Several people here have asked why I have not "just purchased a NAS drive", or something to that effect. So to save my fingers typing a reply again and again, here is my answer: 1. There is some confusion here between NAS and RAID. NAS means "network attached storage" -- ie a storage unit connected via a network. Some NAS units have multiple drives configured as RAID (which I explain here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKCDyqWOYNbNprQ.html ). But NAS does not inherently imply the use of RAID. 2. A RAID NAS unit does protect against drive failure. But it does not provide back-up redundancy. This is because any RAID NAS unit -- like any external hard drive -- can be knocked out by a single event, such as a strong power surge or PSU failure (which could fry all of the hardware), theft, a water leak, physical accident, etc. The idea that you can buy a NAS/RAID unit and via its use alone never have to worry about backup is hence flawed (see my video on the 3-2-1 rule here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHqDmLCyfKy2Z7A.html ). 3. NAS is limited to the speed of Ethernet -- currently a max of 1 gitabit, which is six times slower than available via the latest eSATA devices (such as the LaCie D2 Quadra hard drive I show here). 4. It all depends on what you want to do! :) Here I have shown hardware that I use to make deep backups -- ie backups that are kept off-line (none of these drives are ever constantly connected to a PC), with the same data backed up to multiple drives stored in multiple locations, with most kept in cases that are waterproof and shockproof (to a degree, anyway!) and far away from my PCs. I also use these drives for large (100GB+) backups taken on a fairly infrequent basis (every c.10 to 14 days). Using a NAS/RAID unit would hence provide less physical security, less electrical security (as the drives would be constantly powered), and would be slower. There are lots of good uses for a RAID NAS or a home server for file storage purposes. But for my purposes a number of external hard drives held securely in different places is a better solution. 5. I will come back to these issues in a future video! :)

@Humza

7 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid you're mistaken about the "speed of Ethernet". There are several Ethernet standards, which can go in excess of 100Gbit. The current maximum for ethernet over copper Cat5/6/7 is 10Gbit. Although you're correct that the current consumer standard is 1Gbit.

@newrhea13

7 жыл бұрын

ExplainingComputers lmao

@factsverse9957

7 жыл бұрын

ExplainingComputers Hey Christopher! I recently (on September, arrived on November because of issues) bought a 5TB External HDD. It costed $110 (before tax & Import Fees Deposit) during discount (from $130) It's the Seagate Expansion 5TB. It's cheap actually and I could get speeds above 100 MB/s sequential but people online could get close to 1.5 Gb/s (note I wrote Gb) on the drive. I'm not sponsored and thank God the drive is still good. And I filled more than half in less than 6 months. Genius.

@factsverse9957

7 жыл бұрын

ExplainingComputers Btw the server I use to watch this is in GMT +4.

@factsverse9957

7 жыл бұрын

WAROMLUPKFC99 Well I suggest you if you have a 2-core CPU the drive amount is 6-8 drives or 12 drives for cold storage. (6 for high speed, 8 for normal use) to have the most storage with the least power. Although buying less cores will increase the power consumption. 😕

I can remember a Data Center manager proudly showing off the one TB storage his center had, bragging it was "one of only five" in the Eastern U.S. that size (early 1990s). It was the size of two double door commercial refrigerators side by side and required special power and cooling.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Great story. How things have changed.

@turboslag

7 жыл бұрын

Our first business computer system, in about 1988 or so, had a 40 MB HD!! The supplying company proudly stated that it should be some time before we needed anything bigger. Less than 2 years later we needed an upgrade to a massive 80 MB, they were shocked! I should mention that the system ran bespoke software for our company, and when I asked what Windows was, something I found on the system by chance, they replied "don't worry about that, you don't need to use it"!!

@fcarvajalbrown

7 жыл бұрын

It'd be so cool to watch that video

@bryantfloyd7471

7 жыл бұрын

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980. It uses film head technology and has a unit capacity of 2.52 gigabytes (two hard disk assemblies each with two independent actuators each accessing 630 MB within one chassis) with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time was 16 ms. Purchase price at time of introduction ranged from $81,000 to $142,200. Due to tribology problems encountered between heads and media, the first units did not ship until October, 1981.

@byonbill9499

7 жыл бұрын

Another hard drive story! In the mid eighties I was working in a DP area and the IBM service man was proudly showing me the latest HD he was installing. It was less then 500 meg and about the size of a carry on suitcase. What really amazed me was a glass window at one end of the drive that he explained was to watch for magnetic material accumulation as it wore off the drive signalling imminent failure !!!!

This guy is hilarious. I love watching him and hearing his English expressions. I also learn a lot from him too. Good show, mate!

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoy the show!

@claypotts2334

5 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Good Wholesome Entertainment + Education

@mattgeo5039

4 жыл бұрын

i learn a ton from this gentleman. Good show sir. it is always important to go back and revise the basics ..

Dear Chris, thank you for another awesome video. I love that small problems that you usually have (problem with box opening, wrong screwdriver etc.), that does your videos so so real.

Chris, your diction is impeccable, as always; you are a joy to listen to.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. :)

It's amazing how you can bring us these amazing, but high quality videos every Sunday! I really enjoy your content and always wish for more! Thank you.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. The weekly schedule is sometimes tricky! :)

+ExplainingComputers It's really calming to watch your videos because you take time to explain things and don't rush things (for example with the ports, I'm used to stop the video because many other youtubers show them for maybe 2 seconds and skip to the next part)

watching ur vids is extremely satisfying and informative , always love the clarity of explanation and camera work and angles

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

I love your videos and the way you carefully explain everything. And the unboxings are genuine (e.g. when you struggle with the packaging) - I like this realistic touch. Wish I found your channel earlier - and your second channel is also interesting. Hope to see many more videos in the future!

Mr. Screw Driver is not a happy camper... upstaged by a punk Allen key yet again.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

OK, top comment of today. But next week at least Mr Scissors gets a productive look in! :)

@ThatFellowOnline

7 жыл бұрын

A welcome return!

@jameslaidler4259

6 жыл бұрын

3DOTNEWS This has the potential to become the nerdiest comments based soap opera ever.

Great video, it always amazes me how my and others storage needs continue to grow exponentially. I remember 100 mb hard drives and I used a 40 gb for a long time and it was good, and enough storage. but now in late 2018 I have 27 TB of local storage on hard drives and ssd’s and I barely feel like it’s enough...crazy how much things have changed since the 90’s.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

This is so true.

6:30 its very interesting seeing 4 generations of the same product. thanks for the picture!

Nicely done. Good pick of parts.

Great Video .. as always :-) and also your comments are great and they show you professional skills. .. Thumbs Up.. As I work in the Computer Industrie myself (as a Desktop Support Engineer) I knew how important proper backups are . :-) Greetings from Germany

Love the "works for everybody, doesn't work well for anybody" remark. Nailed it!

I had to double check that I was watching an up to date video. I use a Synology NAS for my centralised storage at home and I have another NAS in a different location as a off site back up. All of my periodical backs ups happen automatically. It's very slick.

Almost 200 000 subscribers, good luck!

Always like your videos. FYI: A friend of mine has a company that makes packing boxes like shown in this video. The outside white Lacie box is cardboard (thickness of a cereal box), but the brown box container on the inside is corrugated material. You mentioned in your video you were taking the drive out of its cardboard box :) I guess if you are in the business of building boxes, you are sensitive to those kind of things. Love the videos, thanks for my weekly tech fix.

I feel like I went back the 80's or something lol. Great channel.

Congrats! I too get very excited over new storage. Looks very nice!

@patrik2259

7 жыл бұрын

Also i might add, Samsung does offer a 2TB 2.5" 9.5mm drive. I have been using a set for about a year now and they indeed very handy drives. www.seagate.com/www-content/support-content/samsung/internal-products/spinpoint-m-series/en-us/samsung-m9t-internal-ds.pdf

@marcofakename6097

7 жыл бұрын

you were able to still get samsung branded spinpoint hdds just a year ago? Their hardware division was bought by seagate around 2009 or so.

@patrik2259

7 жыл бұрын

Yes you are correct. They are sold under the Seagate brand now. But the actual label on the disk still says Samsung Spinpoint, and mine a mare late 2015. I guess they are still manufactured by Samsung maybe?

Once agin, love your videos man! Keep up the good work :)

Great video as always

I run a security system business. Keeping records for the work we have done is a must. I used to have 2 2tb drives in my main tower and they were breaching capacity. Built a storage server with 4 x 6tb drives mirrored giving us 12tb of raid storage. No more clutter for a few years

I built a NAS/RAID box out of a disused rackmount case about 8 years ago and some odd bits here and there and stuffed it with twelve 2tb drives for a total of 20tb after RAID-5 parity. I have two 1gbt ports on this machine and can bond them for 2gbt if I needed to. Could even go faster if I wanted to work at it more, lol. But for my purposes it works out. I don't require off-site storage although honestly I should consider it.I like the little cartridge system you have set up. Could also use a simple SATA dock and use the drives bare also. (I actually have such a dock which is USB 3.0). Although the cartridges certainly offer protection of the connectors, PCB's, etc. on the drives themselves. Yes this comment rambled a bit, lol. Anyway thanks for sharing your storage upgrades with us. Always enjoy watching your videos even if it's on a topic i'm very familiar with.

Looking forward to the video you mention in point 5. Very interesting arguments. Nevertheless there are ways to use a raid NAS server as backup effectively when well protected behind a firewall , locked and connected to mains through an UPS.

Hey Chris, your videos are good. You are doing a good work ! You deserve more subscribers 👍🤘

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

I totally get what you are saying Mr ExplainingComputers. I am an Electronics and Computer Engineering Technologist that was in the military for 20 some years and you do exactly what needs to be done to get the maximum amount of security (I don't think they get this part too good) and amount of data backups that should be done. Users giving total control to manufacturers and programmers to do all of your backups with no intervention by the owner of the data to me is just not safe enough. I've told countless people to do some of those things to their home backup systems, but people only learn after they have failures with their no backup or first backups and then understand the need for 2nd and 3rd (Enterprise/Military) backups on various mediums and off site off line. You do great videos, NAS has its place, 3rd backups and off site off line backups have their place too.

nice An explainingcomputers just before my birthday :)

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday! :)

@hxptxc

7 жыл бұрын

hello

@marcofakename6097

7 жыл бұрын

As he said "just before" I guess it isn't his birthday yet and in some countries it's considered bad luck to get congratulations early. Well done guys, now his harddrives will fail all at once, a ram error corrupts all the data on his SSD and for good measure his steam account will get hacked.

It just wouldn't be Sunday morning without Explaining Computers!! :)

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Love your videos i would love to see a video comparing brands of HDD's and models as well so us as consumers know what is most reliable as well as what is the most bang for our buck :-)

I really enjoy your videos, sir. Makes me happy. :)

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear they make you happy. :)

I love this video. Can't wait to see the 1TB flash drive video in 3 years.

@akashmlal

4 жыл бұрын

I gues you did not find 1TB flash drive. Did you ?

Excellent video.

Great Video. And as one who also opens many boxes weekly, thanks for the Laughs.

Another great video

Thanks for the video!!! Can SSDs be used for back up instead of HDDs?

I have a old PowerMac G4 which is stuffed with storage which i use as NAS for storage of most my files, I also have a small WD Elements 2TB USB drive which I think is great and it's very small considering it's storage size which I use for complete image backups. Good video, interesting watching about storage I think anyway.

I considered the question about backup all our photos, videos and all data for archive only. After comparing current solutions, I chose the tape drive HP Storageworks HH LTO-3 (the better and faster SCSI external tape drive for this generation). The 3rd generation is now cheap (~150€ or better for 97% lifetime) if you take it on eBay, but, of course, this is not new material, so it's important to have the informations about the lifetime of the drive. I also found new cartdriges for ~20€ / 400gb uncompressed (up to 800 compressed), and a SCSI Adaptec in a HP Microserver. For sure, the first cost is higher than hard drives, but after that, this is a very solid backup, and cartdriges are strong for conservation and easy for storage. But yes, I know you used this in your company, but for the current price, this is a interesting alternative if you wish make backups for a long archive, in addition to hard drive especially if you need to load back your backup ! Anyway, this is a very informative channel, thank you for your videos !

Having some storage with me at all times is a life-saver. I keep my 32gb sandisk cruzer blade USB along with my keys. Wery handy for my audio files that i transfer between school and home.

Thanks for another great video Chris. Your strategy for backing up large video files seems quite sound indeed. I wonder if you could tell us the effect of size differences between videos created on 32 bit machines, versus the newer 64 bit windows machines? Possibly not very significant, but wanted ask. Thanks.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. 32 v 64 bit Windows (and other software) has no impact on the size of video files produced.

Thanks for the Pelican idea! That is indeed better than a Tupperware container. (I guess I've only been worried about water, so far.)

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Before I got the Pelican case(s) I tested lots of different Tupperware and other common plastic boxes by holding them submerged under a few inches of water. Every single one leaked water into the box! So for water protection alone, I use Pelican. :)

great video ... i used a 500gb drive in a NDAS(network direct attached storage ) for years ... this has the advantage of simply showing up in windows as a local disk unlike NAS which requires a bit more tinkering .... however NDAS drives have become impossible to buy and now i simply use a 1tb external drive attached directly to my router and mapped using windows ( to appear on all computers on the network ) .. the advantage with this is not only can i see the files using windows map network drive but can also access them on my android devices using "es file explorer " ..... network storage can be troublesome if your a content creator and require massive network storage but for the general pc home user like myself its much easier than you think .... keep up the good work mate

Hey Chris, been watching for a while. I was wondering what you have in your computer to be able to plug drives in like that. It sounds like something I need :)

hey ExplainingComputers, i am looking for a good 64-128GB USB 3.1 SS flash drive, can you make a comparison between drives and show which one is the best for quick file writing?

Nice Work Is that a Fujitsu siemens machine your'e working on ?

Seems doubtful many of us who really got going in computing when 1.44 mb floppies were the cat's meow have ever run out of storage (much) since those meager days passed.

What are you going to do with the replaced hard drives? Are you planning giving them a second chance or straight to the reclycing center?

I didn't have very good luck w/ some rugged Lacie drives (rubberized edges) - think these will really work for me? Do you use cloud backup services?

When you run out of storage, give the Western Digital My Book a try! These drives can reach speeds of up to 191MB/s.

I was very surprised to see a 15mm blue drive. I've only really been seeing the 15mm drives in SAS format in recent years. I used to see them a lot more in the 90s and used to have a 2GB seagate IDE drive that was 2.5mm x 15mm from an old laptop.

It would be nice if you could show us how you organize your backup structure with that nice charts and diagrams you usually use fr other things. I know you have several computers doing diferent kind of stuff, and now you show several drives, how will you orginize all of that?I.e. the 5 tb new drve,, will be connected to what computer? Will them be turned on all the time or are you having any dfrive poower control circuit? and when the backup will run? This kind of rules are quite complicated for me to create, and I finally end relying in Deja-dup for a day to day backup. Thanks!

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

What a great idea for a video! Noted with thanks. In answer to your last question, none of these drives are constantly powered or connected to any PC. All live in different locations well away from computers, and are connected and powered about once a fortnight.

Should call this video "Explaining Cardboard Boxes".

Chris do you ever use disk fresh or some type of software to rewrite over the exact data to protect against bit lost. Thanks Ed

Do you have a LINK to the USB to Sata cable you are using? I need to backup a Dell All in One to a SSD and then take it apart to install the SSD. The Dell drive has 2 partitions, one for recovery from factory and other for data. I'm assuming Windows Tools will let me make 2 partitions on the new drive so I can backup the factory partition as well as Boot Data.

Very nice video as always! I didn't see RAID of any type in your storage solution I would appreciate your reasons. Also no network drives (NAS, SAN [storage area network]), or any remotely available drives please explain. Many thanks again, I always look forward to your videos!

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

See my pinned comment! :)

More storage than i will ever need!

Windows 10 right click on start, one of the options is disk management. Though I normally do windows key plus r and type in "diskmgmt.msc" as I'm a certified geek.

This seems very complicated! Apart from my NAS (which holds the primary copy of all things), I've standardised on the 2.5 inch WD Passport drives for all backups. The 4TB versions are USB3, and the volume they sell of these means they're actually cheaper than getting a bare drive and making your own.

There is a nice firmware update for those drives originally limited to 2 TB. I've just use it on one of mine and it now supports a 5 TB. The firmware dates back to 2011 but the one on my drive it was from 2008.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

This is extremely useful info for me. I will certainly check it out! Thanks.

@KelvinEM

5 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Glad I could contribute to your wonderful videos!

I have several WD drives myself for my two Linux Machines and I used the old WD drive that was in my Acer Aspire One 725 as backup storage with an enclosure. Yes I bought the same netbook you did only I used it to install Arch Linux.

This guy is the OG wealth of knowledge if he didn't exist I don't think a lot of these new yuppie YT tech shows like Linus and shit wouldn't have half the video ideas 💡

How do you take care of the old drives you have used? Do you just waste them or use for other purposes?

Crazy to think that not so long ago a 500GB drive was seen as massive and all the storage we will ever need. Now I'm sitting here with 6TB of drives and they are almost full :/

mad as a bag of frogs I love your videos

oldschool Lacie.. i remember getting these regularly back at the shop for being faulty..

I have a PC with just *one* hard drive. After 5 months, only used 500 GB out of my 2 TB hard drive (most of it is from games) which came with my PC. I also had a Atom laptop (now I have Lubuntu installed) which had 320 GB, and only used 40 GB on Windows 10.

Heard about some problems with Corsair Voyage 64Gb GTR failing a lot, how is your 128Gb GT holding?

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

My 128GB Corsair is still working very well. It is my main on-person backup drive -- all of my video projects in production are backed up to it pretty much daily in an 80GB VeraCrypt partition, so the drive gets really hammered (frequently writing 10-20GB/day), and it has never let me down.

Hi, nice video as always, thanks for it :) One thing on my mind - why do you have 11.9GB of unallocated space on your main drive?

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the unallocated space on a system drive SSD? If so, it is to improve the life and performance of the drive.

what do you think of high capacity drives like Seagate's 10TB options?

I built my own home server with 4x 4TB in RAID10 last month. Still working on external and cloud backups.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

That is a nice RAID array. :)

I just got my first 4 TB 2.5 inch laptop drive the other day... Needless to say, I was very surprised when I took the enclosure apart to find such a chunky drive... It's a Western Digital Passport btw... In Yellow, lol... Thought it would be easier to keep track of in my truck since I like to keep a copy of my entire network with me in the truck while I'm out on the road...Kinds sucks right now though... I don't have a PC with USB 3.0 or 3.1... I'm using a 2014 model Dell Inspiron 3542 running an Intel Celeron dual core @1.4 GHz... I don't have to say that ~21 MB per second over a USB 2.0 connection is too slow when you're shifting TERABYTES of information... It's been running for around 18 hours now... It's moved about 800 GB so far, with 985 GB left to go, and that's just one section of one drive.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

4TB 2.5" is amazing! :) Note that your 2014 Dell should be able to be fitted with a PCIe to USB 3.0 expansion card . . .

I can't believe how many times you were asked about NAS, especially considering the specific efforts you made to explain it. Makes me want to scream READ THE POST! You're a man of great patience Sir. 😇

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

I will go and lie down in dark place now . . .

While I do enjoy your video on Storage Update, I personally got tired of buying all the back up drives like your LaCie unit and the empty enclosures as well, and I went directly to a USB 2.0 interface Hard Drive Docking Station, that allows me to plug in SATA hard drives directly into it, and can handle up to 2 terabyte hard drives that I store in Hard Drive storage boxes (I buy from China) on my desk! In fact my data storage used to be a number of self made Hard Drive Enclosures, which I still have a few kicking about, but I don't use them much anymore after I amassed as many as 30 units all with 320 GB IDE hard drives in them, even though they too connect via a USB 2.0 connection as well! So in short my "solution" now is the 8 2 terabyte hard drives I use now as I stated, and I simple buy a new hard drive, stick it in the dock, initialize it and move on with my life without all the added money spent on empty enclosures! For me GoHardDrive On eBay out of California has the best prices on SATA 2 terabyte hard drives at around $45 to $60 and I have bought all my hard drives from them recently as well, as most of the time those drives are brand new and they are "enterprise" class hard drives as well! But still you do have a great video and I do enjoy watching your channel often enough as well!

I just wanted to ask out of curiosity, but would a NAS computer be more helpful with your storage situation? I am not trying to sound rude, I'm just curious. :3

The Lacie is a great drive, used to use them when i was involved in film making. Although very overpriced imho. But be aware, despite them looking very rugged, we had a failure after one was knocked over, i recommend not using the stand!

what are those things he used where he could just slide the hard drive in and out of the desktop i ask because on my next pc build im wanting to use an m.2 ssd but i still feel i need to rely on hard drives for emergency situations and that sliding thing would be perfect for that

eSata is new to me. Does that mean I could connect that external hard drive to my internal Sata slot somehow? But it looks like the eSata cable won't fit

Where and how can I get an old, new or refurbished 5-1/4 inch floppy disk drive that works?

Good evening, Chris. This appeared in my recommendations several years late! Just curious, how are your WD 2.5" drives holding up? I have a 320GB Black from 2009, originally in a laptop, taken to university and carried around between rooms and in a car for 90 minutes every day. The laptop died, but the disk still soldiers on in a USB 3 caddy. Two WD Blue disks, one 320GB and the other 500GB, both failed, even though they had a relatively care-free life compared to the Black one. One couldn't be picked up in Windows anymore, but I could very slowly image it in Linux. The other had the heads stick to the platter, while it was spun up and bring read from! I opened that and manually turned the spindle to un-stick it, and retrieved the data since the last back up. Both disks reported no issues via SMART, or were slowing down or making unusual noises - sudden failure in both cases. No issues with a Seagate 1TB 2.5" disk so far - 26,882 hours powered on and counting.

@ExplainingComputers

Жыл бұрын

By chance, I am returning to my 2.5 inch backup drives in a video very soon. I've only had one failure -- a 2TB WD Blue that failed after barely a few 10s of hours -- a sudden failure, just like you had. I've never had a WD Black fail.

It's been 3 years now, would love to see an update :-)

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Good video idea, noted.

@stevelee838

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Chris, how about setting up a server/Nas for your home system?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevelee838 I've done various NAS videos here fairly recently, but have no personal use for a NAS. Without upgrading everything to 10 gigabit Ethernet, backing up -- let alone editing -- ProRes video over a network is a non-starter. And no NAS is a credible single backup solution -- it can only ever constitute one element of 3-2-1. So I'll be sticking to multiple offline drives (on site and offsite) connected as required for deep backup, as this gives me the fastest and most robust solution. For videos and other stuff in production, I use a mix of on-machine scratch drives and external SSDs for backup (no file ever hits the edit line before I have three copies on three drives with a least one offline). Maybe I should make a video about all this! :)

@stevelee838

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Thanks for the detailed reply Chris, wish I had a fellow geek friend like you living near me, it would be very "wild" to explore all this "exciting" Computer Technology :D

Thanks’ Chris, your videos are always interesting. I have an advice, check Synology NAS, I'm sure you will be enthusiast.

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind feedback. Though I've no need for a NAS (see my pinned post here). These drives are for duplicate backups and are kept disconnected in different secure locations.

And the drive you unboxed in this video was the first USB 3.0 Lacie D2 Quadra hard drive you have ever owned!

@ExplainingComputers

9 ай бұрын

:)

thanks for the video

Would you make a video explaining how to do the following? I sometimes do not have internet and I want to be able to connect to my WD CloudEX2. Could you explain how to create a connection (either wireless or with Ethernet cables) from the WD Cloud to a Windows PC that is permanent? I want to access my Cloud (without internet) on a regular basis. This was the most similar video on which I could post this question. Like your channel very much. Thanks

Chris i have a problem with a scan-disk cruzer 32gig flash drive i puled it out when i was writing to it i have tried everything to fix it in property's it says its locked i have even tried software to try unlock it wont go any ideas ?

Huh I didn't know 2.5 inch drives come in different thicknesses. Thanks for mentioning it. :-)

still more ports than the latest macbook!

That's interesting to see how thick that WD 2TB 2.5 drive is, almost looks to be the same thickness as a Velociraptor drive. I've got a 2.5" Seagate 2TB drive, and whilst it's not as thin as the 1TB, I definitely don't think it's as thick as the WD equivalent. Interesting how they all vary, I guess it depends on the quantity of platters.

Each to their own solution for data protection! But remember nothing lasts forever!

Can you comment on that drive that takes those cartridges?

0:50 No you didn't Christopher, you said something like "F*#@sticks!"

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is indeed correct! :O

@demonetizeddemonetisedinmy1890

7 жыл бұрын

Fiddlesticks, H.E double hockey sticks.

Good idea to use cartridges :-D I thought we left them in the C64 cupboards ;-)

I'm really surprised you didn'y say Allen the key

Thanks for showing how to format a drive without the 'format' option in Windows 10!!

Are you ever gonna do a windows reinstall or not yet?

To think my dads first harddrive was 40 megs and it was as big as a document scanner. Bought it in the late 80s.

Where should I go to get the infosafe cartridge system?

When you say data is stored in slc or mlc - how is that physically stored after power down? Is the cell magnetised?

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

SSD cells are not magnetised. Data is stored in non-volatile logic gates, effectively in trapped electrons.

Where can I buy the hard drive?

my question is: do you use it via esata? usb? or firewire? Just curious since there are firewire ports present. You might as well daisy chain them drives for simple to access. just by 1 port can access all 😃

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

I mainly access via eSATA.