Because of this comment, my backup drive turned into a cat

@@thomaspiekos3440 Is the cat dead or alive?

@@coreygibson15 Yes.

BRB, writing all the 1s and 0s onto paper.

@@coreygibson15 until we look both or none

Hes been shilling for wargaming lel :p jk Jay.

That was so coool

he actually would look good in a uniform, if it wasn't artwork

Aye aye Admiral Jay

Damn. That does look cool.

@Zwenk Wiel yeah, but I did once. It was on a build I was doing for someone too. We had just gotten it setup and I went to initialize the D drive and I formatted the C drive.... embarrassing...

I didn't lose data this way, but have felt the pain of loosing it. Even to this day, I mourne my missing data :(

Long time ago, i did a format d:\ /u and quickly pressed enter, taking one second to realize that i formatted THE BACKUP DRIVE!

I formatted a drive that had like 2 TB of pictures and videos on it and when trying to format a new drive I typed the wrong letter and then the next few days I was just doing data recovery. got most of it back tho

i accidentally formatted my drive today and the pain is real

Can't beat them but this one was up there with the better ones

Everytime I use my kit I yell "ifixit" in the best jay voice I can muster.

They should interrupt this ad for the I fix it ad

Nick's imitation of a mosquito is amazing though!

There was 69 thumbs up... No more!

Slap it once, it'll be alright.

tbh depending on the computer I still may hear bad noises before an error code comes up... consumer off the shelf office PCs are awful man. I swear HPs in built drive test in particular would say a drive with no platters is good just so they could avoid warranty repair

@@ZeDarkLord Put in the freezer for a bit. Good as new - for 30 mins.

My company laptop still makes these noises... Strange, as it has an SSD. Guess the fan is dying.

@@dragons_advocate you sure it's not coil whine?

Is that all you got from this!?

that is why we all are friends with Admiral JayzTwoCents o7

PEBKAC

@@Beshman12 Problems Exist Between Chair and Keyboard?

I would start with looking into your power supply, make sure your BIOS is up to date and upgrade the firmware if you can.

@@Beshman12 Too non-subtle and contrived for your tastes? 😉

maybe you could update your S.M.A.R.T?

Looks at his 5 year old Intel raid 0 ssds

@@timothygibney159 Two words (ok, one word, one TLA) : Synology NAS. Mine not only has double redundancy (RAID-5 with two hot spares) it also does differential replication nightly up to AWS S3, and monthly replication up to AWS Glacier. On the pessimist gauge I'm *very* blessed. :-)

@@Craig-ib7gk I have an xtreemfs san, with an extra one at my mom's house, just in case.

i got a new machine its great but not a lot of hard drive space so i added a couple of old HDDS i had and one of them is really noisy so its basically terminal....so i just use the drive for some installed games and daily i have to backup the saves so all ill lose is the game not the saves hopefully gonna replace it soon EDIT: well not all the save that would suck most of them are in my documents so not a big deal

i think i have around 5 usb sticks where i put the important documents, 1 windows boot stick, 1 Kaspersky scanner stick. important pictures are in physical format. as in a picture album.

that clicking sound...

The "pleasant" sound of an IBM IC35 series after just a few months...

god I swear my heart beats fast the moment I hear that clicking sound...

My torrent HDD failing and gotta love SMART. New one on the way to clone it.

More traumatic is when the magnetic substrate goes bad. To heck with head crashes, those are avoidable simply by not dropping the drive, but magnetic substrates can and will go bad the more you write to them (like bending a paper clip over and over til it snaps) and you won't ever see it coming til you start having ATA delayed write failed errors suddenly start popping up, then a few hours later your drive disappears from device manager.

Pretty surprising, really. OCZ had a reputation for failing SSDs back around that time. Luckily mine lasted until I needed to upgrade yet I was still on edge with the thing.

Ngl if you just want a dedicated OS drive, 120-240 GB is usually enough.

@@Senzorei Exactly. 240GB, or maybe 500 if you have a bad habit of putting things on the desktop (like I do), and your game installs, Steam library(ies), movies/music and other documents on a separate 'data' drive(s). Also helps considerably if you find yourself prone to needing to re-install the OS (failing drive, migrating to hardware your current OS doesn't support anymore, OS maker stupidly lets through broken updates and doesn't allow you to refuse/postpone them, etc.)). Also helps to keep an 'installer archive' on said data drive, to make having to reinstall the OS less of a chore.

Still using 120gb samsung 840 8 years later... i know samsung has questionable products but an ssd is not one of them

@@VulpisFoxfire Yep. I keep most of the library folders (desktop, documents etc) on my hard drive as it's typically stuff that doesn't require high bandwidths (although it can certainly be annoying when I'm downloading something or seeding torrents and trying to listen to music at the same time, it can interfere with the read of the file). I also have my %temp% and %tmp% directories located on the hard disk as well for longevity reasons (the data throughput probably isn't significant enough to cut into the lifespan of an SSD, it probably doesn't hurt though).

I was thinking the same thing when Jay said that.

X2

yup, I'm using Arcserve UDP to a NAS. when its completely failing i just boot up Arcserve BMR and get the data from the nas directly copied to the SSD again like it was before. also my daily backup only takes about 15 mins or so. That is usually a business solution for servers etc and low downtime but it also has an awesome free version.

in this case, the C drive was still usable they could have used some imaging program (like the one i use, macrium reflect) and then there wouldn't be any need for setting up stuff man i love imaging my C drive. Imagine your plex server one day just deciding "nope. not going to load your 50,000 customized images and movie posters" well haha sucker I have an image of the drive. voila problem solved. days of work saved!

I've always just used Win7 backup utility every 2 weeks since its invention. Have had to reload 3 times on failed drives over the years and it's like a 20min restore.

Thank you! AOMEI recently bricked itself for me and won't let me clone boot drives without Pro. This should solve that for me.

@@KiteAndKeyProductions clonezilla, works wonders, and its free!

@@TheCannonFather I managed to brick my OS with Clonezilla. Just use Macrium Reflect, it's free, simple and can image/copy a live OS

I tried to clonezilla my failed ssd, but it had IO errors on a clean drive I was copying to, so I just copied from my User directory using a live Linux ISO. TGFL

Samsung magician or whatever it's called is good too, any errors in the os, windows can fix them

What did you learn from this video? To waste money on a new drive?

pretty sure he just photoshopped his face into the picture.

@@drawapretzel6003 its actual art on their site omg

It's Jay's natural habitat. He earned that shit lol

nem tudom mire gondolsz

Imagine being officially on your favourite game! That's awesome!

Lol this is why I always recommend these ssd, for the crucial jokes

They come with an OEM version of Acronis True Image as well, which is handy and I have taken advantage of a couple of times.

@@ic_trab yep, I've used it before it's nice. My favorite brand in my whole PC by far, I really trust their drives and have good success with them for a decade or so

bruh

Oh my God... XD

iFixit is still the best.

They were crucial to his naval strategy

Sometimes feels like such a waste all this technology bound to collect dust in some youtuber's place.

I guess Jay is doing a Chia build 😆

@@HauntedSheppard nah thats his chia farm 🤣

Suez-load of SSD's.

Agreed. I have been using it for years. I was so happy with the free version I wanted to support them and bought a license.

Mirroring is a crap shoot with a failing drive. It's certainly something you can try. But if there is a bad sector or bad component with a physical failure you are at risk of copying over the corrupted software. I'm not going to put down people who have had successful experiences using raid arrays. More power to them. But for me it has been a frustrating experience. Currently my practice is to keep all operating software on one drive and all data files on another drive. Backups of the data are made every day and I also subscribe to off site data backup service for about 6 bucks a month. I also do an air gapped backup once a week of data. When I built the computer I cloned the operating system, which is on an m.2, to another m.2. I put the second m.2 in the closet. If I ever suffer a drive failure or an encryption attack I can be up and running in about an hour. So I do have a use for cloning, but I won't clone a drive with known issues. Your mileage may vary.

When a drive is failing it’s better to just get a fresh windows Install since there’s no telling if something got corrupted. It’s recommended anyway to get a fresh install of windows every few years.

FWIW I've had the best of luck with it working around bad sectors to still get an image I can chkdsk or fsck once on the target drive and it is more intelligent about EFI boot partitions as well when going to smaller drives. Definitely my first choice.

@@pach5052 I wish it were that easy. I work at an MSP and there are some instances where reloading is not an option. Fml

That’s two star admiral Jay in fact!

I snorted when i saw that

Hell it may actually happen.

WOW, where you can still bring a gun to a missile fight....

Yes he will, say hi to Davey Jones for me while ur down there.

Rear Admiral

I know you're joking but if you want the real answer, Chia mining.

@@wingracer1614 thanks lol, so many jokes these days go over people's heads, glad you saw through it

Bro I was so mad. I was like nah the prices haven't changed in over a month, I can hold off but then it went up $20. Im pissed

@@asadburden1621 Go work for an hour at McD and you'll be set.

@@wingracer1614 As if there weren't factors driving up PC component prices, someone just had to invent another pointless bullshit scheme on which to waste components.

Jay looks like a Admiral in the UNSC in the Halo universe.

An SSD is pretty much guaranteed to have SMART. It came into use with HDDs well before SSDs were on the market.

AnD iF hE eVeR gEtS sHoT uP, hE wIlL jUsT fIx It WiTh IfIxIt!

IFIXIT. FIX IT WITH IFIXIT. I FIX IT WITH IFIXIT!!!

Don't remind us of those nightmares

Don't forget , the Raptor drives were always noisy . I was "given" a "slightly used " one and it scared me the first time I used it ! Worked great until the day it fell 6" to the floor . RIP Raptor....

That's if you're lucky. True, you often get a couple days' warning ("hey, did you just hear some clicking?"), but it still caught most people by surprise.

Even further back, you could hear when a hard drive was reading a text file.

That is about the only thing that is awesome about WoWs these days. The company is does its best to ruin the game and squeeze the last $ out of its players. Check youtube for "Wows subs", "WoWs carrier balance", "WoWs Pay to Rico", "WoWs balance" etc.

wow

Sorry my dude. Wow = World of Warcraft. Its been alive for 15 years. Google wow its the only result for pagessss

@@muaries12 Wow!

Agreed. The chance of corrupting (more) data by accessing a failing drive this way is high. Jay's case of "failure imminent" might be the single one (for a ssd) when it is safe to boot of the SSD. But usually one doesn't know the kind of failure beforehand.

Same thoughts here 😂💀

Yea it's a shame cause Kingston ain't like chineseium levels of bootleg but man it really does seem like they just don't have the raw endurance and reliability power other vendors like Crucial or Samsung or WD have.

yep me 2, had one that only lasted 2yrs as boot drive and it died, I have a 1st gen samsung in a laptop and its still going fine LOL

@@murrayhayes1659 I have an OCZ Agility 3 from like 2012 or 2013 60 gig and that fucker still works LOL.

@@murrayhayes1659 that sounds about right, I had two 500GB Kinston SSDs fail on me within a total lifespan of 5 years. The only reason I had a 2nd one was because my boss gave them both to me for free (I work in IT)

really makes you wonder what the hell is google doing to the youtube platform

You guys can't expect it to take under 10 minutes, you know sending over 1 million notifications isn't easy?

I was really surprised when I saw him reinstalling windows. I thought this was going to be where he was headed with this the whole time tbh...

@@EnragedN3wb Yeah, me too. Was surprised that he did not go for cloning.

This has been me.. either it is 100% just fine, or won't even boot, rip drivez, buy a new one and reinstall windows lol.

He already did one on AOMEI, my preferred tool is clonezilla you have to use some of the advanced settings when the drive is dying sometimes but it usually works, so I'm not sure why he didn't go for it, unless nick actually just wanted to start fresh or they were too busy for the increased effort. 240s are so cheap these days if my OS drive were that small I'd almost buy a spare drive and just make a regular image clone or run RAID 1

@@RandarTheBarbarian yep, I've done it twice. On a tower, easy, and on a laptop, here I needed an accessory to connect the new ssd externally. Don't known why Jay missed or skipped the system disk clone option.

You're not wrong, but it helps to have problems to diagnose...

Also if you need to clone to a smaller disk you can shrink the boot partition in disk management prior to cloning

...thanks, i was gonna ask ...

Also, thank you. Looked in the description thinking it'd be there.

Because SSD NAND has a set amount of lifetime read/writes. I'm assuming that's why it can know that the end is near.

Doesn't help when you have multiple game drives. I put only the games I play a lot and that have really long load times on my NVME (this was a game changer for Horizon: Zero Dawn). Most other games go on one or the other of two sata SSDs. Old low spec games I still play go on the big HDD. Took me a bit to figure out how to get everything working right when I upgraded to the NVME but wasn't all that bad. Plus it was kind of fun having that much fast storage to play around with and configure.

There are other games besides fallout new vegas ?

I used to only have windows on my boot drive but after my recent PC upgrade I noticed many programs are force installed on C and cant be changed. Really frustrating because I have a very clean folder structure on my second SSD.