Dear Hitachi

[Freejack2]

Please stop making hard drives. It's clear you couldn't make a reliable drive to save your lives. You are the Yugo of the hard drive industry. Please close this division of your company so that I never have to come across the piles of crap you call hard drives.
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I've seen more Hitachi laptop drives die than I care to think about. Add another one to that list today. Not to mention the 80gb 3.5" hdd from a couple of weeks ago.
Pure garbage. I hope Hitachi goes out of business.

 

[Cerb]

They won't read this.

Anyway, Seagate, Samsung, and WD all do fine jobs.

 

[flamingelephant]

They also sold classified submarine propeller milling machines to the USSR back in the day...... they are criminals

 

[wasserkool]

lol at this thread

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: flamingelephant
They also sold classified submarine propeller milling machines to the USSR back in the day...... they are criminals

They're... Japanese.

 

[sniperruff]

IIRC IBM made the fastest hard drives back in the days before 8mb cache drives came out.

 

[kogase]

By the way, Hitachi got it's harddrive business from IBM, a company notorious for unreliable drives.

 

[TriStar]

I :heart: my Maxtor! :roll:

 

[Kenji4861]

Just stop buying them and if their quality really does suck and everyone stops buying them.. they'll have no choice but to close their divison.

 

[flamingelephant]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: flamingelephant
They also sold classified submarine propeller milling machines to the USSR back in the day...... they are criminals

They're... Japanese.

Classified US submarine propeller milling machines.........

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
IIRC IBM made the fastest hard drives back in the days before 8mb cache drives came out.

Yep and as long as you kept them cool (IE no overclocking your system with good ventilation) they were reliable.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: flamingelephant

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: flamingelephant
They also sold classified submarine propeller milling machines to the USSR back in the day...... they are criminals

They're... Japanese.

Classified US submarine propeller milling machines.........

How is this a crime? Are they violating some international law?

 

[Tu13erhead]

Originally posted by: wasserkool
lol at this thread

 

[flamingelephant]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: flamingelephant

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: flamingelephant
They also sold classified submarine propeller milling machines to the USSR back in the day...... they are criminals

They're... Japanese.

Classified US submarine propeller milling machines.........

How is this a crime? Are they violating some international law?

Yes, they did break the law when they did it.... lead to a boycott of Hitachi products in the early 80's I believe....

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: flamingelephant

After doing a quick search, I think it's actually Toshiba who sold secrets to the Reds.

 

[sonz70]

Dear Freejack2


We make hardrives, people buy them. And keep buying them for a reason. For this fact, we have decided that the problem you are having is usererror. Please cease from using any more computer parts, or pieces.


Sincerely

- Hitachi PR Rep

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: sniperruff
IIRC IBM made the fastest hard drives back in the days before 8mb cache drives came out.

Yep and as long as you kept them cool (IE no overclocking your system with good ventilation) they were reliable.

I've had 4 friends IBM 80GB HD's die! Mine in my other machine clicks SO badly but I don't care about the stuff ont hat HD...

I've had 4 WD drives go funky and die on me but I still went with them as they had good CS. My last HD was a Seagate and 'hopefuly' I won't get any problems out of that.

Koing

 

[wasserkool]

Dear Freejack2,

WE mighty Nihon Jin the land of the rising sun sell you hard drive that break often is because we want revenge for u American-jin nuking us 60 years ago, hence we nuke ur data by implementing patent-penting nihon HD self nuke feature when the HD is almost full.


Sincerely

Hitachiyika
Hitachi Sr. Data Self-Destruct R&D Engineer

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: sonz70
Dear Freejack2


We make hardrives, people buy them. And keep buying them for a reason. For this fact, we have decided that the problem you are having is usererror. Please cease from using any more computer parts, or pieces.


Sincerely

- Hitachi PR Rep

Actually, people DON'T buy them. In the past 9 months, I've never heard someone say they just bought a Hitatchi drive. I've heard everyone else, but never a Hitatchi. But I keep seeing them in prefab machines.

 

[Freejack2]

Prefabs are the only place you'll see them. I'd never willingly buy one again. The one that just failed was from a Dell laptop at work and the other one was from a visionman server that the drive went kaput about an hour after we finished setting it up as a server. Needless to say we were pissed...

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Originally posted by: SchadenfrohYep and as long as you kept them cool (IE no overclocking your system with good ventilation) they were reliable.

I never take any chances with my >= 7200rpm drives. They always have some form of active cooling. Have a reasonably varied mix of drives in the fileserver (5 Seagates, 3 Maxtors, 4 Hitachis, 3 WDs) and all of them have been running strong 24/7 for the last 2 years. I did get burned badly by the 75GXP and 60GXP, but thankfully the new Hitachis look good. Add a 3 year warranty compared to WD's 1 year, and it looks to be a good buy.

 

[overst33r]

i just got a hitachi 160GB for a song, very pleased.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: sonz70
Dear Freejack2

We make hardrives, people buy them. And keep buying them for a reason. For this fact, we have decided that the problem you are having is usererror. Please cease from using any more computer parts, or pieces.

Sincerely

- Hitachi PR Rep

Actually, people DON'T buy them. In the past 9 months, I've never heard someone say they just bought a Hitatchi drive. I've heard everyone else, but never a Hitatchi. But I keep seeing them in prefab machines.

I bought one.

It works fine. 6 months and no errors.
HOWEVER, both of the WD Cavier drives I bought died within 2 months. The 74GB Raptor has been in my system for 2 months with no problems.

 

[tami]

Dear Freejack2

I would like your harddrivve and to pay for this item via CHECK, you
know my address is in USA,but right now i'm in nigeria,i was sent there
on a church mission,and i want to give it to the head pastor as a
gift, so i will like to know if you can ship it to nigeria,i dont
mind paying any amount for the shipping cost,pls if you can do this
for me i'll be very grateful.if you accept kindly send your full name
and address which am going to send the check to. Here's the shipping
address.

Sincerely,
Rohan Mariana.

 

[flexy]

i <3 my Hitachi SATA 7k250..still runs fine and super fast.