Hitachi Hard Drives

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Toms Hardware had a review on them, anybody had expierience with them since
they replaced the IBM??
 
" Toms Hardware had a review on them, anybody had expierience with them
since they replaced the IBM?? "


I've seen that the DeskStar has been re-named the 'DeathStar' by some, but I
suppose all HDD manufacturers have their haters.
 
Toms Hardware had a review on them, anybody had expierience with them since
they replaced the IBM??
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They did a warrantee replacement (with a refurbished unit) of a failed IBM
SCSI disk for me. Very professional. Fill out the web form, which tells
you if the drive is covered (mine was). Then I shipped the drive (packaged
properly, they gave instructions) to them, and then shipped a replacement
back. I was able to track progress on their web site. Excellent support!
The refurb drive has been working correctly ever since.
 
I ran in to one of the bad drives away back when with IBM, RMA'd it and got the
hitachi drive back. Things still chugging along as my backup drive. Later when
I made the move to SATA, I read some reviews about Hitachi's SATA drives and
decided to try it. Thing has been purring along for almost a year, running
almost 24/7 the entier time.

Unfortnatly like all other products harddrives have good models and bad models.
Personaly I am always a bit learly of WD drives. I currently have several drink
coasters made out of WD drive platters I yanked on drives that were out of
warrenty and died.

That being said, if your in the market for a new drive I'd look more at Maxtor,
WD or Seagate. Hitachi, while making good drives right now, are using slightly
older tech with the drives. They tend to use smaller gig platters which means
more platters to get the higher capacities. Also Seagate and Maxtor are putting
out drives with 16meg caches which help the 7200 RPM drives compete if not
outdo the 10,000RPM Raptors. Nice thing with this is that you can get the
preformance of the Raptor but with a 300gig size drive.

Anyhoo thats my 2 cents.
~A
 
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:02:37 +0000, Azaran2003 wrote:
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That being said, if your in the market for a new drive I'd look more at Maxtor,
WD or Seagate. Hitachi, while making good drives right now, are using slightly
older tech with the drives. They tend to use smaller gig platters which means
more platters to get the higher capacities. Also Seagate and Maxtor are putting
out drives with 16meg caches which help the 7200 RPM drives compete if not
outdo the 10,000RPM Raptors. Nice thing with this is that you can get the
preformance of the Raptor but with a 300gig size drive.
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Dunno. A number of us (myself included) have had Maxtor drives die shortly
after the end of their short warrantee period. The Maxtor did work well,
while it lasted. Maybe there is something to be said for staying with
tried and true technology? Warrantees seem to be getting shorter. I'd
rather have a drive that works, and keeps working.
 
Dunno. A number of us (myself included) have had Maxtor drives die shortly
after the end of their short warrantee period. The Maxtor did work well,
while it lasted. Maybe there is something to be said for staying with
tried and true technology? Warrantees seem to be getting shorter. I'd
rather have a drive that works, and keeps working.
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True, however for me and people I know, same can be said of WD. The problem is
its kinda of a coin toss which manufacture is going to end up with a crap
batch. I have one of the first 40gig 7200 RPM drives that maxtor put out still
chugging along (love external drive enclosures). Hell only drives I've had that
have ever gone bad were 1 Quantum 6gig (and that was a big boy for the time), 1
IBM 60gig, and 3 WD of various sizes. As for warrenty, right now I dont think
anyone's beating out Seagates 5yr. Tho please correct me if I'm wrong.
~A
 
My Hitachi 160 gig SATA drive has been humming along for a month :)

No probs at all, if it makes it 2.5 years and dies ill be happy 4 year
warranty you know, but my year three i would have another or more
drives replaced it, so who cares ?
 
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