WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:07.279 the idea of electronics being waterproof isn't exactly new I mean most Flagship 00:00:05.319 --> 00:00:12.240 phones whether you're talking your s7s or your iPhone 7S whatever the case may 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:16.160 be they're designed to go bloop into the water yay look at that they survived 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:24.279 it's amazing okay we've all seen this before but what if you could 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:28.199 waterproof a computer hard 00:00:24.279 --> 00:00:31.900 drive impractical yes 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:40.559 impossible let's find out 00:00:40.559 --> 00:00:46.480 Corsair's 570x midtower case features 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:50.879 four tempered glass panels check it out at the link in the video description so 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:55.559 the first and most obvious problem we need to solve is the exposed PCB that 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:59.039 you'll find on the bottom of pretty much any modern hard drive if you know a 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:05.519 thing or two about water you'll know that while it's starts s non-electrically conductive as soon as 00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:11.040 it starts to pick up any impurities or metal ions it quickly becomes conductive 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:15.560 and will cause any electronic devices that are submerged in it for long enough 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:21.360 to short out and or be permanently damaged so I picked myself up a can of 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:25.880 mg chemicals conformal coating number 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:27.520 419c 340g it's xylene free toine free 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:31.840 low vocc if you're into that sort of thing but more importantly it protects 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:37.640 against moisture dirt dust and apparently thermal shocks and insulates 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:45.600 against high voltage arcs shorts and static discharge so Step One is we are 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:47.119 going to treat our PCB with this stuff 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:53.200 okay so let's get started you grab any old hard drive you want and go to town 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:56.439 right wrong so most hard drives today 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:59.119 are actually full of good oldfashioned 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:04.159 air and they've got these breather ports that allow them to stay at the same 00:02:01.320 --> 00:02:08.920 internal pressure as the atmosphere around them this is imperative for their 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:14.080 functionality and this is actually the reason why even when you submerge them 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:18.080 in a non-conductive fluid like a mineral oil cooled computer we have a build blog 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:22.200 that you can check out here where we actually explained all of this they 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:26.920 would still cease to work because through these breather ports the mineral 00:02:24.200 --> 00:02:32.519 oil or any other fluid would seep in and Gunk up the internals of the hard drive 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:37.879 but there's been a recent development in hard drive technology that leads me to 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:41.159 believe that perhaps we could run a 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:44.200 drive submerged in fluid this is a 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:46.760 Seagate Barracuda Pro it is a helium 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:50.879 filed drive now the point of helium filled drives was more efficient 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:55.360 operation since helium is less dense than air so when you're spinning the 00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:00.159 spindles around there's less resistance but it also means they had to seal the 00:02:58.200 --> 00:03:04.760 insides of the drives because if the helium got out then you would lose the 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:12.519 benefit right so this is the drive that I will be using 99% isopropyl 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:14.720 alcohol and 00:03:12.519 --> 00:03:20.560 bloop don't worry kids this is definitely safe I've done this many 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:22.920 times I'm a professional now let's make 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:28.360 ourselves somewhere to spray cuz I think the spray booth is over in the on the 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:33.519 other side I have to assume this stuff wouldn't be very good to inhale 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.519 so don't 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:46.480 breathe okay check this out so I sprayed 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:49.840 the crap out of it like it is pretty 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.799 pretty gooped on there and uh it's 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:58.000 actually like built up around the outsides of these chips so what I'm 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:03.200 hoping is we have achieved the water resistance that we need and done so 00:04:01.079 --> 00:04:09.959 without damaging the ability of this thing to make contact with the places it 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:14.239 has to so this is where it gets really 00:04:09.959 --> 00:04:15.759 sketch well those are all definitely 00:04:14.239 --> 00:04:23.199 worn so we're going to reinstall 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:25.520 this on the hard drive and test it 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:30.320 outside before we try to put it in the water 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:35.120 mhm mhm H 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:42.160 mhm so it's possible that the painting that I did on 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:44.440 the PCB covered up these metal contacts 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:49.479 for data and power so we're just going to give it the old have you tried 00:04:46.479 --> 00:04:51.479 unplugging it and plugging it back in 00:04:49.479 --> 00:04:54.960 repeatedly try and scrape those connectors 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:57.759 clean that does seem to be making a difference I don't know if you can see 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:03.120 that close up there but you can see the conformal coating is uh 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:06.320 coming up I don't even think it's spinning 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:11.800 up H yeah this drive is definitely not 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:17.680 powered up okay so it's a power issue we can work with 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:19.720 that let's get out the old 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:23.520 scraper just go at it a bit more aggressively here can't imagine just 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:29.319 spraying conformal coating on it would have destroyed it found the problem 00:05:27.400 --> 00:05:35.720 there were three contact points under here I didn't sand the ones for power 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:41.000 for the motor so of course it's not spinning 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:44.800 up let's go ahead and give that the old 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.800 you know hard drive sanding 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:55.280 technique yes okay there it is there's our 10 tbte 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:58.600 Drive okay 00:05:55.280 --> 00:05:58.600 so it's 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:08.880 time time for what time to figure out um 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:12.000 what data I can copy for a test I am 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:16.280 basically going to take the drive and 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.280 put it in we're going to see what 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:24.360 happens what the hell is this okay so 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:30.160 it's some kind of land issue I will deal with that later in the 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:32.039 meantime I've got a USB type-c 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:38.599 Ethernet adapter here and I've have started three 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:39.960 transfers each of like 2.3 terabytes 00:06:38.599 --> 00:06:47.160 worth of data so you can see here we are 00:06:43.599 --> 00:06:49.319 transferring to the adventure drive from 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:56.319 the network so this should take quite some time now this is where it gets real 00:06:52.280 --> 00:06:56.319 so I'm going to take this 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:05.759 drive which is currently right data and ever so 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:12.400 carefully cautiously and not at all 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:16.280 recklessly oh this pains 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:18.240 me I'm actually in pain right 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:24.160 now okay I am liquid 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.160 cooling the hard 00:07:27.599 --> 00:07:31.520 drive okay I'm halfway in 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:40.199 in about 3/4 of the way 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.199 in is it still 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:53.599 transferring still going let's go get some more 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:56.080 water okay so to absolutely 00:07:53.599 --> 00:08:02.039 prove that there's no smoke in mirrors that's not mineral 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:04.319 oil here's a new ug look tap water tap 00:08:02.039 --> 00:08:04.319 water 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:15.240 AF let's top it up still 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:24.440 transferring but don't take the camera off me we're proving this is a continuous shot here we go okay tap 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.440 water AF there goes the power 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:31.560 connector and the drive is submerged 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:34.560 still transfering 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:49.480 no okay so let's get the moisture I think the power shorted I think that's 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:53.839 what happened here uhoh I don't know what effect alcohol has on the conformal 00:08:52.080 --> 00:09:00.560 cating um did not think that 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:02.920 through okay so it's been Popp in kind 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:08.200 of in and out of being detected um I think it's to do with the 00:09:05.160 --> 00:09:10.560 power connector but quite honestly see 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:13.760 here if we try again now boom it's transferring get now it's gone I don't 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:18.120 know what we were trying to prove anyway putting it in water because it has no 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:22.160 real practical application so let's just go get some 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:26.279 mineral oil so I found all the mineral oil from 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:30.720 the mineral oil PC I sincerely hope that I'm not going 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:34.240 to make a mess here but as you guys know I'm allergic 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:42.320 to funnels so uh the Chan is seem pretty 00:09:38.079 --> 00:09:42.320 good here we go 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:50.399 sh wonderful now 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:56.440 okay so here we go can it handle mineral oil I want to 00:09:53.839 --> 00:10:02.800 see a longer sustained transfer here kids that's what I want to see so you 00:09:59.800 --> 00:10:05.800 saw it here first 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:08.240 folks liquid cooled hard 00:10:05.800 --> 00:10:12.120 drive hopefully my editors have found some way to turn what's happened in the 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:17.839 last half an hour or so into some kind of coherent narrative and hopefully you 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:21.000 guys enjoyed it if you aren't familiar with mass drop they're the community 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:24.920 where users discuss products that they're interested in buying and then 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:29.279 Mast drop talks to the manufacturer and negotiates a bulk order at a discounted 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:35.360 price and they're Now featuring featuring a drop for the high-fi 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