Hitachi Deathstar

[Fabien LE LEZ]

Hello,

I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.
Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar™
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]

 

[Rod Speed]

I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.
Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?

Nope, those were the 75GXP and 60GXP drives.

The current 80G deskstar is a 7K250, 7K160 or 7K80 .

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hello,

I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.
Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar™
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]

According to Odie (who has a reasonable sample of defective drives)
the newer Hitachi drives seem to be reasonably reliable.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hello,

I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.

No, really?

Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?

Yep, going back 15 years or more and still going strong.

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious.

Actually, it's to replace

a true IBM® Deathstar™

If you actually knew what a 'true' Deathstar was then you obviously
would not be asking this question.

[snip]

Troll turd flushed where it belongs.

 

[Neill Massello]

I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.
Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?

Yes and no. Deskstar was IBM's name for their family of 3.5 inch ATA
hard drives, encompassing many models over many years. The specific
models that earned (and deserved) the "Deathstar" nickname were the
75GXP and 60GXP, both discontinued before Hitachi bought IBM's hard
drive business a few years ago. To my knowledge, neither of those models
ever bore the Hitachi brand, and no model released by IBM or Hitachi
since then has had anything like their high failure rates.

I've currently got five (two online and two backup) Hitachi Deskstar
250GB SATA drives. The oldest (one of the online drives) has been in
service for 13 months. Fast and quiet. No failures, data loss, or other
problems.

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]

Every manufacturer has shipped lemon drives at some time. There are no
guarantees. I don't know of any unusual complaints about recent WD or
Deskstar models.

 

[Fabien LE LEZ]

Every manufacturer has shipped lemon drives at some time.

Yep. That's why I don't bother with expensives drives, at least at
work: I've got a server with a RAID-5 array, containing all the data,
and for the workstations I just grab the cheapest disks I can find.
Changing a hard drive on a workstation doesn't take more than a few
minutes anyway (including restoring the system from a ghost).

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Yes and no. Deskstar was IBM's name for their family of 3.5 inch ATA
hard drives, encompassing many models over many years. The specific
models that earned (and deserved) the "Deathstar" nickname were the
75GXP and 60GXP, both discontinued before Hitachi bought IBM's hard
drive business a few years ago.

To my knowledge, neither of those models ever bore the Hitachi brand,

Not as commercially sold, but Hitachi may have (had?) a few in store for
warranty replacement. I think I once had an IBM DMVS drive back for
warranty, labeled Hitachi, made for IBM.

and no model released by IBM or Hitachi since then has had anything
like their high failure rates.

I've currently got five (two online and two backup) Hitachi Deskstar
250GB SATA drives. The oldest (one of the online drives) has been in
service for 13 months. Fast and quiet. No failures, data loss, or other
problems.

[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]

Every manufacturer has shipped lemon drives at some time. There are no
guarantees. I don't know of any unusual complaints about recent WD or
Deskstar models.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Yep. That's why I don't bother with expensives drives, at least at
work: I've got a server with a RAID-5 array, containing all the data,
and for the workstations I just grab the cheapest disks I can find.

Changing a hard drive on a workstation doesn't take more than a few
minutes anyway (including restoring the system from a ghost).

Thanks for making that up, babblebot.