{"video_id":"SH_XsrHezN4","title":"Hard Drives Are NOT All The Same","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":365,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.2,"text":"thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.2,"end_s":9.519,"text":"notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.6,"end_s":15.28,"text":"even though super fast solid state drives or ssds are all the rage for high","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.0,"end_s":17.359,"text":"performance pcs these days you still","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.28,"end_s":22.16,"text":"can't beat a good old-fashioned mechanical hard drive if you need lots","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.359,"end_s":28.0,"text":"of storage space for not a lot of money but which one do you choose even 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know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.4,"end_s":357.44,"text":"if we made a law about like subscribing to us it would be called the subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.88,"end_s":363.32,"text":"subscribe subscribe act smash like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":359.68,"end_s":363.32,"text":"smash like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos even though super fast solid state drives or ssds are all the rage for high performance pcs these days you still can't beat a good old-fashioned mechanical hard drive if you need lots of storage space for not a lot of money but which one do you choose even though hard drives are all relatively slow compared to ssds you'll still find that they vary in price performance and features and this isn't just due to differences in how fast they spin although that is a significant factor so the spindle speed denoted in RPM is how many times the disc platters rotate per minute so all other things being equal then the faster this is the faster data can be read and written and the lower the seek times or latency are but all other things aren't equal you see for example some hard drives are made to be tougher than others you'll often see these marketed as nas grade enterprise or surveillance drives the idea is that for these kinds of applications the hard drives they don't get to spin down and go to sleep like they would if they were installed in a typical desktop they have to be up and running around the clock i mean think about how web servers need to be able to serve content 24 hours a day or how surveillance cameras have to constantly record footage but how exactly do you make a hard drive tougher and is this a feature that's worth paying extra for let's start by looking at a simple way that drive manufacturers stabilize their server grade products they will actually attach the motor that spins the platters to both the top and the bottom of the drive's housing consumer hard drives by contrast often anchor the motor only to the bottom of the unit this extra stabilization is important because nas's and servers typically have many drives spinning and clicking away next to each other in close quarters which means more vibration higher end drives also try to avoid errors with more precise actuators that move the reed and right head around the disc they'll incorporate stronger magnets inside that can accelerate the head more quickly and the heads themselves will even be narrower this means that the empty space between data tracks on the platter can be made physically larger giving the drive a larger margin for error in the event that something like a sudden physical shock occurs and when things do go wrong higher end drives can to an extent compensate for mishaps many of these hard drives have built-in sensors that can detect shocks vibrations and even temperature changes which will tell the drive to adjust how the head positions itself over the platters preventing the drive from slowing down too much some of them can even get rid of problematic air bubbles that can form inside the fluid dynamic bearings that helped the platters spin so that's all pretty cool but if you just need more storage for your steam library you probably don't need anything more than a typical consumer grade drive as it won't be exposed to either the physical risks or the demanding workloads that the more expensive drives are designed for so for you the viewer it probably does just come down to performance capacity and price with that said if you're running a home nas to serve media within your home or even over the internet a nas drive is probably going to be a good choice and these can even be a good bet if you're running a raid array in your pc since the drives tend to be quite close together and nas drives are built to withstand vibration or if you know for a fact you're only using this hard drive for archival purposes where you'll be writing to it once and then only really reading from it over time shingled magnetic storage drives can be a good bet they're much slower to write to but their read speeds are more than acceptable and they do tend to be cheaper because manufacturers can get more density out of the platter by actually overlaying tracks on top of each other just like shingles hence the name the last edge case for home users is probably surveillance drives which i guess leads us perfectly to another key but not very obvious difference from one model to another firmware hard drive manufacturers can optimize their devices for better performance in certain workloads and surveillance drives are designed to handle many simultaneous streams of data concurrently in a way that drives that were made to boot your operating system simply can't their read speeds might be a little bit slower but a good surveillance drive will make it more likely that you can get a positive id on that guy who took your who pudding and your roast beast speaking of beast private internet access vpn is one beast of a vpn not only does pia work on up to five devices at once hiding your true ip address and allowing you to bypass geo restrictions and censorship it also blocks unwanted connections to help prevent attacks autoblocks all traffic if the vpn disconnects keeps your data out of the hands of advertisers and other snoops and it even includes mace pia's built-in malware blocker pia supports multiple vpn protocols and encryption levels so you can dial in the level of protection that you need and they've got apps for Windows mac Android iOS Linux and a chrome extension pia has over 3 000 servers in 28 countries and they do not log user activity so what are you waiting for check out pia at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our other videos don't forget 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