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

Van Svenson

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Published 2017-07-07

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

All Comments (21)

@spatch7414 4 years ago

people, don't open your drives if you want them to run afterwards
@toxiunknown 4 years ago

5:06 this is what you came here for.
@Mindawga 3 years ago

You can't be in two places at once. Hard drive needle: 'Watch me'
@liberusmagnus 3 years ago

3:04 the guy who put the chips on the PCB: i have achieved comedy
@BlueLineofthesky 4 years ago

This is an insane movement. It is a wonder they last so long.
@xrivw 4 years ago

Fun fact: an HDD’s actuator arm can move over 20 times in .02 seconds.
@change5190 4 years ago

Sometimes I wonder how someone invents this.. and how advanced we really are.
@frozantini 3 years ago

"SSD has no moving parts" electrons: am i a joke to you?
@Freak80MC 4 years ago

The head moves so fast that it almost looks fake
@redbluestar1272 4 years ago

So that explains why the sound in my laptop is hissing.
@priestofsyrinx6681 2 years ago

My jaw always drops when I see how these things work. It amazes me that you have a platter spinning at 7200 RPM (up to 15000 back in the day) and the mechanical arm that is reading and writing data with precision. I have a 10-year-old western digital hard drive with over 30000 power-on hours and it still works just fine. Absolutely amazing considering how these things work.
@Sumit-ig3ot 3 years ago

Hard Drive be like: I'm more hard working than your SSDs.
@nethernoah484 6 years ago

Solid State Drive: “I’m not hard!”
@ChrisCanadianHusky 6 years ago

I want to get an HDD just to sharpen my knife on the platter
@bluesailormercury 3 years ago

"The plates show scratches at level 5 with deeper grooves at level 6".
@marcosmedia7463 3 years ago

7:22 My brain when my teacher calls me out when I don't expect it
@clementpoon120 4 years ago

That accuracy and timing of the hdd head is insane.
@ghost-4230 4 years ago

It’s all fun and games until a disk flies out and cuts your neck
@jairoz5412 3 years ago

even though HDD is older and less practical than SSD it's more beautiful to see
@RyanEmeryLovesCars 3 years ago

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