The Geek Group videos are very entertaining as usual. Keep up the good work. It would be nice to convert the computer display signal directly to video instead of filming the monitor
Next death test: Video camera filming itself being tested.
@mrmaigo its because of the way harddrives work (well duh), if you want the specifics you could look up one of their earlier videos (was uploaded like a week ago?) that explains a lot about how harddrives work, its called external hard drive autopsy
@Exarian That's what I was hoping for, too. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the hard drive. Instead, the end was rather prosaic. But, it was an excellent demostration anyway.
@upsilon054 I remember seeing a gif there these guys set a large capacity drive on its side, with the top of the case off, and with the cap taken off. the wafers were spun up then pushed off with a screwdriver from the other end... they rolled across the room like a bunch of wheels at high speed. Maybe geek group should make up for the lack of head crash with that.
the most useful thing a Maxtor did
thewii552 5 months ago in playlist More videos from thegeekgroup
harddrive cpr lol
beagleboyts 11 months ago
I've had mine open for 3 days. course I keep it in an anti state plastic box
PatrynXX 1 year ago
low density HDD i had suceeded this test to win98se!! 300mb WD AT (:
hubzcaps 1 year ago
Heard of open software? This is open hardware...
MadManMarkAu 1 year ago 10
What is causing the fail? The dust that gets on the platters?
Intosia 1 year ago 3
i am curious. the swap space it was attempting to format was sda1.
thats a usb device is it not?
shouldnt you have been attempting to install the swap on the hda or hdb partitions?
mikethemadkiwi 1 year ago
no wonder it failed, its a Crapstor!
cheetawolf 1 year ago 2
The Geek Group videos are very entertaining as usual. Keep up the good work. It would be nice to convert the computer display signal directly to video instead of filming the monitor
Next death test: Video camera filming itself being tested.
cooperbaker 1 year ago
5 blue screen of deaths this morning...
NeeKroVal 1 year ago
Spin up, Spin up, You can do it! XD
sebipayne 1 year ago
make a grinder out of it
Rufe0 1 year ago
it would be awesome if you could use a clean room to convert a regular hard drive to one with a clear top for demo purposes.
mofoq 1 year ago
Why did it die though? I'm not getting that part
mrmaigo 1 year ago
@mrmaigo its because of the way harddrives work (well duh), if you want the specifics you could look up one of their earlier videos (was uploaded like a week ago?) that explains a lot about how harddrives work, its called external hard drive autopsy
Rodsur 1 year ago
@Rodsur I get that the air is full of crap, but in all the drives I've dissected I haven't seen that the tolerances were THAT tight
mrmaigo 1 year ago
Like duh it would have went have gone haywire if you were installin WinVista or XP!
VRtechman 1 year ago
awesome. a head crash would have been epic, though.
Exarian 1 year ago
@Exarian That's what I was hoping for, too. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the hard drive. Instead, the end was rather prosaic. But, it was an excellent demostration anyway.
upsilon054 1 year ago
@upsilon054 I remember seeing a gif there these guys set a large capacity drive on its side, with the top of the case off, and with the cap taken off. the wafers were spun up then pushed off with a screwdriver from the other end... they rolled across the room like a bunch of wheels at high speed. Maybe geek group should make up for the lack of head crash with that.
Exarian 1 year ago
hey for this "cart project" make it so i can follow along i wanna build watever it is :p
and will i need two of the same drives?
TTerboLasers 1 year ago
0:04 haha, ok, youre right Im not...
Streamtronics 1 year ago
Haha, you have the same Torx driver i have, from lowes right? One thing i noticed is that the cap, is impossible to get off once you pop it on.
ausernamenonewants 1 year ago
mabie if you had a class 100 clean room :3
pi55hat 1 year ago