Hard Drive Torture - ExcelStor 40gb

[@kattn01]

Poor little HDD, been working hard all his life, just to be put on display and ridiculed before he meets his terrible demise.

[@AiOinc1]

Same a little bit.

[@thedogememesproductions6354]

Harddrive benn compromised

[@chrisjayr]

Alot of people do this to old HDD, especially to destroy any extremely personal data that may be on the drive. Banks, DMV's once the files been copied over, and such.

[@hellraiser3448]

😂😂😂

[@momiswatchingyou2488]

True. R.I.P HDD

[@Franksey180]

A classic Aussie50 video. RIP, you will be missed.

[@friendlyfiregaming4601]

Well, thats one way to burn a disc...

[@silent7563]

FriendlyFireGaming AHAHAHA

[@Talondrone]

i see what you did there!

[@jackmcdonald8355]

"I think I pissed it off"

[@chylimzbydzi]

The poor thing just trying to do its job... Makes me sad.

[@gabrielvieira6529]

Michał Chyliński true

[@TheTechMan5270]

True

[@mrguy9876]

same here

[@evandernilsen2579]

its fine if the drive is allready broken but why do it with a working hard drive?

[@numberwhite7082]

@@evandernilsen2579 Its 40gb...

[@Aussie50]

I can sorta understand that, my first HDD was a used 1gb Maxtor that I paid $100 for, lasted a long time but I still used 200mb drives as backups. but at the end of the day I cannot release many drives due to data security reasons, or its just not economical to ship them anywhere.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

get dban

[@MetallicBlade]

I like the 'improved' spin-up sound that it makes at 5:35.

[@gelo1238]

And automatic grinder after that hah RIP Aussie

[@smallenginedude71]

formatting hard drive aussie50 style!

[@DrewsLair]

"That almost sounds better than dubstep"

[@lukantas]

*Proceeds to turn on the flamethrower*

[@DrewsLair]

@@lukantas Yoo i forgot about this comment, this guy had great content, I heard he passed, such a loss.

[@lukantas]

@@DrewsLair Oh did you know him irl?

[@fssjkatana]

How to destroy your porn collection

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

a hard drive is the only case where torture will not take the information out

[@happytorrentt4500]

1000 degree glowing red hot hard drive? Think you could start a new trend?

[@Aussie50]

yes, but that does not mean I have the same standards, or time on my hands to Deban them and advertise them for sale (who would pay $50 for a 100gb hdd?)

[@tafsirnahian669]

:( you are dead

[@network_king]

looks like you made the first heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard drive. LOL

[@Lachlant1984]

I wonder how fast the motor would spin if you took the platters off it before switching the hard drive on? I mean with the platters mounted they spin very quickly. but imagine how fast the motor would spin without them.

[@drakethedragon457]

'Missing Sector' Yeah i think more than a 'Missing sector' with this hard drive

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

thats one way to make sure the data isnt retrieveable

[@Aussie50]

data security reasons, cannot release it. only large drives (over 250gb) are worth Debaning/Formatting to DOD standard then selling (gotta get somthing for all that time) smaller drives are scrap.

[@mixedboi]

Have you tried formatting it to ntfs?

[@HighTreason610]

Ah, so that's what the inside of those ExcelStor drives is like, that didn't stand up too badly considering it likely was a Hitachi drive, I remember the more squared off design the company offered (back when 10Gb was large) used to have "Conner Tech" printed on the underside, which basically meant Seagate built those ones, thus I suspect they were just rebadged drives.

[@RODALCO2007]

That disc motor put up a good fight. Nice meltdown.

[@HDXFH]

A shattered disk needs a damn good File Defragmenter to clean up too

[@luminumlx2604]

What happens if i put a hard drive platton on a disk drive? Or a CD on a hard drive?

[@ninjafuzz5438]

wtf dude, people in Africa would've eaten that hard drive

[@thedogememesproductions6354]

ninjafuzz bro that SHIT IS FUCKIN OLD

[@emirhanozturk4042]

@@thedogememesproductions6354jesus are you juat wtf

[@evandernilsen2579]

the same can you say with the food you are gonna throw away until the food began to rotten.

[@odinhutson4229]

Glass is harder than metal thats why typically they should last longer but they are weaker to drops

[@sparkie5571]

it prob cost more to turn the torch on then how much it cost to buy the hard drive :p

[@chrispenning6094]

I think I actually felt sorry for it. Kind of like watching WALL.E.

[@jbmorris2893]

Same here

[@AiOinc1]

It's a piece of equipment, don't feel too sorry.

[@cdos9186]

More like a waste of working equipment!

[@uc8tv]

@@cdos9186 I agree.

[@mjyanimations1062]

Some hdd are really sensitive and will not run if anything is wrong with the arm or the read head or the disk

[@francistheodorecatte]

I actually have several Excel Stor hard drives. I've kept them around because they're /really really/ heavy for their size, which surprised me

[@Aussie50]

what the heck is YT up too?, I hope thats my advertisement at the start, not one that they put up because they think its copyright content

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

Yep, I was on a Pentium 4 two weeks ago, I don't want to trash the old CPU, it brings me back memories!

[@Maestro_V1]

hello, my is not spinning but i have some old pics i there.. Have you got any suggestions how to recover or start spinning :) thanks

[@Lethaltail]

The opposite happened to me recently, What looked like a cute little metal platter shattered and almost embedded bits of itself in my foot.

[@TCGProductions03]

Did you really send it back?

[@Tjousk]

Would be rather difficult to recover any data from that.

[@aleksbajic8917]

4:45 how is it still going???

[@windowsfan95]

was the Harddisk broken?

[@FoxxyHater]

He bought the drive, he can do whatever he wants with it. A 40GB IDE drive is virtually worthless. I have about 20+ drives >80GB just sitting around because they are either too small to usefull, or too slow/inefficient to be worth my time. a 1TB can be bought for $80, That's why i have 9 of them.

[@dankerthanclanker]

When you torched the arm for the final time, I dunno why, but I was expecting it to fail around as if it was trying to say "help me, help me!"

[@iLife64]

Did you get it refurbished?

[@tessmaddocks8457]

Hi Ed, could you do a tutorial on fixing the coin tray in a Honda CRV 2000?.. mine has fallen out, clip and all.

[@Aussie50]

eh mine is in a million bits LOL, the plastics broke up and are not worth fixing

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

btw that hard drive isn't glass, the last series of deskstars to use glass were the 120GXP's. OH and it has the scratch of death. Very known for these. the 180 GXP series and after were all metal.

[@LadyMoonstar6601]

I love those vids they are super cool :) do you not care for deskstars

[@mitchellzurick4220]

"I wanna kill you with fire while you are still working." lolol

[@indask8]

I've tried this method to securely format my hard drive but now it doesn't work anymore -_- HELP HELP.

[@sbalogh53]

Take it to a disk recovery place and see what they can get back from the damaged drive. You should have at least grabbed the magnets assuming you did not demagnetise them with all that heat.

[@adam7868]

I tried running the motor on 3phase square wave bit it kept dying at high frequency

[@Agg92438]

I don't think the factory would fix it for you if they found out you purposely put a torch to it :/

[@Aussie50]

you'll find my head moves when the camera doesn't, its not a good idea!

[@Aussie50]

it does not come up with a appeal form :(, i would have to re-upload with a different title and tags (just omit Excel)

[@Documenting_Life_8619]

You was literally making hardcore kicks with that hdd 😂

[@1sonyzz]

in that place where hold actuator arm there is small ammount of rich metal

[@knoxe1]

i love your videos there fun to watch and i am going to keep watching

[@ScottieNiven]

Because the motor is speed controlled by the PCB with no platters the motor will reach its normal spinning speed.

[@TvshkaHumma]

All hard drive platters are metal, as far as I'm aware anyway .

[@KaienSander10Official]

2:44 hard disk is having a Fucking seizure XD

[@renton9999]

omg, you turned in into a dot matrix printer!

[@BoomBoxDeluxe]

Ah, you'll be surprised! Chances are, the motor wouldn't go that fast at all, or it would just run at the same speed. There may be a possibility that the motor uses the platter similar to a flywheel....it can 'store energy' in it to build up its speed. So, on that note, if I had to take a guess, the motor would either reach its top speed sooner without the platter, due to the platter not being there which ordinarily causes air resistance, or maybe it'll even spin slower than normal. -BBD.

[@BrackenDawson]

Pretty sure that pad was the air filter from the end of that channel on the far side of the head.

[@comradeturtle9370]

Imagine that error on the screen: Big burn read/write error.Please buy a new HDD.

[@Khyree_Holmes]

Now, a fun way to prevent someone from accessing your data - very satisfying!

[@gaijin2162]

1000°C glowing Hard Drive Disk vs Surviving for its life

[@BoomBoxDeluxe]

This one would've been interesting to see lighter fluid put on the disk, ignited & then spun-up. Flame-Spin hard drive. :-D Hot data! Thanxx for showing, -BoomBoxDeluxe.

[@thetupolevtu-1602]

When I was a kid I had hard drives in my basement and I played with them and I built a little box thing using the hard drives and the hard drive(s) usually fell when I was making the roof

[@stonino3002]

My pc spec is pentium 4 without gfx card 3gb ram and 70gb Hdd suck right

[@redneckbryon]

You should do that to a hard drive in a computet well it's still running.

[@yesschembri]

Would be awesome if you could have a working hard drive connected to a pc, and undo the hdd case while running :) see if it crashes immediately

[@krisbrech]

if it wont break just make sure you have a blow torch or somthing to heat it up

[@sorantheskysky1394]

2:40 it got mad at you

[@kizza231188]

It's because the Artist "Excel" has music that sounds pretty similar to noise, maybe YT's software compared the dying hardrive sounds with their music and decided a match!

[@executive9893]

ExcelStor always worked really well for me, 15 years no problem.

[@jamesb1221222]

I lost my storage drive last year. Instead of recycling it, I did the same exact thing you just did. I kept the melted remains of the platter as a momento.

[@Mathmos252]

BUT WHYYYY

[@RootedHat]

I wanna buy you like a head camera-helmet thingy, so you can record videos and use your two hands

[@gamiwv]

I'm wondering what drugs you get.

[@aerowaryt2728]

5:53 electric arcs

[@mjyanimations1062]

Reverb? You broke the tag and label. Warranty void

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

in the words of Lady Cassandra, "what was that old Earth saying? burn, baby, burn."

[@nicolas_h9090]

DubStor?

[@65bug519]

file not found.

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

I use one two 40 GB HDD's because i can't afford a larger one, btw that is a good HDD, is the only one that is running without SMART alerts after 6 years of service

[@joeyf504327]

hmmm still not sure if its glass or aluminum lol

[@Aussie50]

I honestly don't know why I keep your sorry ass around here

[@ellathedog1370]

You are the HowToBasic at technology.

[@Guineh76]

I'd be interested to see what the SMART stats say....

[@nomi4905]

Well that HDD can never say "I'll be back" lol

[@cpavlidi]

Hey man, you are the Hard Disk Hannibal Lecter guy !!!

[@Aussie50]

I've got a whole load more "Carbon Terrorism" to do with the remainder of these drives!

[@tt2468]

I actually felt sad for it as the head tried to find its home :(

[@TheGamerWithMore]

Now I know where to send my dying HDDs to.

[@edwinbeck456]

Omg I died on, "that almost sounds better than dubstep"

[@EastAngliaUK]

I guess you could say that hard drive is well burnt

[@JackAnyon]

2:57 "Oops I did it again"... Britney?

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

I have two 40 GB hard drive, I use it for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and it has 16 GB of free space, the other is exclusively for data storing. I want to let you know that I'm a 16 year old student that can't afford better things

[@martinwalters1954]

Beavis and Butthead must be jealous.

[@lnro4494]

Hey, last time i saw ur latest vid about google sh*t, Nice damn place u got dere. Tech paradise.

[@peterwillymcjohnsonator7837]

when you first stopped it and it spun up again, it did the krr krr krr krr which was common on the ones with glass.. (60,75,and 120GXP). just means it hit a bad sector. I have had a bunch of these drives do the same thing, die with the scratch of death and then the click of death. It's a wonder why IBM sold their division to HGST... 15% failure rate is not acceptable for a hd company.

[@EricssonXL]

That head was smart, it tried to get fire out by spinning. MOVE, STOP, and MOVE

[@moe67able]

I think it looks freaking awesome to see a hard drive get tortured

[@nestea322]

Cooking you data?

[@markitzero12]

Mainly all Hard Disks you Metal platters but I have never seen glass Hard drive platter, and in the Video you were shaving off the magnetic material lol. I once turned a old Seagate Hard Drive into a incense burner holder and the platters into Cup Coasters.