How To Tell If Your Hard Drive is Failing - Tech Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- This is how you tell if your harddrive is dead or on it's deathbed. Also Linus walks through what to avoid in order to prolong the life of your hard drive. Finally, we suggest that users use SMART in order to test and keep up to date on the status of their drives. HD Sentinel is a great way to keep track of this automatically and it can warn you when something is wrong, or about to go wrong. It can even give you an estimated lifespan remaining on your drive, listed in number of days.
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This guy is definitely going to be famous in the future
Yeah, and have have 3 success channels.
@@John-TV_Random-Videos rip ChannelSuperFun
Yeah ur prediction iz right
Linus tech tips. Linus media group. Multi million dollar companys. Yeah
Is he that guy LinusCatTips?
My computer told me SMART detected a hard drive failure and I should back up the drive...that was 4 years ago and it still works.
You're pretty lucky, i'd say.
I have one (of several other) 14 year old drive in my pc and it still runs. How lucky am I with that?
Lol, I'm not showing off, I'm actualy a little bit worried.
@@MWcrazyhorse how's it holding up 6 years later?
@@yahyasajid5113 Hand to God. It is still running. Another drive failed me, but that one is still running.
@@MWcrazyhorse oh wow man
Notice how Linus's haircut looks like a notch
Nice Cut G
Yee yee ass haircut
Dababy
@@Funkoh Maybe if he got rid of it he'd get some bitches on his tech. Oh, better yet, maybe Yvonne'll call his dog ass if she stop fuckin' with that CEO or PC Engineer she fuckin' with.
Linkin park :)
Kingston SSD: Dies after 3 years
WD Green Hard Drive: Still alive after a decade
I have a WD 1 TB and a Samsung 840 evo 256gb which are still going strong since 2014. I was thinking about swapping them out but theres really no reason to since they both passed their SMART tests. SSD might run out of write space though here soon. Upgrading the 970 is first on the list right now.
yo I have a Kingston ssd stop making me die inside
CrystalDiskInfo says my hdd is "good" but it makes a "scratching sound" every now and then even when its not doing anything should i worry? the read/writes seam ok.
@@stevenwarne69 You should still back up even if it says it's fine, like linus said, hdd's can fail without warning. So the best option would be to just transfer the files you don't want to lose to an external hdd. Things like programs/games can be reinstalled, so you don't really need to back them up.
@@BlazertronGames luckily most of it is just games but yeah, you are right i should pick up a back up drive just in case its better safe than sorry, thanks bud
So I left this tab to go back to it, and saw the tab labeled as "How To Tell If Your Hard" and was starting to question myself.
***** Same story here
XD
***** I leave so many tabs open, it just says "Ho"...
KimJongBill Oh you're so smart. I bet you're so proud of yourself and your smartness. All hail KimJongBill!
Kaare Hansen Well aren't you smart? Read the title of this video.
Kaare Hansen I can say whatever I want fool! Even, "gramma!"
I have an age-old 80GB HDD laying around which sounds like a V8 trying to start when R/W'ing data. But it still works :D
I have an ancient laptop with 40GB HDD and it works perfectly fine too :D
I have a 0.4GB hdd
Well, in the old days things were made not to fail, all other things were not as important. Still have 5 drives from the 90's. None of them failed.
Samster Birdies I don't believe that. I just think that with hard drives that spin faster, made thinner, faster etc. Or just anything being like that, where more complexity and more stress on the product. It just wears out faster. The materials just fail. It's not even a question of design, just a matter of material limits. In engineering we are pushing the boundaries of materials and manufacturing, especially when there is a compromise for cost. I don't think anyone actually wants a harddrive that can last 20 years anyway. Technology advances too fast.
Samster Birdies yes. I meant no general consumer though. I didn't mean it like archive disks and back ups. General consumers don't want it, well wouldn't use it anyway just because of the technology difference in 20 years.
I still remember that damned day. The day all the porn disappeared. I remember it like it was yesterday.
+DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins Me too, sad sad sad
vietnam flashbacks i see
you mean the 200GBs of jav?oh yeah,that is sucks
+DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins Leafys vid about porn was more original(the guy lost like 128gb of porn)
+DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins your name, it's perfect. Died for your spins, because hard drives have plates that spin.
Looking back at this day, I'm just wondering, Linus hasn't aged at all!!
his a Machine then
check the hairline
Idk he finally hit puberty he has a beard now
@@heyhocodyo01 Can't agree more 😹
glow up
I was looking at a technical manual for an old 1998 Seagate SCSI drive, and was really impressed by the amount of detail they went into. As far as temperature, it specified acceptable temperatures for 4 different components, and gave a diagram of where to measure them on the drive. For the head and disk assembly, this particular drive gave the maximum temp as 65C, but strongly recommended not exceeding 55C, and said that temperatures above 45C would reduce the operating life. They also gave an adjustment factor for altitude, and went on to discuss airflow.
Manuals I saw from the early/mid-2000s just give a maximum ambient air temperature surrounding the drive, not for any components of the drive itself, and give no guidance on the optimal range. They also give less detail on reliability.
Manuals for today's drives give even less information, and in many cases they aren't even manuals at all, they're just a 2 page pamphlet with a few basic specs in a chart. The old manuals were over 100 pages. They took their products a lot more seriously back then.
They only did that since a hard drive were a luxury
Is it coincidental or ironic that my desktop hard drive failed while watching this video earlier today?
Damn
+Actxr coincidental, not ironic.
+Actxr both
+Actxr my hdd started showing signs of a dying drive last night...
then today this vid pops up in my recommended vids ?!?!
they're onto us
+JamesSoupMoore93 *looks around* *whispers* ruuun
Finally, a video that actually tells you when the HDD fails, and what to exactly watch out for! Was getting concerned about the read/write clicking sound, but definitely don't hear that click of death I've seen on multiple videos. Fingers crossed that its okay, but have backed up data in case its getting ready to fail.
I have watched many reviews... for me I love the way you explain it. you are my favorite reviewer keep up the good work :)
10 weeks ago I put to rest my 80GB WD HDD, that I have used for 10 years. For fire reasons.
Alexandru Ionescu Holy crap...that hard drive wanted to go out spectacularily, lawl
***** yup. 10 years was enough, apparently :p
Alexandru Ionescu That must have been expensive back then...
Alexandru Ionescu i'm actually using every drive i ever bought into this pc.. there are 4 hdds and 2 ssds in it..
1. was an old wd 500 gb drive i bought it about 8 or 9 years ago with my first computer..
2. is a samsung 750 gb drive
3. is a samsung 1.5 tb drive
4. is a samsung 2 tb drive
5 is a samsung 830 series 256 gb drive for windows, games and software
6. is a sandisk 128 gb ssd for arch linux..
all still work fine.. smart perfect.. once i got problems with pretty bad transfer rates but it turned out as a bad sata cable..
Dunkelelf3 I used to have the same problem with the bad transfer rates you mentioned but I found out the motherboard I was previously using was bad...thank god when I rebuilt my old gaming machine for my little brother I had to use a different motherboard to do so as my old motherboard died from a burnt out RAM frequency crystal.
lol we booted up our DOS machines at our school and the 72mb hard drives literally started screeching and im like wow this hard drive sounds healthy.
I watch NCIX Tech Tips when I run out of things to watch on Linus Tech Tips
Me trying to chill:
My hard drive: sounds of a hurricane
Could it be a small PC case? Have you checked which processes access how much the hard drive?
Defragmentation could help too, at least it sorts data , so it can be read much quicker.
love Linus videos...always informative while cracking me up! Such a rare combo!
*accidentally overclocked your SATA bus* XD I'd love to see what sort of tool tries to overclock their processor and ends up overclocking their SATA controller. I'm guessing Linus is talking from some sort of horrific overclocking experience there.
+TheRebel3000 yeah i thought that too lol
+TheRebel3000 Anyone who does BCLK overclocking, when they have a locked multiplier
Or somebody that doesn't know what he is doing...
Or somebody that doesn't know what he is doing...
+TheRebel3000
back in the duron/athlon/celeron/pentium era, clocking was primarily done with FSB, where most gain could be obtain. one could go VERY high with it by lowering the multiplier on AMD chips but the problem was PCI/ISA clocks were tied with fixed dividers (similar to what BCLK does nowadays), so going over say 37.5MHz could easily lead to data corruption despite forcing a higher voltage to the 3.3 line responsible for powering such parts.
the "problem" was first solved by the best chipset ever made (at that time), "nVidia nForce II", which used a completely decoupled fsb/pci clock generator and as well as providing fine 1MHz tuning for the fsb. the best boards with this tech were the ABIT NF7 series and the DFI Lanparty NF2 ultra B.
best informative video I've seen thank you!! you are a blessing
Looks like I've gone so far down the rabbit hole I'm now watching NXIX Tech tips instead if Linus Tech tips
Damn! Me 2
I'm using a 80GB Maxtor drive that's over 10 years old and has pretty much been running 24/7 for the last 5 years or so.
NCIX can you please give me tips to maintain the life of my floppy disks, they keep corrupting next to my CRT monitor!
Power Max mmmmm floppy disks never worked for me
Power Max Make sure the Drives and disks, are clean and perfectly working and qualty ones, also if you buy new floppy disks, dont. They are absolute crap these days, I have 3 year old ones which are dead but 1 decade old ones fully functinonal.
You know where ;)
Why don't you buy a USB? They are very inexpensive yet.
TFG well, you’re a few years late. And you’re missing the joke.
"Damn you, PHSYICS!"
Made me laugh.
my Seagate 1tb survived 6 years and still working fine :) the only thing I didn't upgraded
sarath chelsea Is that the first or second gen Seagate drive?
i got my 1tb in 2012 and now its starting to fail, but i do take care of my things though, reason why it lasted so long
@@planetx1595 i don’t remember it’s dead now I bought it on 2010
I’m pretty sure your hard drive is dead now
@@hondacrx4909 yes
"Damn you Phsyics" -Video Effect
I've been pretty lucky with hard drives. My portable WD 750GB drive has been dropped, stolen, chucked and tossed around and is over 2 years old. I also have an old Seagate 80GB in my system that's been making grinding and churning sounds when it spins up for about 6 months now. Still works like a charm (I use it for music storage).
This guys awesome. Really good at explaining things!
lol my hard drive havs all the symptoms but the SMART thing says its perfectly healthy, since 2 years or so :D
i would run some read/write test to see if it fails.
With extremely slow he means, it takes like one hour to load the desktop.. I speak from experience from my clearly dying hdd
Nuovo mine too 😣lol
Nuovo same here. Not sure how accurate SMART is. Then again at least it's there to help diagnose issues.
SMART says i have bad sectors but hard drive still works perfectly, it's a Seagate tho
"They're all dead!"
:O Oh noes!
:,(
Julian Depaepe R.I.P.
To much lightning near computer. And lil' jimmy was playig. Zap. Outside house. Inside telly stops and computer ssd Sez Fk my lief I got 81 viruses anyway
[Insert Titanic Theme]
watch?v=saC13RJ8CUs
@1:31 Damn you, "Phsyics"!
little did young Linus know he was about to create a whole company
This is a great video. I have a ssd boot drive and a 1tb hdd. I think I'm going to buy a 2 tb drive to add on and buy a backup drive. The question is, should I buy a backup drive and put it in the same PC, or buy something else like an external drive then unplug it and just keep safe somewhere?
if hard drives can fail from just a short drop of say 2.5' then how can they stand up going through the mail. knowing that the mail system is unforgiving?
You'll know the drive is failing if it has a Seagate logo on it.
+Shawn Smith I didn't know much about hard drives. But my computer has beenacting up in the past 3 months. Sure enough... Seagate.
+Shawn Smith wd ftw
+Shawn Smith I have a Seagate ST3320620AS and its life is 9 years and still going (AKA still alive). So shut the fuck up.
All hard drives fail just like how you are dying right now
+Shawn Smith False, own dozens of Seagates and use three in my rig and the only dead hard drives I have owned are Toshiba and Western Digital.
That was super as usual,, i find task manager tell you a lot about drive and every thing else.!!!
I know this Is a old video but great info! specially for a newbie like me, thanks!
Here's a bit of a cool story.
I have a 250gb seagate hdd right.
So there I was making music. Just finished exporting new track that I spent several hours on.
Avast gives me a notice that it's detected win32 malware gen.
Decide to run malwarebytes
All g.
Computer restarts.
Apparently something happened along that process and my computer is now on an infinite restart loop.
The OS got funky cause the hdd decided it was a good idea to y'know, fail, there were certain crucial files related to the OS that the hdd decided was unimportant. They went bye-bye and got corrupted during the whole get rid if this virus deal.
At first I thought it was the virus that somehow managed to fuck up my computer. But it was actually just the hard drive going spastic.
Damn. Just in case you don't know, if you are lucky and the track is still intact, you can retrieve it by booting from your bios into a bootable USB like hirens boot or any other tool. from there you can enter to, for example, miniwindows xp, and retrieve any file that isn't dead. Good luck!
i have 6-7 year old drives no errors, haven't been used often at all, how much longer you think ill get if i use it(turn it on every week) 0 i'm using a drive dock bay
I bought my hard drive in 2010, and checking SMART or CrystalDiskInfo as another comment said shows that my harddrive is perfectly fine. We might've just gotten luck, and we also could have drives that suddenly fail without warning. I could buy an HDD and start backing up properly, but I might roll the dice a little longer.
coming back to this in 2021, thanks linus.
Amazing info thank you.
I just had a sudden vision of completing my thesis and having my harddrive fail on me. *shudders*
even 8 years later you give me awnsers like noone does!
This is just proof that his knowledge is timeless.
I know this one is old, but i noticed my drive failing as well when copying files, but the one error to look for back in the day was always that cyclic redundancy check thing... Now I use Hard Disk Sentinel now for all kinds of monitoring.
You can configure your system to shut off hard disks when not in use. The whole idea of leaving a computer running all the time came from socket creep. I don't know if newer machines have that issue but 20 or so years ago the constant heat/cool cycle of turning a computer on and off everyday caused the cards to creep out of their sockets.
Good ol' mechanical HDD's are like an old truck. It grinds and makes questionable noise but by some miracle still works just fine :D
Meanwhile I'm running my gaming PC on a 160GB SATA drive from 2006 and it's still healthy.
Yeah I have a PC from 2007 running Vista and it's still good
I have an iMac from 2007 and it takes 6 hours to shut down XD
There's something seriously wrong with it then because my Mum's iMac from 2007 works just fine!
Bjork Vlogdok Yea, now it doesn't boot :D. Missed the chance to backup...
Kidsnd274 I had a defective HDD from Toshiba once... BSOD about five times a week, then I replaced it and all was well :D
How long do hard drives generally last? Or does it widely vary? One of my old hard drives has been used about 9 years.
Would it be better to have a tower lying on its side than standing upright. Mine has rubber feet (Dell) on the side panel. Excellent video by the way!! Thank you.
How to know your HD is failing: step 1# Check brand. step 2# if Seagate answer is yes, it's failing. step 3# if other brand check advanced guide.
To be honest, they're not that bad.
They have the highest percent of failed drives compared to any other manufacturer
depends on what you are using the seagate for. IMO dont install your OS on a seagate but rather use seagate as a secondary storage HDD
fuck ur sooo damn right mine one is seagate and its dead fuckk u seagate whereer u are
and mine is running for 3 years now and i don´t have any problems. built other pcs with them too, for friends and they haven´t complained.
This guy should start his own TH-cam channel.
Rip my amazing hard drive.. 2010 - 2019, you will be missed so dearly. And my computer was never backed up...
My computer just got slower and slower over time, and the hard drive was well maintained. I swept it under the rug and assumed it was age. And that was when it failed.
All my data. My Minecraft worlds I spent years in and on. My process using custom redirects.
Gone. Idk if I’ll ever play Minecraft again since my motivation has been lost ever since it happened
Bruh, that really sucks. Now I want to backup all my worlds next time I get my computer on. I hope you can eventually get your motivation back, even if it will probably take a long time after that.
Oh shit, mine is like 2008 dude, I'm FUCKEDDDDDD
@@adamcallow8451 Back that shit up, dude.
Mine is like 2012s, but it’s already giving me the error... I am not scared however. No Minecraft words for me.
USB drive or Google drive
Hey nice video i have a studio xps 9100 I have done every possible chek and everything pops up ok but it's starting to boot up very slow and it started doing this like last month any suggestions if you would like the specs let me know if it will help for a better opinion and I just put a ssd not to long ago
Hey Linus I've been watching your videos for a \while and haven't seen anything about knowing if you PSU is failing I have a Evga Nex750B and recently its been making a whining noise so I was just wondering if that means it failing.
Thats called coil whine, linus has a video on his personal channel, if you search "What is coil whine, linustechtips" you will find it.
this is a common on transformers in general that they are dying, but bear in mind allot of transformers will make a whining noise if they have a high load or a wery low load, so if you resently changed the system that might be it
berzu21 Thanks to all of you guys
Nice video but honestly I stay away from Seagate hard drives they constantly fail unless you firmware update them I have a western digital 350 gig ide and 4 2tb drives as well and none needed firmware fixes and there still going strong even the 350 gig at 10 yrs old this year
+john m I agree, I have had a number of harddrives over the years from a bunch of manufacturers and the Seagate harddrives always fail on me. I don't buy those Seagate drives anymore.
Hello John you hit the jackpot! Most of my seagate harddrive dies easily compared to western digital. I have 2 and still running for almost more than 10years now.
Great. I just bought 2 4tb Seagate drives yesterday. I was weary about them .-.
Your read head imitation @2:28 is spot on
I'm using a Toshiba P300 7200rmp 3TB hard drive and it isnt even a year old yet I've always thought its quite noisy sometimes... Its increasingly started to worry/annoy me and I'm wondering if I should get it replaced while its still hopefully under warranty. SMART says its ok but sometimes I'm not even doing anything and it starts scratching/grinding quite loudly or even beeping/clicking and when I look at my Advanced SystemCare monitor, under processes with high disk I/O it sometimes say its at 100% for a few seconds when I'm not even doing anything in particular... I use an SSD too and I don't heavily use my HDD, its about 1/3 full and I don't use it excessively either. I didn't notice any of the other symptoms mentioned in the video and its also not suffered any of the main causes of failure mentioned so I dont know whether I should be worried. Advice?
Honestly it's the best setup to have an SSD for your programs and OS with a mechanical drive for mass storage. It reduces the wear and tear on both drives and it makes sure that the mechanical drive has plenty of downtime and only spins up when it has to. Even for me with a Seagate drive as a mass storage drive it's lasted me years with no problems whatsoever
+BagelCollector Or Use Raid 1/10
Nobbs66 And spend 4x as much on harddrives? Okay
+BagelCollector Not only that, you can create images of the boot drive to your mass storage. (I use Macrium Reflect). SSD dies, no problem, buy a new one, boot with rescue media, re-image it with the original. If it's a bigger drive, then in Windows after you boot, just extend the partition to its full size. No headaches. I use 2x3TB in Raid-1 for mass storage.
+BagelCollector Or even better, 4 SSD's in a RAID 5 array, SWEET transfer rates!!! And run an external NAS box of some sorts for regular backups.
jeevespreston You lose one drive of storage and read/write speed. However, yes it's much safer.
My HDD is making weird sounds all the time and my pc freezes too often when accessing a game off of it, I have my OS on a separate SSD. Is my HDD done, should i get a new one, are there some diagnostics i can run?
Windows shuts off unused drives. So if you start a game after you havent used your HDD the last 10-30 minutes, then it needs to start the HDD again and that needs some seconds, which is absolutely fine. If youre starting the game, close it and open a movie on the same drive and then it still freezes, then it might be a problem. Just use SMART and look at the state of your drive and youll see.
But i have some drivers and stuff on it, that would keep it active, right?
Villee.. Drivers on a second harddrive? how come?
I dont really know, i just installed some not so important drivers on it since my ssd is only 60gb
Villee.. if youre talking about something like logitech gaming software, that isnt actually running all the time and the driver itself indeed is on your system partition.
is there a way to take the platter and rip it like a DVD... so like take the actual disk and just copy it somewhere... and similar question does a harddrive platter fit in a DVD trey
My Acer aspire e-15 went into a startup repair loop and I'm trying to fix with a fresh install of win 8.1 (it came with it, if I'm gonna pirate an os I'm gonna get the one I know works) but it's being super resistant
You forgot the slow boot time. My longest boot time was 10 minutes. Restarted the system several times to make it work
You are a man/woman of patience. When i had windows 7/10 installed on my presario in the past, it took close to an hour and i just gave up on it, without trying to restart it like an idiot.
They were all dead. The final write command was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the mouse button. And then it was all over. To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back six years. Back to the night the channel was created.
Hi. This is great video about HDD but does anybody know how to tell if PSU (power supply) is dying soon? I couldn't find any TH-cam video on that subject. Maybe you know some source of info?
I have VDSL 60mbit/s. But when I try speedtest wireless even if I am near my router I always get around 22-26mbit/s, why? I have the router I got from my ISP, should I get a new router that also have the 5ghz function, would that increase my wireless speed?
Greatful for help!
(Direct wired I always get 60mbit/s)
My primary SSD gets BSOD ~3 times/day.
Failing?
Srsly fcking never buying OCZ again. They send drives without updated firmware even if the drives have been out for like ~4months.
I had similar problems with my NEW rig. Figgin W8 version of BSOD was happening at least three times a day. Turned out was the memory controller and after a BIOS update and a firmware update for the SSD all is good with the world again.
Yeah, my OCZ SSD failed pretty quickly. Awful company.
My Vector failed in 5 months too...
I've got a Patriot 60GB SSD, never had an issue, even though I reinstalled Windows like 15 times on it lol.
I have bought 5 SSDs in my life... the only one that have failed was OCZ. And it failed imediately... it was gone!
Holy shit, Extremely slow transfer rate is one of the symptoms of m internal lappy drive, didnt know until now. Good thing I already bought a new one due to the agony of trying to use it and fix it with conventional software like defragmenting it,etc. Got a faster running drive now. This video is helpful. Thanks.
As of now I'm actually backing up slowly my data from this still working yet super slow drive. Afterall I'm planning to buy an adaptor that will make it an external USB hdd. It will serve as my second backup drive, even though slow, its use as a backup will be great sinc Hard disk sentinel tellsthat the drive still has 1000 days lifetime. My fault though, I keep it running 24/7 for months without turning the laptop off. Odd really, the laptop sustained my immmense usage of it, but the drive did not. It just got slowed though. Felt lucky enough it did not tottally got broke unlike my external hard drive which was thrown by my cousin out of my window on the second floor of the house. I hope the platter is not damaged, so I can still transfer it to a working drive and recover all my 500+ movies there, haix
Man this video was awesome.....
I have been using computers since the early-mid 1980s and I have never had a total hard drive failure, two of my current drives, one in my computer (a waste drive) and one in my NAS have failed in that they either are making unpleasant clicking sounds whenever they get close to being full or driven hard or just report failures to the OS. Both drives have been in that state for several years, and I keep using them, no loss of data so far.
"Damn you phsyics!"
linus is a hacker on the 4chin
Yup
Great video on hard drives.
I travel by car very frequently with my desktop PC for LAN-gaming. Does this affect the lifetime of my hard drives or other components and is there a way for me to minimize the risk of potential damage while traveling?
we entrust our lives in these hard drives and they just die on us without warning
Sad but true
well my PC freezes and Idk what to do... rip
Very well said... thanks for making this video... now i understand why my WD is dead...
what is the best app for it? im watching a hole lot of vids and i cant find any app names for it. my hard drive is dying and i have data and picturs that arnt any where els that are vary spetial to me. does anyone know a good app? pls reply if you can plsplspls:(
OVERWHELMING, oh dear god... I .. I can't take it... Tootlescoopers I need to back up all my po...family... memories.
trust me, you dont wanna know that the hackers are holding your po.. i mean... "family memories" for ransom...
Oh dear god... Without those.... home and public videos... of... family, you know... I might implode... or die.... OR DIE AND IMPLODE O.o
porn family memories?
Just replaced my WD Caviar 250GB hard drive. Made on April 27th, 2007 and died on May 10th 2015. It lasted 8 years & 13 days. It did make an unusual electrical buzzing sound on May 8th 2015 and restarted the computer. Looks like I had one chance to clone it, but I'm cheap :P
mine had 80 XD
also it was a western digital(it has black font so i know if that represents anything) and im getting a new 1TB for buy new build also from WD so exited
Mine died at September 2nd, 2015, made at 2011
Le' Moob Man what company made it
+Joegaming Samsung.
Hello! My laptop (Lenovo u530 touch) was dropped by a friend as school. It seems to be fine, no visible damage or slow transferring of files) However whenever I run intense applications I hear the clicking sound.. the laptop is still fully functional and the app works fine while it is doing that... should I be scared? (Should I back everything up?)
Is there any way to tell how many write cycles my SSD has left? I've had my computer for a few months now and I've stored (insert generic MOBA game title here) on it for fast performance, which has periodic patches that re-works some of the content within the folder on the drive, and I'm worried that with so many patches I could run out of possible writes long before I run out of the 256GBs.
You forgot to mention one other cause of hard drive failure that I just discovered disassembling my gf external HD… *full of cockroaches.*
And cockroach egg cases, and cockroach shit. Oh and it's been left on continuously for almost a decade, including for the last two weeks after it stopped reading and started beeping 🤯
Oh this is going to be a _fun decade._
That's some fucked up shit
How about 100% disk usage what is the problem is the hard drive?
a1qfxs This is happening to me at the moment. Could be a faulty RAM perhaps. Maybe a virus, trojan & similar that's hogging up resources. 🤔
I bought a brand new laptop and it’s doing that idk why
Its fine,its a bug within Windows 10
I've had this, but I ignored it. My pc was incredibly slow sometimes, freezing, and absolutely just non-responding. I have the "This pc needs to be repaired" error, and now I have to get a new hard drive and install windows.
not a bug its caused by windows update , type services in task bar search and search for windows update -proprieties - stop and disable -apply that should fix it
my hard drive is only a couple months old. it is a 3TB sata drive. can't remember company model. it is silent most of the time and my OS is on an SSD. I keep my games and large apps on the HDD. when the system boots or when data is being written to it, such as when the little led that flashes telling you when the drive has data writing to it, it makes a fairely loud rumbling noise very deep but fairely loud to be noticable easily. I believe it runs at 7.2K rpm. do you think it could just me the drive head writing on the disc making the noise or something else? I'm almost certain it is the hard drive as it only happens when my green led lights up when writing data or downloading and it can't be my ssd which is an m.2 Intel 600p model.
okay so i have a 500gb wd black and every 2-15 minutes(varies a lot) it makes a fairly loud click noise. However, its been doing that for months now. Maybe even almost a year. I only use it to store steam games. They all boot up very fast so i haven't noticed a speed decrease. SMART says its 90% for both fitness and performance. Heat isnt an issue it never got above 30c during the summer and now its always in the low 20s. Should i be concerned? Smart also said it has a high write error rate, high sata downshift count and high seek error rate but not anything out of the manufactures specs.
Mine is a 7 year old HDD and showing signs of impending doooom hahahaha
I have a Gateway PC that I got in 2010 and it was working very well for a good few years. But in 2013, I started getting the BSOD. I would normally get it every once in a while but one day, I got the BSOD, and went to restart the computer to get back to my desktop. As soon as it said "Starting Windows", it would go back to the BSOD. I was like "WTF". Restarted the PC, went back to BSOD again. Several restarts later... STILL getting BSOD. I told my dad and he took it to the Geek squad at Best buy. He came home and several weeks later he got a call come come pick up the PC. I was very exited that they had hopefully fix it, but my dad came home and told me the pc... hdd... died. I was sooooo sad. It had like 4 gbts of Ram and 640 gbts of storage on the hdd. It wasn't only the hard drive that failed. I heard it was also a disc controller failure. Luckily, today I got a new Asus PC and it works great. I will always remember you, Gateway PC... (No need to remember the computer, I still have it lol).
your ram's fine dude. it's only the hdd thats gone, you should take it out
OmegaFireGaming Yeah, I'm doing a project, Laptop to desktop.
I feel like this is a modern version of a Grandpa Simpson story that goes nowhere... thumbs up! lol 👍
Mike D xD
Your last line (Luckily, today I got a new Asus PC and it works great. I will always remember you, Gateway PC... (No need to remember the computer, I still have it lol).) sounds so much like me lol! I hate parting with devices I've had for a while even if they no longer function! Wow thanks for making my morning! Have a good one!
This video is still useful after 8 years
So I just got a computer last week (7/14/17) and everything was great, now one week earlier (7/20/17) my hard drive makes a noise when I download things on it, it's not a clicking noise, but it's a recurring clunk almost, and it's fairly loud, should I get a replacement?
I feel like I don’t belong to the world because I kept destroying my SSD Drive so soon for physical trauma. I kept banging too much when rage is coming to me for playing video games. I can’t control from what is wrong with me and I don’t feel I could take care a computer because of my disability.
buy a pc, keep the cabinet in a different room.
I just had my primary drive fail today... it felt like part of me died. lol. Then after getting over that, you have to dish out ~$70-100+ for a new 1TB+ drive, then have to reinstall windows, and all your drivers for everything...then have to deal with losing all your programs, data, games. Ughh. Here is a tip...."bigger" is NOT "better" with hard drives, since hard drives will typically last about the same amount of time big or small. I leave my PC on 24/7, and this 1TB drive last me around 4-5years.
Dang...
Why do you leave your PC on all the time? Surely you don't need it running all the time?
By the time your current disk fails, SSD's should be pretty cheap and have a lot longer life span
A good hard drive will usually last much longer than 4-5 years. In the 15-20 hard drives I've used, none have lasted UNDER 5 years. Actually most of them still work; even ancient 20mb and 100mb (MB, not GB) drives from the 1990s still work!
Also, if you have important data, you should always be backing it up regardless.
Daniel Delos
always bacl stuff up
my maxtor with windows 2000 failed yesterday the heads got stuck to the platters and when it did spin up it had bad bearings and windows blue screened
I have a 2.5 TB hard drive that last nearly 800 days power on time and it still works just got noisier so decided I would upgrade.
Also why would you reinstall winders and drivers? Do you not keep backups? to replace my drive it was a matter of running macrium reflect, telling it which backup to run and leaving it for an hour. Bam it was done, I was back to my stuff with all my files. Keep backups people.
Thank you it was very helpful
We used to run computes 24/7 the older models, the reason was because the chips were mounted in sockets and eventually they would creep or come loose as the computer warmed up and cooled down when turned off, so to prevent we left them on all the time.
My hard drive causes my system to run really slow and it always top 100% disk usage even though its idle.
Brian Kinaman It's happening to me too. But CrystalDiskInfo & HD Tune Pro program says everything is fine. 😶🤔
Its the drive man
Something is wrong with the drive. What i did is backup important stuff in the defective drive and bought a new one. Now its all fine
Brian Kinaman Glad it worked. 😊
Mine has about 60.000 hours. 😮
They're all dead... same as NCIX
gottem
Well…
Somehow linus also has more subscribers than ncix xD
Long live Linus Tech Tips!
THERE DEAD JIM!
my dad had a custom gaming PC built in 2005 made to run The Sims 2 at max settings (lol). The HDD had 250gb, which was pretty good for a HDD back then. I have it in my PC right now (Mostly used for movies, tv shows, general media) and it clicks, but quietly. I'm not sure what to make of it. It has had a memory leak before, but it seemed to fix itself, and other than that it has never misbehaved. Also, WD FTW. 11 Year old hard drive has outlived two of my Seagates.
I have two Samsung 850 evo 250gb drives in raid 0 for my application/OS drive. Magician doesn't recognize the drives in raid 0, how do I monitor the drives health in this situation in windows 10
0:59 heh unnoticed pun alert
Anyone else getting this in 2019?
Yep... my seagate drive craped itself so i was looking at vids on how to fix them.. really not liking my chances.....
@@obamasphere9950 No one asked Nazi, it's been a year. You wouldn't know that.
The only HDD I have that seems to be going through major issues is one in a vintage computer that I have, it has heavy fragmentation and some files are corrupted on it. There's nothing important on there so I'm probably going to run over it with DBAN. I haven't done a SMART test on it yet but I imagine it wouldn't be pretty.
I have several programs to backup my data. I use Norton to back up my files, I also use Nova Backup the same thing. (when I do a property check Nova is always larger. I also manually copy my librairies and finally I use Acronis to clone my disk. All of these jobs are on separate drives. Talk about CYA.
My question is if I have an HD fail will my Acronis be able to put all my sofware back on my computer. Every tech guy I talk to says no.
Appreciate NCIX opinion