That Smart HDD program at 2:02 is malware. Don't look for it.

@ancerilnz9137

7 жыл бұрын

up vote .... ?

@iz723

7 жыл бұрын

Hard Disk Sentinel is a really good one

@jspinks2388

7 жыл бұрын

No man SMART or a slew of some software doesn't always find anything...until then you suspect something it's getting in Prompt and then see all the corrupted stuff.

@DavidHenderson1

7 жыл бұрын

Techquickie should add an annotation correcting this mistake. I almost looked it up before I saw this comment.

@hat1324

7 жыл бұрын

Just use Speccy. I don't really need the gritty details from CPU-Z GPU-Z and HDD Sentinel etc. etc.

Ummm the tool at 2:05 is malware and is not a legitimate tool. It is rogue software and even Kaspersky has an article on it!

@PcGames88

7 жыл бұрын

is just a stock image

@Hecklezz

7 жыл бұрын

No it isn't, the software name and interface is exactly what the rogue is. This is not a 'stock' image.

@MADagain

7 жыл бұрын

...A stock image of Malware, either way it's unprofessional to show that and not mention that there are unsafe applications.

@gentuxable

7 жыл бұрын

It even looks like malware, through and through!

MP3 compression as fast as possible please

@lilsafmusic

7 жыл бұрын

sharks445 vs vinyl good

@arabonarocketcamel8352

7 жыл бұрын

Not really something that can be fast as possible. But pretty much it cuts out the sounds that are hard for the human ear to hear. Like low end and high end sounds.

@TacComControl

7 жыл бұрын

ArabOnARocketCamel No. no no no wrong wrong wrong. MP3 compression uses auditory masking, a technology discovered in the 1800s that demonstrated that playing certain low tones would make certain high tones inaudible to the human ear. MP3 compression just gets rid of the tones you'd never be able to hear. If it were as simple as cutting the high and low off, then the first MP3 files wouldn't have been enormous and lossy as hell, back in the early 80s.

@sharks445

7 жыл бұрын

TacComControl auditory masking is just a small part of the entire encoding process. It's extremely detailed but the psychoacoustic model involves calculating multiple things like masking threshold, absolute threshold, using a masking curve, etc. That's done using an FFT. I don't know the sequence (it may be simultaneously) but a process called MDCT occurs, which is a major part of the encoding process. there's also quantization, Huffman coding, bitstream formatting, etc. There's no simple way of explaining MP3, so that's why I want to see what a Fast as possible would be like

@TheLinkoln18

7 жыл бұрын

sharks445 Ok basically the media is treated as an image, filtered, framed packaged.

Once I ran a smart test as a drive was failing and it said it was all good. The drive failed 3 minutes later.

@Mr.P.Griffith

7 жыл бұрын

ArabOnARocketCamel you must have ran a s-m-r-t test...

@grrr1351

7 жыл бұрын

Not so smart then

@offbeat4772

7 жыл бұрын

ArabOnARocketCamel he said it worked 77% of the time, so that's not really surprising

@arabonarocketcamel8352

7 жыл бұрын

I really should have detected something, I could hear the read and grinding against the disc, it literally sounded like someone was sanding steel.

@hellknightf1

4 жыл бұрын

it was good when it checked... duh

SMART, the thing that never actually tell you when a HDD is dying. I've had 9 drives die on me over the years, SMART never told me about them.

@KabooM1067

4 жыл бұрын

Not only that, running SMART on a failed drive still gives you a pass most of the time. It's been completely useless for me. Only one drive gave me a SMART warning message, and the irony is it's the only one that's still working lol. I don't know what could be funnier.

@johnnytaylor1243

Жыл бұрын

@@KabooM1067 I have a caution in my HDD Now! And it made me concern because I don't wanna lose my saved games !!

CrystalDiskInfo!!!!!!!

@jiagengliu

3 жыл бұрын

Is it good?

@dodisblues

3 жыл бұрын

@@jiagengliu the best

@krisnadwiandrianto04

3 жыл бұрын

nice

Penny, your check engine light is on. "Maybe the check engine light is broken" Is there a check check engine light light?

@abhishekmawandiya6773

7 жыл бұрын

Harry Tsang This comment needs to go up

@yeager6882

3 жыл бұрын

When my check engine light goes on . . . I ignore it and it goes away. 200K still goes on and off for 180k miles. Pfffft, check engine lights. sure take you to a dealer I'll get you all taken care of just like a dentist

Windows actually has a pop up which shows up saying your drive is going bad..

I remember seeing this on a utility that came with some of my hardware when I built my rig (I think it came with my motherboard). I am very glad that this video not only explained it fully to me but also is getting the word out to people because having an early warning system, even with only a 77% detection rate, can save people data.

🎵🎶🎶🎵 I am so smart, S-M-R-T. 🎵🎶🎵

@chbrules

7 жыл бұрын

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

Apparently the SMART partition of my HDD is damaged and my HDD is going to die some day. It's been preforming very slowly recently, and I can't afford an SSD. There's event a prompt right after POST that I can't disable, all the time. One day, ill try to turn on my computer and it just won't. Just waiting for it's inevitable demise, _like you and I._

@agafaba

7 жыл бұрын

Story of my life

@feynstein1004

7 жыл бұрын

You're the Avatar, mate. Couldn't you like, ask someone to gift you an SSD?

@alexvillalobos7137

7 жыл бұрын

Jonhy456 yeah just get a cheap 40 dollar hard drive or that caviar blue thingy

@jspinks2388

7 жыл бұрын

Oh I don't know why, their most affordable they have ever been..save your bucks and get one..one of the best things you could do and run a circle track Laps over HDD Lol

@LEXXIUS

7 жыл бұрын

If an SSD is too expensive then just go for a mechanical drive. You get plenty of storage space for a really low price nowadays.

Love the ding sound affect and the flashy smile! Great video

@mwbgaming28

7 жыл бұрын

unfortunately that is where the video ends and the shameless plug begins

@Werdna12345

7 жыл бұрын

MWB Gaming If you don't like the sponsor spots, I think they have a way to watch there videos in better quality without ads on their forum

@mwbgaming28

7 жыл бұрын

but you have to pay for that i prefer their passive ads where they use sponsored components in a build or whatever

@edi781

7 жыл бұрын

It is at the end of the video, there's no more content to watch so you can just leave. What is the problem?

@mwbgaming28

7 жыл бұрын

the ads are still wasting my data allowance which i have to pay for and in some videos he puts extra content after the shameless plug at the end

i have a 640 gig drive with smart alert running since about 5 years now and still going...yep very smart thing to do

I'm using SpeedFan (temperature monitoring and fan speed control). It includes a S.M.A.R.T. tab in its window which is the only function I use in SpeedFan. You have to check periodically on your own though, there is no automated warning.

The problem with Smart for the HDD is that it doesn't work. If a drive is about to die, it will die. And smart won't tell you anything that would indicate that it will die. Smart is useless. It's just a bunch of statistics. Best thing you can do is don't even bother with Smart. Just have a back-up of your data. Or multiple copies if you have the money to spend on extra hdd's or ssd's or whatever storage devices you use. Or back up to the internet. Always back-up.

@joseluislopes3956

7 жыл бұрын

On HDD yes, only in very rare ocasions it gives any useful warning, the best signal an HDD is failing is it becoming slow or making weird noises. On SSDs tho, it usualy gives warnign soon enough to make a backup

I've been using Crystal Disk Info for many years, does help and like you can get the values of and set tolerances if needed. Also for others.. yes there is an option to convert the HEX to Decimal format.

this video couldn't have come at a better time

Have you done an episode on difference between a PC monitor and TV monitor and hence go into why there is such a price difference?

how fast after reporting an error will the drive die?

@drakhavik

7 жыл бұрын

Depends. The error will likely give an estimated life on the drive.

@RedFlaggWaving

7 жыл бұрын

It varies based on the issue, and even most of the time using SMART won't give you any sort of "days left to live" thing. Basically, if SMART detects an error, just immediately back up your stuff and replace the drive as soon as you can. I actually have a laptop drive that started making whining and clicking noises every so often, so I replaced it and kept it. I now have it in my Desktop PC and it only makes noises rarely. There are no SMART errors reported, surprisingly.

@tjeulink

7 жыл бұрын

+redflaggwaving that is horrible advice lol. drive's give errors right out of the factory, its inherent to their production process. you should maintain the 1 2 3 backup protocol on any data you care about. www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ and no, dropbox etc is not a backup.

@Ttomisabeast1581967

7 жыл бұрын

It depends on what the error is. I had a drive last over a year after SMART first noticed something wrong with it.

@StephenAngelico

7 жыл бұрын

+tjeulink It's not horrible advice, it's oversimplified (which for some people, meaning those who don't understand technical stuff as much as you or I, is fine). Of course back up stuff you care about, but I would suggest as soon as S.M.A.R.T. gives a warning, figure out what is going to fail and make sure you are prepared for a failure in whatever way is right for your situation. So if the Reallocated Sector Count is excessively high, check data integrity and if necessary restore a backup to a new drive. If something indicative of old age is the problem, take a backup now or do a dump straight onto a new drive.

If you backup, you don't really need to worry about it, unless your backup drive fails lol

@mhz459

7 жыл бұрын

It would be smart is smart can be used on portable data bank

I work as a data recovery engineer and can definitely vouch about the SMART issues. Also, please backup. :( I hate it when I cannot recover your data because of platter damage.

@motoryzen

7 жыл бұрын

First rule of I.T. is ...backup. Second rule of I.T. is ...backup. Third rule...know your infrastructure. Fourth rule...monitor...everything. Fifth rule...if the end user wants to do something person and it DOESN'T involve the company what so ever...check with that end user's manager if it isn't a common sense " hell no and do it with your own cell phone on YOUR cellular network"...choice. That's all I have for now. :D

@pickelsvonbrine

7 жыл бұрын

Oh how true your statement is. Unforunately, I see even business RAIDs and hard drives come through... Why there was no backup I will never know. Then again, people always assume that RAID is a backup when all it is is reduncency. Redundent does not mean replicated. It simply reduces the likelihood of failure.

@motoryzen

7 жыл бұрын

PrB Pickles Indeed. There should be multiple backups..AND multiple TYPES of each set of backups regardless.

@pickelsvonbrine

7 жыл бұрын

Yep and surprisingly there rarely is... :( For a small business to have a catastrophic level of data loss it could mean the end of their business.

@jjbeatle2006

7 жыл бұрын

yeah it sucks...and more when the client don't understand it...

Luke, you actually saved me. I had all of my engineering projects and 4 years of research (nearly 1.5TB) all saved on my laptop. I just checked using the SMART feature and my drive is about to fail. Thanks to your last install video for swapping drives on your bamboo laptop I will be able to fix this with a new HDD or even SSD. Seriously though I may have been unable to pursue my dream career if it wasn't for this video since everything I ever designed is on there. I think i'm also going to pick up an external HDD for backup too just in case! Thanks Linus media group!!!

@NexusXP

2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@josh22920killer

2 жыл бұрын

@@NexusXP yea man, it saved me. Funny how a KZread how to video can save a career

@NexusXP

2 жыл бұрын

@@josh22920killer That's great

I just started having problems with my SHDD when i saw this video in my subs, you guys are saints.

Thanks for your clips. Have found them very informative and helpful :) was hoping you could do a clip for us audio content creators. Am eagerly waiting for the new Ryzen chip so I can build an Audio processing beast of a computer ! Would Love some advice from you as you explain things so well !

Are you saying S.M.A.R.T is D.U.M.B? Doesn't Always Monitor Badness...

@CatThingy

7 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean D.A.M.B.?

@purekeynoob

7 жыл бұрын

Ya how did you fail at that acronym, so easy, doesn't USUALLY monitor badness.

@hippityhop7555

7 жыл бұрын

Doesn't Usually Monitor Badness

@purekeynoob

7 жыл бұрын

HIPPITY HOP That's exactly what SMART does, it tallies every time something happens that isn't ideal including small things like power on count, which is brutal in the long run compared to power on hours like 1k hours to 1 power on count as far as wear goes, Power ons and hard stops are the best way to kill a hard drive besides the obvious physical abuses.

thank you

You looked so accomplished with that last pun.

on any HDD try running first Spinrite software for a reliablity test and more writen by Steve Gibson. It is a tool that you can use to re-map and potencially get the data from a bad secetor and relocate it.

"That's the SMART thing to do" [teeth sparkle].. Lol

I would like to see Shadowplay vs OBS vs Raptr vs Dxtory. I think these 4 programs are the main programs used to capture gameplay. (Fraps and Bandicam used to be huge) It would be nice to see which has the best footage and which has the biggest FPS / performance hit. Since I suspect Shadowplay to be superior. A Green vs Red comparison of these programs would be nice too.

Anyone remember WD caviar 850Mb drives? I went through about 6 of them in a couple of days in 2 different PCs lol. They all just starting making a loud clack sound every 2 sec or so, opened 2 of them up and found the heads were just bashing themselves into the center hub at full noise from the outermost position.

so much for SMART technology, almost all of my failed drives died before they smart tripped.. admittedly though they ere mostly all seagate drives and I haven't had the problem since i switched to other brands **cough** WD **cough** **cough**.. that was back in the olden days though, back before the 2GB barrier was broken. Would love to see a chart of how much S.M.A.R.T technology has improved over the years.. seems like drives are far more reliable than they used to be... or maybe that's just because I switched brands... I even have a drive that was smart tripped years ago and its still going without problems.. I just use it for secondary backups so no biggy if it dies.

The problem is that there is no standardization for reporting metrics. This means that a value of hundreds of errors could be completely normal, or there might be a value of zero even when there are critical errors. It's confusingly random, and I say confusingly, because it basically makes SMART useless.

You could make a video about storage drives cache and what it affects

Thanks!

from spoiled vegetables over relationships to hard drives, great transition

I just ran Seatools a few days ago & it didn't report any errors. Yet my Hitachi HDD is over 5 years old. I wonder if the bearings will go out before anything ever gets remotely corrupt.

Now that you covered this how about covering software based mirroring using something like Windows backup of filesync.

Backups, one is none and two is one. Use both state backups, such as system images, and dynamic such as raid.

Private Trackers AS fast AS possible

I use both CrystalDiskInfo and Hard Disk essential for my clients

You guys should do a video on why LCD screens get slow when it gets super cold outside. I can't find much info about it on Google :(

Win10 has a SMART error popup... ive seen it. My bios also shows SMART errors

1:50 works in PowerShell too

My laptops smart was one of the 23% didn't alert errors. Thankfully was able to recover my files.

There are a lot of times when studying for a CompTIA exam that I'm hoping to find a video from you guys on a random topic. Happy when I find one. Angry when I don't! D:

3:11 LTT must trademark that 😂

awesome, thanks for the vid.

Would be Nice if the "Current"..Worst" and "Threshold" were explained.... As many dont understand how to understand it right.

I wouldn't mind if S.M.A.R.T. extended to other hardware, though. It would be nice to know in advance if my graphics card or sound card was having issues _before_ it completely crapped out on me.

Very informative!

2yrs with a intel Taylorsville Data Center SSD 800gb that says S.M.A.R.T. error. Zero issues and windows still gives me the same. Could it be bad? Yep. But the drive is built for data center clusters in HP blade systems and a work horse used on a desktop pc. But doesn't mean it couldn't go.

"If you liked this video, like it. If you didn't like it, dislike it" - Ah man this takes me back.

please do an as fast as possible with proper battery care / extending battery life and common myths (battery memory in lithium-ion batteries, for example)

Backups need to be made ***LONG BEFORE*** you receive any smart errors. If you're seeing smart errors, there's a chance you've already lost data... [Edited, because I forgot again what dashes before and after a word do in these comments...]

@JonJaded

7 жыл бұрын

I got one... : ( Corrupted my windows...

@GraveUypo

7 жыл бұрын

that's what smart warnings are for. i have a 1tb hdd that's seen so much action its smart recommends me backing up my data, even though it still works flawlessly.

@sha_ra_d

2 жыл бұрын

@@JonJaded i can feel that...

Here's a warning for very few people I suppose, but for which I always like to share. Back in the holiday seasons of last year, I had two 3tb Seagate drives on my Synology DS214play flagged with SMART errors while I was out on vacation. The way I understand it, Synology NASs automatically stops working when drives give out SMART errors, and since both were flagged simultaneously after a firmware upgrade, I almost lost all my data. I ended up having to plug one drive into the PC, pay for recovery software (there's no good free alternative to recover data from hdds with the proprietary filesystems these NASs use), and then buy another two drives to get the whole thing up and running again. They were brand new, couple of months of usage. I have no way to prove it or to be absolutely certain about it, but I'm almost sure that it was the NAS firmware update that borked the drives. I'm still using them as external units without a problem, and I just got a kit to reset the SMART status as it's something understandably hard to do ( or else the market of used hdds would be filled with soon to fail drives). I certainly understand the company overzealoussness regarding safety, specially in face of so many Seagate drives specifically with 3Tb that failed in recent years, but it was a horrible experience for me personally. And I also have to mention that I got my NAS pre-packaged with the drives on Amazon... it wasn't a case of me putting bad drives there on my own, they came with the NAS. Perhaps it was pure coincidence and both my Seagate drives are yet to fail, but honestly, I've been using them for almost a full year now with no signs of it actually failing. So there you go. It's common knowledge I guess, but if you do have critical data, don't trust a single NAS to keep it safe, even if you are running it on RAID 1.

Superfetch a.k.a Readyboost As Fast As Posible

I just watched an interesting ad before this video.

@gabumoh

7 жыл бұрын

WhattheDesigns™ | SELTEN INTROS Microsoft Taiwan some ad about Microsoft office 365 P. S. It wasn't in English.

@praxxor718

7 жыл бұрын

ads are getting smarter

@gabumoh

7 жыл бұрын

Prax xor Yeah for the past month, other than the few annoying 8 minutes long ads that appears, the ads are quite good.

@praxxor718

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Umoh You missed the joke but whatever.

why dose memory cards and hard drives comes in specific storage space ?

Damnit TheLegend27!!!

one of my hdd's have these massages from windows everytime i reinstall windows that is about to die for 4 years now, still haven't died :D its just storage hdd tho. Seagate tough.

Thanks Luke ! Maybe a video on boot loaders ? or MBR vs UEFA in a bit more detail that the "BIOS and UEFI" video ? :')

i feel Smarter all ready

Sad thing about is that many companies tool ( smart ) says the driver is good even when it's failing just so they don't claim warranty or just have a policy that warranty is applicable only if the drive is almost dead with missing files until that time the 1year warrenty may be over ... I had a drive with allocated sector error (75) and gradually increasing once it gone above the critical and driver just failed they said it's my mistake somehow that I peer pressured the hdd to give himself up.....

Got lag, turns out it was my hdd. Causing issues right in the middle team fights, crazy.

using cmd to check my HDD it says Predf, I looked it up and it means "predicted to fail". I think im fine

My grandma's old Dell laptop ate two HDDs in its life time before they had to get a new one. At first it worked fine, but after a few years it was starting to run terribly slow and the HDD light was constantly on, so we turned it in to a computer repair shop who determined that the HDD needed to be replaced. She got the old one back in a nice external 3.5" SATA-USB enclosure and we saved her files, only for the new drive to meet the same fate in just a few months. It was very odd.

Intel Optane AFAP (A Big New Thing that's kinda confusing for many)

Good stuff!

my 1tb hitachi from 2009 drive has 79 reallocated sectors since a few years anf it still work. i hope this wont change soon

Hopefully my 5 to 6 year old 1TB HDD never shown any problems, did chkdsk, diskdrive status and even used crystal disk last year because it was giving read errors it turned out that I plugged it in the wrong sata port (eSata port embedded on my motherboard).

The main point, make backups if you want to safe guard your data. The only person to blame is yourself if you lose everything from a harddrive failure.

On my other computer, motherboard says smart error and windows doesn't detect one of the drives. Yep, looks like one of the drives died. Looking into it in the weekend. I already have backups of important stuff so it doesn't matter if I lost a drive. It's either the 11 year old hdd or the 7 year old hdd. From the size of the still readable drive, it's the 7 year old one that died.

My 3TB seagate XT drive have only one error, ECC Error Rate, saying failed when checked. but drive is running fine. should be worried...?

I run smart checks regularly (Read: once every few months) but I don't think i've ever ran into a HDD that gave me an error, after which i panicked and backed everything up and replaced the drive usually the drive just starts clicking, but smart thinks it's okay, so i freak out anyway and replace the drive or, even more likely, the drive just gets full of data and a larger capacity drive is available. for example i went from 1TB to 2TB drives and now I have *checking* a 6TB and three 3TB drives. I'll upgrade the 3 TB drive to a 6 TB drive when I fill up a drive. I don't download as much so it shouldn't be an issue. YMMV

An idea for a fast as possible... audio and visual dithering as fast as possible

like to see a clip if bad sectors can be truly fixed. several software out there say it can. but others say it can't.

Cmd prompt says ok but Crystal disk says caution with 97 rellocated

where can I get a SMART check softwear? and which one do you recommend ?

do a video on topics related with wireless transmission of data n instructions

Dat end pun dou

Hello! Is there really any way that I can edit the working hours on a hdd disk or ssd? How can reset the usage time of a disk. Thank you for all your helpful videos!

super helpful

Started buffering when he said bad at the beginning... no joke.

Its weird, I was just having to fix a Mac with a SMART error in its hard drive earlier today and here is the video to explain it.

Parallel computing please

my western digital black 500gb drive that I got from a cash register has been making a loud clicking noise every once in a while for well over a year maybe almost 2 and hasn't failed anything

Thinking about replacing my 10 year old Samsung 5400rpm HDD. It has never given me any problems so far, but 10 years of extended usage, it might be at the end of it's lifespan

Does it work on google drive?

Another good idea is using SpinRite.

My largest drive has been making grindy noises when writing since I got it a few years back, it hasn't really had any issues and SMART says it's fine. Any ideas? It's not bugging me really but it is disconcerting when it does it for like 11 hours after I buy and start downloading everything I got from a steam sale Edit: also SMART sometimes says my external drive is failing even though it is fine and even when I did the command prompt thing it came back fine

Happened to me last week.

loved the funny tooth-ping!

Could you do NAT and Double NAT as Fast As Possible?

i just use the samsung magician, it has a smart segment. not only does it say "ok" or not, but also give you raw and percentage values, so you can check it once every now and then to make your own conclusions

You know most of the time the Hard disk is not bad, never every throw your hard drive until there is a bad sector. If your Hard Drive is producing clicking sounds. If your Bios hangs up most of the time if your hard drive is connected. If your Hard Drive is not spinning up. Then I have tried and tested solution, I will put a video on youtube soon. I hope this can save your hard drive and data.

There is also my old seagate hdd showing such an error since 5 years. I'm ignoring for a while now and the drive still works. xD

If wmic isn't recognised then navigate to c\windows\system32\wbem in command prompt and then use the command "wmic" and "diskdrive get status"

@ferror18

7 жыл бұрын

write vmic first in a separate line then press enter the you get a current directory that looks like wmic:root\cli> then type diskdrive get status (dont change anything) and it will sayit to you then type QUIT (all in caps ) to remove that mode from command prompt

so, it's like term explanation, but lacks short description of smart's attributes

True. S.M.A.R.T. doesn't always warn us. Today my HDD suddenly working very slow. HD TUNE, and many other softwares didn't detect any issues. S.M.A.R.T. didn't warn. I decided to start a test on HD tune...which showed up it's working at 2.5 mbps only.