PickVidsBest Hardware (other) Videos
The 20 Hardware (other) videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 5 intermediate, 15 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Linus Tech Tips, LGR, suckerpinch.
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
Tom7 (suckerpinch) builds and evaluates a series of absurd hard drives, including storage made from ping packets across the internet.
How does Computer Memory Work? 💻🛠
A 36-minute animated deep dive from Branch Education into how DRAM works.
Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon
Techmoan demonstrates the Tefifon, a vintage German audio player that combines elements of record and tape with a grooved elastic loop.
Shouting in the Datacenter
A two-minute 2008 clip from Sun's Fishworks team in which Brendan Gregg uses DTrace to show disk latency spiking while he shouts at a rack of drives.
Samsung SSD Awesomeness
A Samsung-backed viral demo that builds a fast computer from 24 256GB MLC SSDs in a RAID 0 array and shows the throughput results.
DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
Zoz's DEF CON 23 talk explores practical, often explosive ways to destroy data and hard drives quickly.
Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket
Der8auer tours Hetzner's test lab and shows a custom AM5 server motherboard with the CPU socket rotated 90 degrees, built for rack airflow in their AX52 servers.
Get Perpendicular
A Hitachi promotional cartoon in the style of Schoolhouse Rock explaining perpendicular magnetic recording for hard drives.
Why Your Webcam Still SUCKS!
A short Techquickie explainer on why laptop webcams are much worse than phone cameras.
Linear Book Scanner
Google engineer Dany Qumsiyeh presents a prototype automatic, non-destructive book scanner that turns pages and captures high-resolution images, built in Google's workshops.
Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"
A four-minute Velocity 2011 talk in which Artur Bergman, then at Wikia, argues bluntly and with profanity that SSDs should replace spinning disks in servers.
ScanRobot 2.0 MDS: Scanning very thick books up to 15 cm (6 inch)
A demo of the Treventus ScanRobot 2.0 MDS, an automatic book scanner that digitizes very thick books up to 15 cm with gentle handling.
All of our data is GONE!
Linus Tech Tips documents a major RAID failure on its Whonnock server and the attempt to recover the lost data with a data recovery firm.
Apple's soldered-in SSDs are engineered in the worst way possible
Louis Rossmann, an independent repair technician, explains why he thinks Apple's soldered-in SSDs are a poor design.
LGR Oddware - MiniDisc Data Storage: Sony MDH-10
An LGR Oddware episode looking at Sony's MDH-10 MD Data drive from 1995, which used MiniDisc for computer storage years before Hi-MD.
LGR Oddware - Danmere Backer VHS Hard Drive Backup System
LGR reviews the Danmere Backer16, a 1996 backup system that stored a PC's data on ordinary VHS tapes through a VCR.
SSI's Shred of the Month: E-Scrap - Hard Drives Shredding (Q)
A one-minute clip from SSI showing its Quad shredder destroying computer hard drives and electronic scrap.
Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie
A short IBM behind-the-scenes documentary on how researchers moved individual atoms to make the world's smallest movie.
I Hope Google Doesn’t Ban Us... - Abusing Unlimited Google Drive
Linus Tech Tips backs up their petabyte server to Google's unlimited G Suite Drive plan and runs into the daily upload cap.
What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?
A short 2001 Tom's Hardware clip that runs Quake 3 on several popular CPU and motherboard combinations of the era, then removes the CPU cooler to see which chips survive.