THIS VIDEO coupled with the other one about how to make a recovery drive using a memory stick has been an absolute gem of a learning lesson. thank you Dave. appreciate your hard work.
@basselessam48132 жыл бұрын
Can you explain to me what is the difference?
@ZER0VII Жыл бұрын
@@basselessam4813 basically a usb recovery drive helps to recover your pc from any problems it has usually by reinstalling windows if it doesn't turn on at all and a system image is whats going to restore all the data you once had on your pc in otherwords its like a snapshot in time of everything you had on your computer on the day you did the system image backup
@realperson67132 жыл бұрын
After a complete weekend lost watching all the present content on KZbin about recovery drive, repair disc, system image, file history, set up backup, system restore, and so many other intertwined terms that work combined or sometimes substitute one another (yeah, after a complete weekend all these things are not completely clear to me) I'd just like to express how your videos are the best ones on these matters. The most clear in my opinion. Thanks for making them so complete. I'm sure that if I could have an afternoon with you I would leave as an expert on this subject, you know everything. The completeness on the theme, the clarity on the explanations, the appropriate editions for the understanding of the common noob like me. Thanks a lot. I just would like if you had videos on all the doubts I have, like the counterparts of all the mentions I did for Win7 and linux. But for what you offered in your channel so far, I have nothing but to thank you a lot!!!!!!!!
@patmanning43513 жыл бұрын
You have been an absolute lifesaver with this tutorial! Thank you! For your recovery usb drive and wipe and reset tutorials too! I have to send my HP Spectre 360 back to the retailer for investigation, as one of the thunderbolt USB ports has failed, and it appears to heat up quite quickly too, during ordinary usage. They told me I had to send it back wiped, just in case! I was panicking big time, until I found your amazing tutorials and advice. So simple and straightforward. What more can I say. As a 67 year old woman from the UK, who likes to think she’s more than a little up there, technically minded, and up for a challenge, it truly was a blessing in disguise!
@jaimiecross27443 жыл бұрын
I just bought a new laptop and looked for videos on how to make a system image and a windows recovery drive. Your videos are the clearest and easiest to use i found. Thanks so much.
@CrownK1005 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Clear and concise, straight to the point. Great tutorial!
@Keyn0rHaX4 жыл бұрын
Just a tip, you can hold your left shift key and click on restart and it will make your computer reboot into the recovery environment :) You can do this instead of turning it off 3 times.
@robri3 жыл бұрын
Also you could try. Turn off your computer. Insert the USB with the Image on it. On your keyboard press and hold down ALT & F10 at the same time, then turn on your computer. This should work for Recovery USB also
@boyka18275 жыл бұрын
Nice video buddy. Extremely helpful and easy to understand. I don't know why is it so hard for other people to explain in their video of "what is the system image". Most of the videos are junk.
@randallroberts28824 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, thank you for your KZbin "How to Make a System Image backup" It was a life saver. Cheers Mate
@rubyzeng90172 жыл бұрын
Here I made a system image with aomei and restore to another pc, worked well.
@drmikeosgood4 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave; I found your videos and boy they're a real help to unscrambled O S systems even to 76-year-olds that did not have pcs even in school and very little at work before retirement. Thanks a really big bunch!!
@unknownmemory85273 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this beautiful guide. It took me a total of 35 minutes to completed a "System Image backup" with a storage size of around 200 GB.
@mohsinfareed17974 жыл бұрын
Great tutorials as usual. Thanks for all the effort. All your tutorials are easy to follow well explained and very informative.
@judykettenhofen1700 Жыл бұрын
Yes, years ago, w/win8, my drive would lose its mind; repair wouldn't work, but I could get into the "advanced options" and restore the system image backups I made. I got used to doing this on a regular basis. It HAS been a long time. Originally, I had to start from scratch and re-install updates'n'things. Later, I discovered I could make a system image that included installed programs, etc. Back then, I could make incremental system image backups so it was pretty slick. Thanks for the advice about using a quality usb drive for the recover drive in your prior video.
@cpat63894 жыл бұрын
Great video. I’ve had the unfortunate experience of my hard drive completely crashing without a recovery disk. Super helpful in the event this happens again.
@ronbennett55912 ай бұрын
Just used this now in 2024 ... brilliant thank you so much
@ash135503 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, an FYI, I used your video and backed up my windows 11 today. It did exact job as win10. Thanks a lot buddy, you are the best!
@Meatcrob14 жыл бұрын
Great explanation. Just had a complete catastrophe from a botched windows update. I lost all of my data and will not be making the same mistake again. Now that I have my computer up and running again after formatting both my hard drives and using a USB drive to boot from and install windows on my main drive I will be making a system image as shown in this video. Very clear and easy instructions thank you!
@ricmiranda37574 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dave, it was very informative on how to look after all the different ways of doing a good backup, I really needed to know earlier when i lost all my data BUT now i have it all backed up. Thanks again.
@DavesTechRescue4 жыл бұрын
Sorry you lost your data, but glad the video was helpful
@christslove79864 жыл бұрын
Very well done. I never understood the new way that Windows does backup since they moved away from NT Backup after XP/2003 Server. You remedied that in this and your last videos like no one ever ever been able to or documented well enough to. I like the file versioning better from before too, although at least that change they can make an argument for. Now that I understand it, I know that I'm not missing anything, and wouldn't consider using it. With ShadowProtect and Macrium Reflect, you can easily do automated continuous incrementals, (Synthetic Full Backups) that can give you 15 minute snapshots. You can browse or roll back and entire computer to a consistent point in time from minutes ago to months ago. You can also have them do periodic full images, all unattended. Moreover, you may want a copy of your old machine for software, operating system, or any other reason in the future. You can turn their backups into virtual machines and boot them on completely dissimilar hardware, and move them back in minutes. I've had to do that before with a server at a factory and they ran on it for 4 days and didn't notice any difference in performance or any other aspect. (Which you can do with Windows 10 images as well) Health checks are done automatically. The one that makes the most sense for home use is Macrium, while I tend to use ShadowProtect on servers. Macrium is $70 a license and $140 for 3. The free version will do about everything the pay-for version will except Synthetic Full Backups. It even makes it easy to restore from larger to smaller partitions.
@hunterjoy43462 жыл бұрын
Thank you very informative, I backup with Aomei which is a easy tool for me
@keyiwan59472 жыл бұрын
What to do when I have no system back up and cannot boot
@adunford26644 жыл бұрын
Thanks, it was a good reminder to complete this before I need it. Very clear and easy to follow. To improve further it might help if the backing music is dropped, it allows us to focus on your instructions.
@adrianb8517 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU DAVE , was my first experience to install the windows 10 to a new ssd hard drive ,{into a old computer with windows 7 and a failing old hard disk drive }, everything was perfect THANKS to all your instructions clear and to the point . All our thanks and appreciations !
@ivangutowski4 жыл бұрын
Good evening Dave, I tried to find a way to direct message you to say thank you, but was unable to. You helped me in a very unconventional way. I have been spending many, many hours trying to get an SSD installed on a dell optiplex with the OS cloned from a HDD. I tried so many programs, clonezilla, acronis, shadow mask and many more. Every single one even the standard windows 10 loader had issues getting the installer and hardware to work and boot - Dell love to have their own non-standard peripherals and Bios. After watching your video I was able to 'Backup' a system image of the HDD and use the windows restore to 'restore' the backup onto the new SSD - IT literally took 15 minuets ! I am so happy, I thought the SSD had died and that machine for my workshop would have to run from a HDD forever. Thank you again, your videos at first were a little basic for me but I was not too familiar with the image backups. Thank you again and I will now setup pooled drives and have all my family's machines using the built in windows 10 backup with the occasional image backup. Thank you so much Dave !
@DavesTechRescue4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad to hear my video helped :)
@MacherTV4 жыл бұрын
These backup videos of yours are very helpful. Because backup isn't the sexiest topic I guess, there aren't that many good videos out there, but it is very important and you make a great job explaining this. Well done sir. Keep up the great work. Subscribed :)
@DavesTechRescue4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much 😁
@danielfennock37072 жыл бұрын
This is a useful way but if you have no system restore point you have to turn to aomei to do this.
@MrPatdeeee2 жыл бұрын
Well FINALLY. For I have been trying to recover a FULL computer; after the internal HDD failed. And I have a "backed up" HDD; with even a "computer" Image and a "Shadow Copy" plus every Files on the old HDD. But NO one could tell me how to recover my computer; and told me only how they recover files. That will NOT fill my wants.! Yet I have backed up my computer EVERY night; for years; with "ALL" things backed up. But I did not know what to do; when my internal HDD failed. Not even Microsoft could tell me. Sad, but OH so true. And you told us that in a short time. WOW!. Thank you kind Sir for that. Awesome!
@rebeccalynn30922 жыл бұрын
Years ago, my laptop suddenly refused to load windows. I bought a disc containing Ubuntu and used it, but I kept losing my desktop. It seemed like a Unity issue, so I went to Linux Mint. Mint extended the life of my laptop for the next five years. I finally got a new laptop last year, and I'm afraid of it happening again. Thank you for showing us how to back it up. I have some DVDs here for a recovery disc, plus a thumb drive.
@Singading232 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. My computer crashed and it took hours upon hours to get it up again. Wish I had made a recovery disc and watched your wonderful videos. I made a recovery USB to use if my computer crashes in the future.
@lederereddy3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea which external hard drive to choose. I just looked for a solid-state external hard drive and Seagate had excellent reviews, so I bought one. I finally got around to using it. But today, I decided to create a system image. So, I closed everything and restarted. Then I cleaned my PC using CleanMyPC, then restarted again. Cleaning, I noticed, took 9 seconds off the restart time. Down from 31 seconds to 22 seconds. Which is only up 7 seconds from the original start-up time. But I had fewer apps, etc... Anyway, I am happy to see you recommend the Seagate HD I bought and I'll be even happier if, by the time I finish watching this video, I will learn how to save and make use of this specific system image. Especially if it can undo all the bs that happens after a windows update! What's curious to me is, I bought this old computer in late 2018, or early 2019 at the latest and it only took 15 or 20 minutes to create a system image. But maybe that's because I don't have video games on this computer? I am confident everything went well because it did say the system image had completed successfully. A question I have is what do the scheduled backups do to the system image? Nothing, right? They are two separate processes, right? They save all the new photos, apps, etc, correct? And the system image restores the computer's functionality... So if when I restore the system, will I still retain all the new things I added since I created the image? Dave? Or anyone who might know?
@Vicky-zd3uv2 жыл бұрын
I made image backup with aomei, it's really convenient.
@frankspencer44553 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the useful vids you made explaining backups. I wrote all your instructions and will do both, regular manual backups and create a system image with the recovery disc. Appreciate your time.
@ado7343 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to make this video,nicely explained and at A pace where we can take take alot of info in ,calm and steady the way to go ,i just liked and subbed
@henryroif85374 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, 2 important comments. 1.- You can recover an image from a computer model to another by using a program called ACRONIS ECHO. this allows you to recover the image and after that reinstall the drivers of the new computer. 2.- You did not mention if the backup file can be shared in the external hard drive with other files or the system will erase other data of the external, I might want to have 2 separated images in my external hard drives, also once I want to recover, if it is possible to actually find the directory of where those images are located in the external HD
@simongupta8724 Жыл бұрын
Hi. As an Auswertung to the question whether old data will be deleted when doing the backup, I found this, which says it won't: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/will-backup-utility-overwrite-current-ext-hard/18688a26-ce6e-40fb-a124-eca592374e44?ranMID=46131&ranEAID=a1LgFw09t88&ranSiteID=a1LgFw09t88-DNl90hcTNs9uj1OSO5MnZw&epi=a1LgFw09t88-DNl90hcTNs9uj1OSO5MnZw&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2200057_aff_7806_1243925&tduid=(ir__lhsbprxovskfb1bg11sciavx6e2xqm30kpmmzdun00)(7806)(1243925)(a1LgFw09t88-DNl90hcTNs9uj1OSO5MnZw)()&irclickid=_lhsbprxovskfb1bg11sciavx6e2xqm30kpmmzdun00 Haven't tried yet though
@angelh1743 Жыл бұрын
Best video I found so far regarding this process. Thank you very much.
@mkay60894 жыл бұрын
Thank you Thank you Thank you.. Explained simply and in detail. Finally someone who talks like a human being not a geeky tech nerd assuming we all know what we are doing.
@99baggett5 жыл бұрын
I would also recommend using File History which is similar to Time Machine on MacOS. It keeps versioned copies of all data on the fly. It’s included with all versions of Windows 10.
@patmanning43513 жыл бұрын
Repaired computer returned and system image restored - successfully! Once again, thank you, BIG time!
@sunilj102 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, I lost my data and learnt from my mistake and your video helped me take precautions for the next time around. I am now prepared to face the future. :)
@maggieblyth20774 жыл бұрын
Great video Dave. I have spent hours trying to find a video on what i was looking for and i think you have nailed it. Thank you
@DavesTechRescue6 жыл бұрын
This backup took my computer well over 2 hours to complete! How long did it take for yours to do?
@trevorsmales93035 жыл бұрын
6 minutes. But I only have my installation and programs on C drive. That drive being a M2 NVME and backing up to a Sata SSD also helps speeds things up.
@trevorsmales93035 жыл бұрын
51 Gb total.
@seunice37044 жыл бұрын
Hi dave can I using pen drive to make a system image backup ????
@mkay60894 жыл бұрын
It took 9 mins. i5 with a 256 ssd C drive to an internal 2tb sata.
@radughita19924 жыл бұрын
@@seunice3704 No, it does not have the sufficient capacity to store one.
@cesarc27244 жыл бұрын
When want you back to YT!!! Thanks for the excelent tutorials
@christophergrove48763 жыл бұрын
"More importantly, I hope you never need it."... Are you KIDDING!? I CAN'T WAIT for my computer to crash, now!!! 🤣
@Super8Rescue4 жыл бұрын
I am just about to join the windows 10 party so your video here has been a great help to me as my new laptop arrives tomorrow, and this will be the first thing I do. Thank you for the video
@yemarican2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to make this awesome tutorial. Super nice!
@audiovisualproof5407 Жыл бұрын
Don't know if any have had this issue when creating a Windows 10 System Image but I tried to successfully create a system image 5 times and each time the status would reach 97% then stall and never fully complete. Then a thought dawned on me and that was to NOT hide my desktop icons and make sure the "Show desktop icons" was selected from the right mouse click desktop context menu. I was finally able to create a Windows 10 System Image after much frustration! 😃👍
@merryplayer75513 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave, you made the process simple to understand and complete.
@effdpaul1815 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I have had a "catastrophe" in the past: a power on/off situation in the 110v Household power ... it blinked on and off a few times in a second or so ... resulting in a power surge that took out the hard drives in both my Linux Desktop and my Windows Desktop. The drives in both of these computers had given me their money's worth ... over 8 years old each, I think, and I needed an excuse to upgrade to SSDs in both. Restoring my Linux Desktop hard drive was not too hard, but there were peculiarities that needed to be addressed: The size of the original hard drive was bigger than the SSD I replace it with. The Windows Desktop was a bit of a chore reinstalling my licensed copy of Windows 10. I am just a user and not a computer repair tech and I am quite aware of how easy it is to do even more damage to your equipment and software and files if you don't do EXACTLY what is required. The computer industry is at least partly responsible for the confusion that users experience due to ambiguous terms and vague directions. Room for improvement. I have to thank you for your well thought out videos and your clear communication on the subject on hand. Always remember that those listening to your videos may not and probably don't have the same level of understanding that you have.
@joekilbreth39014 жыл бұрын
VERY good quality video. Thanks! Question: can you create a system backup like this on a hard drive that already has some data on it? or does the target drive for the backup have to be empty? Thanks in advance!
@myerwerl2 жыл бұрын
i have the exact same question!
@jiju11853 жыл бұрын
That was the best tutorial video I have ever seen! Outstanding!
@clydeperrine29595 жыл бұрын
Nice information, I am going make a System image backup, and I also watched your other video of making a Windows 10 USB recovery drive. We all know that it's not "IF" your hard drive will fail. It's "When" will your hard drive will fail. When this happens using your videos I should be able to replace my hard drive and restore Windows and files that I have backed up.
@davidkorbel6592 жыл бұрын
Sir, Your videos are spot on !
@bradleymorris69815 жыл бұрын
Not a bad tutorial, you can also use a third party program like Acronis.
@Roottech255 жыл бұрын
Or Symantec ghost, clonezilla...
@ayadalhilo4 жыл бұрын
Yes, a third party program is my choice too. Microsoft tools are not the best.
@sthannyer80914 жыл бұрын
cool video simple and not with stupid things thank you i have one question, when we want to take the image back up from hard drive with usb, does it have possiblity that ll delete all datas in side the usb hdd ?
@recidejayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz183 жыл бұрын
nice BG music, from royalty free music
@akulavarun71835 жыл бұрын
Please continue what you're doing you're so helpful !!! Thanks 🇮🇳💕🇮🇳
@nikolygtx88485 жыл бұрын
Tnx now i install windows and all programs in just 7 min
@beyvargas36894 жыл бұрын
TYSM ^^ Needed this along with the USB Recovery to replace a failing HDD - Aloha form Maui^^
@alitabaker992 жыл бұрын
Excellent video my friend
@muhammadasifansari10314 жыл бұрын
Thank u so much...the way u explaining all stuff is marvelous ❣️❣️❣️
@ALIVE.Offical3 жыл бұрын
So beautifully explained, and simple. Thank you I am learning new stuff here, big thumbs up
@petesmit333 жыл бұрын
Excellent as are all your other Videos Dave
@ga78534 жыл бұрын
Dave, Thank you so much again, you have the best videos on KZbin, clear and detailed, thanks again for taking the time to make those videos, Appreciated.
@georgeemanson4 жыл бұрын
Good video but i have a couple of questions: 1) When backing up to the external drive does the process copy over anything that is on the external drive? 2) Afterwards can we use the remaining space on the external drive?
@juga74 жыл бұрын
Great video, very informative and professional. Thank you.
@harpguy14 жыл бұрын
Another well-done tutorial, thank U Dave.
@sahanulgen72142 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much buddy!!!! Your video saved me, thanks so much for your effort
@e.f.kridermountainmist55302 жыл бұрын
Very informative and easy to follow, thank you.
@CyberMedics2 жыл бұрын
Great job on the video. Thank you!
@mnsalam85053 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, and everyone.. Firstly thanks to Dave for coming up with these videos, recognize the amount of effort spent to layman explain these techie things especially on backup and recovery. Kudos. So just to clarify, : in case i need to revert my whole local C drive including contents apps data drivers all in that C drive (OS plus ALL files in my C drive), i will need both System recovery usb + the system image hard disk?? Wont it work with just the system image hdd? Another thing to observe, - there's quite a number of queries here but would really appreciate some responses (much much appreciated). Cheers!
@lifewithahmed814 жыл бұрын
u r a savior. thnx for the saving videos. learned so much and its not that complicated.
@subhadeepghosh90933 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, It was an awesome trick !!!.... Thanks a lot for this
@kirksidley61352 жыл бұрын
Dave. Excellent video. Thank you so much.
@habib-ur-rehmanmushtaqoffi68872 жыл бұрын
wonderful explanation
@muoifernandez34872 жыл бұрын
It is new technology for me .i need to watch few time to follow up. Thanks
@materialessustentables3 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial. Thanx! You mentioned that the image would only work on the same computer. Can I still use an image to switch a mechanical drive to an ssd one on the same laptop? Will the image load on a brand new ssd internal harddrive?
@leosoldado80042 жыл бұрын
Hi. Thanks always for sharing. Your videos are great but the music is too loud that I had to remove my earphones each time it plays. God bless.
@elektron2kim6665 жыл бұрын
It worked for me several times. Be advised on staying in the same UEFI/Legacy boot as the backup image was made in.
@lesrogers73104 жыл бұрын
Yes, this is a good point. Unfortunately this will also confuse a lot of folks here who are unaware of the differences.
@Balunliinfi4 жыл бұрын
what where
@budebert24572 жыл бұрын
Good stuff!!! I saved my computer using your info. Thanks
@tonybates59483 жыл бұрын
Good video. Very helpful and concise.
@hoangtruong71664 жыл бұрын
Measuring that the original name as "WindowsImageBackup" should not change, I changed the name, so it showed "Windows cannot find a system image on this computer" in restoring.
@paulfuller79293 жыл бұрын
great video easy to understand keep up the good help info
@theHAL90004 жыл бұрын
Terrific video. Very informative and instructional. Thanks!
@MetalKingdom6663 жыл бұрын
Thanks Man this really help full video ,keep going.
@Laborkei4 жыл бұрын
I created my own SSD Drive for backup, that is the same model of the SSD that is in my computer. So when I do a System Image, I can recover by taking out the SSD Drive in the computer, and put the SSD in from the USB Case that holds the System Image, and just boot back up... I am Recovered... I use a program called AOMEI Backupper. It creates a exact copy of my 256GB Drive in about 15 minutes. I use this method because I have been burned by Microsoft Windows 10 updates failing, and getting support is timely. Now I just swap the drives, the one that has the OS error now becomes my new System Image Drive. For Individual files, I use a 256GB thumb drive that I keep plugged in all the time using the history method.
@ianherbas1 Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for this video tutorial sir.
@cliffmagnus59764 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, I just discovered your great videos. An excellent video of how to create a full system image using windows but could you make a video using Macrium Reflect 7 Free? It is much faster and more reliable than windows and can also make a full clone of your drive within the same program. You could also explain the differences between Intermediate and differencial backups etc, and between Cloning and a System image. What do you think?
@muhammedyusuf9464 жыл бұрын
Your videos are amazing. To the point and concise. Keep it up !!
@johndaugherty77793 жыл бұрын
Very well done. Two suggestions: 1. Background music is pointless and annoying 2. You might want to spend a little time explaining how to change the boot process so that the pc boots from the recovery disk.
@literallydeadpool4 жыл бұрын
Will this clear an external hard drive of all of its stuff? I want to take all the stuff in my computer's storage and put it in a slightly filled drive, but I don't want to put it anywhere else.
@SanskarMittal20013 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information
@DavidPixleythemuzzlZ5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great videos! You should consider lowering the volume ramp-up of the the 2 second music breaks, in your videos. It hurts. Question: can you create a system image on an external drive that also has data backed up, or does it need to be dedicated to only being a system image? I have a 3 TB WD Elements, and I'd like to put an image on it. If it is possible, would I need to partition the drive?
@CyberMedics2 жыл бұрын
Late reply, but yes you can. Windows backup allows you to put the data files and system image on the same external drive. You will want to create a recovery USB, so you can boot into the utilities that allow this.
@LP001519874 жыл бұрын
Thanks for useful information, 👍
@delmontebravo3 жыл бұрын
Great Tutorial! Thanks it really help.
@Darignobullseye4 жыл бұрын
Very Helpful! Thank you!
@davidkarl_dave3 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir Dave.
@pratherat3 жыл бұрын
I've been using a USB-bootable copy of Norton Ghost to back up system images which I've found very reliable, But although my new computer boots to this USB stick, it won't recognize my mouse or keyboard. Glad there are other options.
@raphaelusek2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Very educational 👍👍👍
@evboi45493 жыл бұрын
Do i need a reformatted or empty harddrive to do system image backup?
@_tyler-_-6 жыл бұрын
Speaking of hard drives, whats your opinion on a hybrid drive vs an SSD+HDD combo in a desktop? Would the SSD in the hybrid last longer because its only used when it's needed? Also, solid video, wish this was made before my SSD failed on my laptop :( Still, very useful information and well layed out.
@DavesTechRescue6 жыл бұрын
That’s a really interesting question! If you are able to have an SSD and an HDD, and you know how to manage what is stored in each, then you’ll be happier than if you had a hybrid drive. Hybrids are better for people who need the simplicity of storing everything in one drive, but they run slower than SSDs when they are in the phase of ‘learning’ what should be stored where. Hybrids are also great if your computer only lets you connect a single drive. As for whether the SSD would last longer in a hybrid drive - I would guess it would have a similar lifespan to an SSD in normal use. But overall I guess the hybrid drive has a shorter lifespan because it has an SSD + HDD in constant use, and as soon as either one of those fails, the whole unit is dead. Glad you like the video :)