an effort to reduce drive head movement. of course, this compact method of storage will require occasional defragmentation to reduce incontiguous file clusters on the drive and save some performance. ext4 (and, i'm assuming, macintosh file systems) write file data clusters with outragiously large buffers between files in an effort to keep file clusters contiguous across the disk, no matter how much the files are changed. this means more of the physical space on the disk is used, and the head has to do a little more work if accessing more than one file. also, it is still possible to have fragmented files on ext4, but it is significantly reduced given the write philosophy. personally, i like ntfs a little more because i do not mind occasional maintenance to hone performance, but hey, to each their own

@18aidanme

9 жыл бұрын

TheEpicMusic161 If you go extremely far back windows is just a GUI for MS DOS.

what about an sshd?

@kai1363

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Robbins how? Anyone?

@varamon7294

5 жыл бұрын

Because its a solid state drive thats hard

@furinick

5 жыл бұрын

What abput the ss

I want to thank linus media group for all these amazing videos because i have learned a lot from here. Please do not stop making them. Much much regards - Bharat. I m more confident with regards to technical know how after watching these videos.

Thanks bro you always increase my knowledge.

Anyone here 5 years later still waiting for half life 3 xD

I thought he said “like maybe a.. filmed speech about how much you love gay men.”😆

Thanks Linus and the hole crew for videos hope you keep give us the information about pc's, CES, fast as possible and many more so continue to make awesome videos in the future.

Thank you ! Better than my college teacher.

Well this is dumb, Windows 7 defragmentation is showing that my SSD is being indentified as a HDD as it's showing me a defragmentation option instead of a optimized option. How do I fix this?

@angusbagby6579

9 жыл бұрын

eat chocolate.. it fixes all

@LianSirenia

9 жыл бұрын

And then download Start is Back

@ivanjacob_

9 жыл бұрын

***** Which is better in every way anyway.

@GhostMotley

9 жыл бұрын

Check to make sure TRIM is enabled, open CMD as an Admin and enter this "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" if it gives you a 0 TRIM is enabled, if it gives you a 1 TRIM is disabled so enter this line "fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0". Windows 7 doesn't have an "optimize" for SSDs, just make sure de-fragmentation is disabled for the SSD. In all honesty even on a HDD you don't need to defrag that often.

@benjamen007

9 жыл бұрын

***** I downgraded from windows 8.1 to windows 7 because I got sick of using it.

Half life 3 confirmed! Linus said it, you all heard it.

Helped me in 2021🙃thanks again Linus

I enjoy your videos man. I'm just gon hit the sub button

windows 10 defrags your drive weekly automatically o-o

@HighFidelityFox

8 жыл бұрын

does it actually? If so can you tell me how to check that?

@nikolaswithak

8 жыл бұрын

open your start menu, type "defrag" open "Defragment and Optimize drives" and for me it says this: prntscr.com/9r23g0

@HighFidelityFox

8 жыл бұрын

+©Cubit-Games oh okay, thanks

@OneEyedKingNL

8 жыл бұрын

+©Cubit-Games i'd hope for people with an ssd, it doesnt defrag the ssd.

@nikolaswithak

8 жыл бұрын

im sure windows 10 tests what type of drive it is

Half life 3 has been confirmed, me: still stuck on HL2 loading screen

@derekOliveira96

4 жыл бұрын

I... Was... Just about to say the exact same thing... To slow i guess hahahahaha

@MuhammadIlhamuodd254512

4 жыл бұрын

It's Alyx today

Linus, thanks for supporting the channel. ♥

I once read a great analogy for this topic: Think of your hard drive like a house, and the files that you store are the things in that house. Naturally you would keep all the food in the fridge, clothes in the closet, bed in your room, etc. However, if you were to start putting things in random places, like, putting some food under the bathroom sink, then some more food on a shoe rack, and maybe a phone charger in the fridge... getting stuff done efficiently would be nearly impossible. Defregging basically reorganizes everything in a logical way so that you end up with a nice, neat, tidy, and efficient house. And really, that's pretty much the gist of what defragging does for a hard drive.

@varamon7294

5 жыл бұрын

Epic

@descend2ascend

2 жыл бұрын

Should I back up all my documents, pics, etc before defrag?

@TyroPirate

2 жыл бұрын

@@descend2ascend wow, this comment I wrote is ancient (and has pretty bad grammar. SMH) ... I can't believe youtube pushed me a notification of a reply. Defagging doesn't delete files; the standard windows defrag utility should be perfectly safe. You should be doing regular backups anyway of your important files anyway though. (I, an internet stranger, don't want to be responsible for any false peace of mind that crumbles due to a totally coincidental hard drive failure). If you're talking about an SSD, those don't need defagging at all.

SSD + Linux = No defrags YAY

@gingerflakes101

8 жыл бұрын

***** Life isn't about games you 13 year old bitch go read a book for once.

@gingerflakes101

8 жыл бұрын

***** It's just a profile picture, I'm not part of Major League Gaming and I never said I was, I just like watching MLG Starcraft and MLG parodies, I have more than just a linux computer, I have three computers: a Windows PC (extremely high end, i7-5960X, GTX Titan X in 2 way SLI), an iMac, and a Linux machine (running Arch Linux).

@MrChicky111

8 жыл бұрын

+Defcon 5 LOL

@TheIntervurt

8 жыл бұрын

+Defcon 5 What is it that you use your high end Windows rig for ?

@gingerflakes101

8 жыл бұрын

TheIntervurt Yes, and video rendering.

You should always run spinrite on your drive. At least once a year, minimum. It fixes a ton of issues with your hard drive (mechanical and SSD), including repairing issues that could, in the future, spread and kill the drive. Spinrite will fix any fixable problem with your hard drive. If your drive is dead/dying, run spinrite and recover your data. Just bought a brand new drive? Run spinrite on it and see if it is healthy. In fact, you can buy 3 hard drives, run spinrite on each, pick the healthiest drive, and return the other 2 and get your money back. This way you know your brand new drive is perfectly happy and healthy. Nothing sucks more than buying a brand new drive only to have it randomly die a month later because it had some hidden faults. Spinrite is the best.

@Melthornal

9 жыл бұрын

***** Spinrite does multiple things to repair the drive, but the mechanism is showing the drive SMART system where it is faulty and the drive fixing itself. SMART is good at fixing problems, but it is terrible at finding problems, Spinrite shows SMART the problems and SMART fixes them. Spinrite works by flipping all the bits on the drive then flipping them back. It does it from multiple angles of attack at varying velocities and in special orders in order to, as efficiently as possible, attack every bit on the drive from every angle and velocity. Sometimes a bit will work properly if you approach it slowly but not when you approach quickly or vice versa. Spinrite attacks in every single way. Once it shows the drive that a bit cannot be read, the drive will respond using its own systems to fix the issue. Generally it will copy the data to another region on the disk, and then permanently remove the damage region from availability. The system has proven to be equally effective on HDD and SSD.

@uboatfreak4390

9 жыл бұрын

Melthornal You have no idea what you are talking about.

@Melthornal

9 жыл бұрын

Dascalu Alexandru Oh really? Weird, considering how everything I said is 100% factual.

@Melthornal

9 жыл бұрын

***** Everything I have said is factual. If you think what I have said is wrong, it is because YOU are mistaken. Not me. It isn't my problem if you aren't educated. I provided you with facts. Spinrite DOES use incoming velocity as a key factor in how it recovers data. This is a fact. As is the fact that spinrite works by telling the drive where there are faulty sectors. It attempts to read the drive bit by bit, and when the drive finds a bit it cannot read, it runs its own maintenance. Want to know the funny part about facts? They are true regardless of whether you believe them or not. Spinrite does this using a number of techniques. Your ignorance to the facts does not mean I am wrong in stating facts.

@Melthornal

9 жыл бұрын

***** I also don't want to gloss over how absurd and juvenile you are to come to me, after I stated demonstrable facts, and claim I am wrong, and upvote someone else who claims I am wrong. I stated proven facts that you could google and verify yourself within five minutes. And you respond to this claiming I am wrong and trying to team up on my like school yard bullies. Educate yourself before you spew your uneducated opinion as if it were fact.

Good explanation. Thank you!

Watching your Net neutrality video just when I saw this was uploaded. Thanks!

Great video well explained. Thank you

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