Well aren't you lucky. I was in the market for another four to six 2-3 TB drives. But the stupid floods in Thailand have nearly doubled ALL harddrive prices.
2TB WD drives went from €65 to €165.
The 2 TB Hitachi's I bought last month went from €57 to €122.
I wanted upgrade my file storage pc, but I guess I won't be getting rid of all my old 250, 500gb Seagates just yet. :(
@ElevenColors Yea, turns out nearly all hard-drive manufacturers have their major components manufactured in Thailand. And the floods have hit a lot of their warehouses.
@SmigaOne Aye... For some reason I have this totally unproven belief that factories moved to corners of the earth like Thailand do more good than all the charity thrown at Africa. Factories getting hit and potentially moved out of Thailand make me worry about their future & the cleanup after the waters recede.
Awesome collection of drives there! My roommate got a new computer and it has USB 3.0. Wow is it so much faster. The other day we put DooM on his computer from a flash drive and it was so much faster than on my 2.0. I wonder what the proper way to destroy those drives is in Japan?
@TheItsumaru There's actually a correct procedure for whole computers, a particular organization you're supposed to contact. I forget the name off the top of my head. For individual disks, I have no idea off the top of my head. Good question. Shouldn't be in a landfill.
i remember my dad taking me to school, and we were talking about how the new hard-drive(I think it had around 2gigs of space), was more than we would ever need. LOL... at the time it was a lot for sure.
Those mini shelves coming off the side that your raid 1 was sitting on seems pretty cool. I might have to look into finding some here in the US. Might be great for speakers. =D
@markshmily Few months ago Megwin was talking about accidentally deleting their video stock and data recovery. I think he was throwing out figures around USD$5000
Just like me, lol. I have just as many if not more hard drives floating around as you. Haven't had many die on me lately though. Ever since i moved away from WD and onto Seagate, anyway.
@Hentakkun Funny. I used to care a whole lot more about brands when I was still DIY. Then I blew up a CPU and went BTO. Haven't cared so much since then. :-D
@ElevenColors I usually don't care so much about brands. However with hard discs i have had so many failures that I don't trust WD anymore. Seagate has just been the company I fell back on and i haven't had a reason to use anyone else. I am loyal until there is reason to move elsewhere.
Not in use;...about to be put into a pc of spare parts that will consist of an x38 chipset mobo, E8500 cpu (3ghz dual core), 4gig ram 1066, 2 x HD3870's graphics in crossfire....2 x 500gb & a 1gb primary.
I got rid of a heap of old hard drives ranging from 80-200 gig left over from my pc techie days, along with about 12 monitors & a shitload of random pc parts like a gazillion IDE cables... used to take up 1/2 my office lol
@MicknFumi I don't think anyone in Tokyo has the spare space to keep all that gear around. I used to have old cases but had to get rid of them. Space issues.
WOW!!!! So Many Hard Drives, You Must've Have A Total Of Like At Least 4 Or 6TB To Be Exact I Guess haha
ScorpionSentai3000 3 months ago
@ScorpionSentai3000 I have 8TB in my latest RAID5 box. Not sure about the total of the rest.
ElevenColors 3 months ago
@ElevenColors WOW!!! That Probably Sums It All Up I Guess
ScorpionSentai3000 3 months ago
Well aren't you lucky. I was in the market for another four to six 2-3 TB drives. But the stupid floods in Thailand have nearly doubled ALL harddrive prices.
2TB WD drives went from €65 to €165.
The 2 TB Hitachi's I bought last month went from €57 to €122.
I wanted upgrade my file storage pc, but I guess I won't be getting rid of all my old 250, 500gb Seagates just yet. :(
SmigaOne 3 months ago
@SmigaOne Now that is fascinating. I had no idea the floods had that kind of effect.
ElevenColors 3 months ago
@ElevenColors Yea, turns out nearly all hard-drive manufacturers have their major components manufactured in Thailand. And the floods have hit a lot of their warehouses.
pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Hard-Drive-Prices-Spike-Thailand-Flooding
But we should still be thankful that the only thing we're currently suffering from are rising hdd prices, a lot of people have it a lot worse.
SmigaOne 3 months ago
@SmigaOne Aye... For some reason I have this totally unproven belief that factories moved to corners of the earth like Thailand do more good than all the charity thrown at Africa. Factories getting hit and potentially moved out of Thailand make me worry about their future & the cleanup after the waters recede.
ElevenColors 3 months ago
My sisters boyfriend has this cable he uses to get data off his old broken hard drives he even used it with his ps3.
danifilth363 4 months ago
@danifilth363 Probably similar to what I used when my C drive got sick.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
I love how I can get good motherboards with USB3 built in for only $80 now.
A USB3 card alone used to cost that much, nowadays they cost like $20.
Very fast, says 5 Gbit, but real world performance varies, I get 4 Gbit, that's 500 MBps.
Funny how Apple is the only major computer manufacturer without USB3.
HWGuyEG 4 months ago
Awesome collection of drives there! My roommate got a new computer and it has USB 3.0. Wow is it so much faster. The other day we put DooM on his computer from a flash drive and it was so much faster than on my 2.0. I wonder what the proper way to destroy those drives is in Japan?
TheItsumaru 4 months ago
@TheItsumaru There's actually a correct procedure for whole computers, a particular organization you're supposed to contact. I forget the name off the top of my head. For individual disks, I have no idea off the top of my head. Good question. Shouldn't be in a landfill.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
I havent changed Hard-drives for like 3-4 years :>
Cptraktorn 4 months ago
@Cptraktorn Lucky!
ElevenColors 4 months ago
@Cptraktorn
I need to buy another drive every 2 months.... my desktop has 6, my server has 4 more.
20GB to 2000GB.
HWGuyEG 4 months ago
i remember my dad taking me to school, and we were talking about how the new hard-drive(I think it had around 2gigs of space), was more than we would ever need. LOL... at the time it was a lot for sure.
nt109 4 months ago
@nt109 Heh. Yeah, I worked dialup tech support at an ISP in the late 90s. I remember those days.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Those mini shelves coming off the side that your raid 1 was sitting on seems pretty cool. I might have to look into finding some here in the US. Might be great for speakers. =D
Indeed alot of dicks..thanks for sharing.
How much is data recovery now-a-days?
markshmily 4 months ago
@markshmily Few months ago Megwin was talking about accidentally deleting their video stock and data recovery. I think he was throwing out figures around USD$5000
ElevenColors 4 months ago
hahaha only you can end a video talking about scanning asses like that!
By the way If you didn't make videos talking about raid1 and so on I would have not have a clue about them maybe wouldn't have!
APOKALYPSE34 4 months ago
@APOKALYPSE34 Glad to present a chance for folks to learn.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Just like me, lol. I have just as many if not more hard drives floating around as you. Haven't had many die on me lately though. Ever since i moved away from WD and onto Seagate, anyway.
Hentakkun 4 months ago
@Hentakkun Funny. I used to care a whole lot more about brands when I was still DIY. Then I blew up a CPU and went BTO. Haven't cared so much since then. :-D
ElevenColors 4 months ago
@ElevenColors I usually don't care so much about brands. However with hard discs i have had so many failures that I don't trust WD anymore. Seagate has just been the company I fell back on and i haven't had a reason to use anyone else. I am loyal until there is reason to move elsewhere.
Hentakkun 4 months ago
@Hentakkun Hmmm. Will bear in mind. Thx.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
1 x 500gb primary
2 x 2TB raid 1
2 x 600gb external
1 x 500gb external
Not in use;...about to be put into a pc of spare parts that will consist of an x38 chipset mobo, E8500 cpu (3ghz dual core), 4gig ram 1066, 2 x HD3870's graphics in crossfire....2 x 500gb & a 1gb primary.
I got rid of a heap of old hard drives ranging from 80-200 gig left over from my pc techie days, along with about 12 monitors & a shitload of random pc parts like a gazillion IDE cables... used to take up 1/2 my office lol
MicknFumi 4 months ago
@MicknFumi I don't think anyone in Tokyo has the spare space to keep all that gear around. I used to have old cases but had to get rid of them. Space issues.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Why so many? o.o
MurdocLC 4 months ago
@MurdocLC They're from every computer I've owned since moving to Tokyo. They accumulate.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
@ElevenColors Daim. I'm younger than you but I've only had 5 computers my whole life if you count the Commodore 64/Amiga.
MurdocLC 4 months ago
@MurdocLC One of my younger brothers had an Amiga. Had some fun games.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Fuckin drives man. Western Digital, I will curse your name in Hell.
HotPocketEXE 4 months ago 3
@HotPocketEXE Tried to imagine being in Hell and cursing Western Digital. LOL. :-D
ElevenColors 4 months ago
I have a love/hate relationship with RAIDs.
wheelieshinobi84 4 months ago
@wheelieshinobi84 Haven't had a raid screw up yet, but aye, every layer of complexity is indeed a danger.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Intel requested ass scans for interns? My, oh the times have changed! lol
Thesmitster 4 months ago
@Thesmitster Was a weekend . I was bored. 1994, scanners were a big deal. This was long before USB.
ElevenColors 4 months ago
Having too many is better than not enough lol
InsaneVender 4 months ago
@InsaneVender damn right.
ElevenColors 4 months ago