Excellent video, but there were no other restore points to choose from, not even Windows automatic restore points...

Great video. Short and to the point and informative!

10 years later and this video is STILL helpful and worked like a charm. Thanks man.

Welcome back!!!

So you have to disassemble it all to clean? I was hoping i could leave it installed and spray it clean with canned air...not possible? Thank you

Tools that output SSD's life expectancy are wildly unreliable -- and in the user's favor. All SSDs are given a TBW (terabytes written) value, by the manufacturer. The manufacturer warranties your SSD to not fail, before you have written that amount of data to the SSD (or the X number of years, whichever comes first). The TBW value given to an SSD will vary from model to model. Tools, such as Samsung's Magician, and the Windows tool demonstrated by our host, read the TBW value that is stored on the SSD. The SSD also maintains a record of how many bytes have been written to it. So SSD tools simply compare the SSD TBW figure that was provided by the manufacturer to the number of bytes its own recording keeping has logged. So let's say that your SSD has a 1200 TBW value. When you have written 600 TB to the drive, SSD tools will show that you have 50% life expectancy remaining. But that is wildly inaccurate. Why? Your SSD will last far beyond the 1200 TBW figure. Your SSD will not die, freeze up, or act up, or slow down, etc, when you reach 1200 TBW. This was put to the test with Chia crypt-o mining. That process requires a huge partition, to create 100+ GB size files. The file creation process writes over 1 TB of data, for each file created. Unless you have 256+ GB of RAM, you will use an SSD for the creation process. The latter is what 90%+ of Chia miners did. If you check the Chia forums, you will see that no one has reported that they wore out their SSD, and countless people have been writing to their SSD 24/7/365 for 3+ years. You will likely get 10x the TBW value, or more, before your SSD will have problems. For typical day-to-day use, your SSD will out live you, your child, your grandchild, and so on. Even if you do lots of video rendering, your SSD will still outlive you. The only way to kill your SSD is to either write to it, non-stop, for many years (at least 3), or to burn it out from heat (in case you write to it heavily with no cooling (and your SSD keeps a log of its temperature, so the manufacturer has an excuse to not honor the warranty)). So why do manufacturers use a TBW value that is clearly low? 1) When they started manufacturing SSDs, they could not know for sure how much data could be written to it. They probably had a rough idea. But the only way to know for sure would be for them to write to it for years. Well, they are not going to hold off on selling their product for years. So they had to come up with a TBW number, without really knowing what that number should be. But #2, and especially #3, below, is nefarious. 2) By rating, for example, an SSD's TBW value at 1200, the manufacturer can deny you a warranty claim if you exceeded 1200 TBW. Even though that SSD could handle 12,000 TBW, the manufacturer will simply deny your warranty claim. Your SSD could die, having nothing to do with you exceeding 1200 TBW, and they will simply not honor your claim. 3) People use a tool and see that their SSD is down to 20% (or whatever). They get worried, or feel uncomfortable, and so they go out an purchase another SSD that they did not need. If they had not seen 20% remaining, they would not have wasted money on a new SSD. So a low TBW value boosts sales. If your SSD fails, it is not going to be due to writing too much data to it. If it fails, it will be due to heat, or a power surge, or a manufacturing defect. Tools that show you your SSD's statistics should be used out of curiosity, and to know if you are about to end your warranty. Do no use such tools to determine the health of your SSD.

i'll be using W10 as long as I havr this Gaming PC I have now, it's pretty good so hopes I can use it until 2027-2028+ Cuz I don't wanna reinstall a fresh windows 11, cuz I using the free version windows 10.

This is the most detailed and relaxing video on a pc build i have ever experienced....Thank you so much.!

thank you so much

This dude needs to make videos again

Thank you sir!

Glad to see you back and thank you for the above post, very helpful

It sucked having to put your DVD or cd rom into your computer every time you wanted to play a specific game. I always worried about scuffing up the disks of my favorite games.

my hdd health is 13 % !!!!!!!!!!!!! and when i hold it i hear sand sound from it !!

Hi Dave. Very good video. Please keep going and make us more!

I only needed one reason. My 16-year-old Windows 10 system (wasn't always a Win10, but that's another story) died violently, which multiple events in the system event log. Things like controller errors, apparent head touches, and my main system fan died. The stores aren't selling Win10 unless you have some clout. But beware of the automatic enablement of Bitlocker. THAT is a potential nightmare - DON'T lose your key because you won't be able to have someone recover a dying disk.

Still have games on cd so a cd drive is needed.

You forgot about power requirements.

You probably should have mentioned that Windows 10 doesn’t even include DVD-Video capabilities out of the box! Say hello to a $15 addon on instead! Or just use something like VLC…

HDDs are still meaningful. I had one machine with two HDDs that lasted 13 years. My next machine with an HDD lasted 16 years. By comparison, the SSD died within about 5 years. The speed factor is impressive, sure, but reliability is not a trivial requirement. Silent hard drives? My game is banging away, game sprites are screaming, and game bombs are going off in my headphones. What disk noise was that? Your point about laptops and fragility is valid.

thank you sir

I was planning to continue on Win10 - until my Win10 box started throwing disk controller and disk surface fault errors. Since it was over 15 years old at the time, though it performed pretty well for a long time, it was time to face facts. So my workaround was "buy a new computer" and therefore I'm on Win11 anyway. Wasn't my plan, but what's that old saying about "best laid plans"?

Great video i clicked on check for updates and windows 11 is ready to install......Thank you!!

Simple, Install Linux!

Starting to learn linux just for this reason.

After trying Windows 11 on my laptop and really not liking it I threw Mint on it, that was about a year ago. Finally ripped the band aid off and moved my main desktop over to Pop OS and while not painless I've gotten most of my games to work with proton (I don't play many that use anti cheat) and have found replacement apps for most of the things I need that I wasn't already using something cross platform/open source for. I've been using Windows since 95a and work with any number of OS's, there is good and bad to all of them but I'm much happier now that I only have to deal with Windows 11 in small doses when I need to do something on the mini PC I got to run Windows 11 on.

Linux! What else?

Migrate to Windows 10 LTSC (supported to 2035)

Thanx for th video. I run an old PC here with an Intel i5 2500 CPU , 16 Gig of RAM and SSD with Win 11 fine for the past 3 years. It still dual boots to Win 10 but it works way better on Win 11. If Microsloth decide to kill the updates for this PC I'll go to Linux Mint that I have on another PC.

I have a computer still running windows 7. Works ok

Get a good antivirus.

Time to move to linux, w11 is so bad it is unusable for me

Windows 11 is utter crap! I consider it malware with spyware galore. That reflects more on the strategic decisions than the developers. Stuff micro$oft!

thanks sir

Thanks very much for sharing this vital information!

diskdrive - Alias not found - windows check disk found no errors - sfccannow fixed some errors - Crystdiskinfo says Good 51% health on SSD all blue dots ~ 2100 power on count

Windows 10 LTSC 2019 supports ends February 2029

Windows 11! Duh!

Strait up ... Get your system stable ... use "Windows Update Blocker" (do a search) ... and you can continue to use Win10 just like nothing happened, YEARS beyond its end of support date. It will be no more vulnerable than it is today and you can still update drivers and application software manually. I ran windows 7 for nearly a decade with no anti-virus, no restore points, no swap files, no hibernation, and no updates ... and, guess what? It just worked. All that time not one single problem. If it were not for a hardware failure bringing new computers that won't boot on win7, I would still be using it today. I currently run windows 10 in the same state... with all the telemetry also defeated. So far I haven't had a problem that isn't my own fault while learning how to tweak things up. Hardware permitting, I plan to still be using Win10 way beyond 2030.

Yeah. I do need the CD/DVD drive, especially for being an online dj. I still purchase media.

How can I rip CDs into iTunes without an optical drive. Anyone who thinks physical media is unnecessary is a fool.

Its appalling that MS are forcing people to buy new computers when theirs are not broken, forcing people to throw healthy equipment into landfill. How come legislators in the US and EU havent jumped onto this practise and and told MS to only bring out software that can be run on equipment from say the last 10 years. I believe MS are i operating a cartel with INTEL and AMD to make sure people keep buying new equipment! Wrong, wrong, wrong

Interestingly the hospital I work at is still putting new Windows 7 machines into production and had to reimage quite a few machines after they were taken down by CrowdStrike.

Fail and ignorance for not including the best option. Buy a cheap miniPC ($100-140) and run Linux ALONGSIDE your Lose 10 PC. Modern monitors support two computers at once, and it's easy to switch between inputs. Use Lose 10 for that software, and Linux for web browsing. With two PCs on your desk in arm's reach, moving files is easy.

By then it will be windows 13 already 😂😂😂😂

Before I start watching let me predict two points: 1) You can just continue to use Win-10 and it will keep working 2) You can switch to Linux such as Linux Mint and carry on with your life. Let me see how I did.

Just move to Linux, best option. AS suggested in this video -- just be a cautious user and choose VERY carefully if you add a security protection package. I agree with @johnjakson444 comment -- McAfee, Norton, and Kaspersky are not so good and be leary of packages that are automatically downloaded for sites.

good, same situation as my Win7 desktops, just keep them off the web and using something else for the web goodness no, no one should be using McAfee, Norton or Kaspersky

Glad to see you back with another video

Hes back!