Computer Hard Drive Slow Motion

Shot at 30, 600, and 1200 frames per second. Hard drive is Maxtor 40 GB 7200 RPM

Red and White reflective tape was applied to better illustrate the speed of the disk.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• high
• speed
• maxtor
• casio
• ex
• f1
• slo
• mo
• time
• warp
• myth
• busters
• experiment

[MoonEl]

taofledermaus, I'm using (and citing) this video in a powerpoint presentation. Does 600 fps mean the slow mo is 200 times slower than the 30fps? Is the drive searching over the entire platter for requested data? Details about exactly what the drive is doing would help. Thanks alot.

[taofledermaus]

@MoonEl If you would like the original video for your presentation I can yousendit to you if you like. (pm me) The HD is not attached to a computer and is just doing a power-up cycle- a self-test, if that is the correct term.  At 600 fps, it is 20 times slower than 30 fps (20 seconds of video= 1 second of real time)

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

what camera did you use for that? it looks very intresting

[taofledermaus]

I use a Casio EX F1 camera. Thanks for the comment.

[LordShivasServant]

lol This music makes me want to play Half Life

[the731272]

TIME WARP!!

[solarpulsedotnet]

Music from "The Dig"? Extremely random! I recognized it almost immediately.

[wootness3000]

0:09 Derp... DERP DERP DERP DERP

[eltotoX]

I would like to see that Maxtor fail in slow-mo.

[123ADRIAN987]

Why won't you try a hard drive that does work!!!

[PeskySaurus2]

@alifaraz12345 That's why defragmenting is important... your arm doesn't have to search all over the place for your files if they are all close to the edge (or the center? I forget). This won't be important once SSD replaces these though in the future. Right now SSD is stupid expensive.

[pineappleisawesome1]

i don't get how people say this stupid and boring, it's not a bullet, but honestly everything looks cooler slowed way down :)

[picaticatara]

wtf is this shit

[Jackasskids88]

i dont get the point in this