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VERY interesting. I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason - always concentrated on WD and Seagates (personal experience has led me to lean to

VERY interesting. I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason - always concentrated on WD and Seagates (personal experience has led me to lean towards WD as well, as I had a bunch of those non-LP drives that they talk about that like to conk out). From what I read they look quite reliable over a fairly representative sample (annual failure rate v. # of drives / TBs / years).

pixl97 13y ago
> I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason Probably because Hitachi bought IBM's line of Deathstar drives that were notoriously unreliable. It appears they have done far better with the product.
- kalleboo 13y ago
  Yeah, I've always had a negative view of Hitachi since I had a lot of trouble with the Deathstar 75 GXPs. But Seagate bought Maxtor, and I never heard anything good about Maxtor aside from "they're the cheapest!", so I guess it goes both ways... I stopped hearing good things about Seagate right after they had to stop using their "silent" tech after some patent dispute, which IIRC coincided with the Maxtor acquisition...
- brianwski 13y ago
  I've heard this rumor from everywhere, that the Deskstar drives were unreliable. If you look at the reviews from NewEgg they were TERRIBLE for that product. But I'm completely suspicious of where that reputation came from, because the statistics just don't bear it out. Often "common wisdom" is wrong - I suspect this is one of those cases.
  - pixl97 13y ago
    In 2000-2001 I was an admin for a day trading firm managing around 80 computers and servers. The drives worked great. They were really fast right up till the moment of their clicking death. At around 6 months around 15 out of 30 had it occur.
- Spooky23 13y ago
  The Deathstar drives were shipped during the Clinton administration. That's a long time ago to hold a grudge against a hard disk company, particularly since they all ship lemon models every few years.
theandrewbailey 13y ago
I, too, have avoided Hitachi drives, but only for noise and heat reasons. Is it just me, or do they always jam 5 platters into their 3.5" drives? Historically, I lean towards WD.

pixl97 13y ago

> I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason Probably because Hitachi bought IBM's line of Deathstar drives that were notoriously unreliable. It appears they have done far better with the product.

kalleboo 13y ago
Yeah, I've always had a negative view of Hitachi since I had a lot of trouble with the Deathstar 75 GXPs. But Seagate bought Maxtor, and I never heard anything good about Maxtor aside from "they're the cheapest!", so I guess it goes both ways... I stopped hearing good things about Seagate right after they had to stop using their "silent" tech after some patent dispute, which IIRC coincided with the Maxtor acquisition...
brianwski 13y ago
I've heard this rumor from everywhere, that the Deskstar drives were unreliable. If you look at the reviews from NewEgg they were TERRIBLE for that product. But I'm completely suspicious of where that reputation came from, because the statistics just don't bear it out. Often "common wisdom" is wrong - I suspect this is one of those cases.
- pixl97 13y ago
  In 2000-2001 I was an admin for a day trading firm managing around 80 computers and servers. The drives worked great. They were really fast right up till the moment of their clicking death. At around 6 months around 15 out of 30 had it occur.
Spooky23 13y ago
The Deathstar drives were shipped during the Clinton administration. That's a long time ago to hold a grudge against a hard disk company, particularly since they all ship lemon models every few years.

theandrewbailey 13y ago

I, too, have avoided Hitachi drives, but only for noise and heat reasons. Is it just me, or do they always jam 5 platters into their 3.5" drives? Historically, I lean towards WD.