Hitachi 2tb, 32mb cache, 7200 rpm, $154 shipped

[loafbred]

http://www.buy.com/prod/hitachi-des...7200rpm-32mb-desktop/q/loc/101/211236326.html

 

[Mitch101]

Can anyone say something positive about Hitachi service?

The last time I had a few of their drives that went bad they wouldn't warranty any of them.

They even said my one drive was OEM when I still had the box for the drive.

Technically of the 3 Hitachi drives that all failed and should have been within warranty Hitachi wouldn't replace any of them. Because of that I will never purchase any of their drives.

 

[Ronstang]

I am waiting for these to get sub $125 on sale since I need 4 of them.

 

[konakona]

you sure need lots of storage... for a car guy

 

[stevieboyh]

Is that a referral link you have posted? Full URL is this- //detonator.dynamitedata.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?user=u00000687&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fprod%2Fhitachi-deskstar-7k2000-2tb-sata-3gb-s-3-5-7200rpm-32mb-desktop%2Fq%2Floc%2F101%2F211236326

 

[Vikroda]

Is that a referral link you have posted? Full URL is this- //detonator.dynamitedata.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?user=u00000687&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fprod%2Fhitachi-deskstar-7k2000-2tb-sata-3gb-s-3-5-7200rpm-32mb-desktop%2Fq%2Floc%2F101%2F211236326

I believe anandtech automatically adds the detonator.dynamitedata.com thing in front. There was a sticky before the forum switch.

 

[loafbred]

Is that a referral link you have posted? Full URL is this- //detonator.dynamitedata.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?user=u00000687&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fprod%2Fhitachi-deskstar-7k2000-2tb-sata-3gb-s-3-5-7200rpm-32mb-desktop%2Fq%2Floc%2F101%2F211236326

I originally used the tool for adding a link. I just edited it, simply pasting the url in. I've never seen that before.

 

[jjmIII]

I originally used the tool for adding a link. I just edited it, simply pasting the url in. I've never seen that before.

Anandtech adds that stuff to get paid. They should put the sticky back up....an amazing amount of members still don't know about it, and scream REFERRAL !!

 

[GEOrifle]

http://www.buy.com/prod/hitachi-desk...211236326.html

For me it doesn't worth, Sales TAX in NYC.

 

[rugby]

I've got 8 of these in a server with RAID10 and it's so fast it's stupid. Drives are in use 24/7 without problems. I have a couple of spares just in case, but nothing's gone wrong yet. I'm more confident about Hitachi drives in raid arrays than Seagates which just seem to implode when put into raid arrays.

 

[Pardus]

When IBM was part of Hitachi back in 2002, that's when the IBM Deskstar drives also known as "DeathStar" were around. Those drives last 3-6 months before they crashed hard.

Fast forward to 2010.. I still don't trust Hitachi drives that much yet.. My most reliable brands are:

Western Digital Caviar Black Series, 5-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Green Series, 3-year warranty
Samsung Spinpoint Series, 3-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Blue Series, 3-year warranty

Gimme a 2TB WD Black, i'll be all over it.

 

[loafbred]

I've been lucky with hard drives, never having had a failure with any of my own. I still have two heavily-used Hitachi 120gb running without a problem, but I generally prefer Western Digital. I always cool them with a fan if running two or more drives, and usually use a fan with one.

 

[mchammer187]

When IBM was part of Hitachi back in 2002, that's when the IBM Deskstar drives also known as "DeathStar" were around. Those drives last 3-6 months before they crashed hard.

Fast forward to 2010.. I still don't trust Hitachi drives that much yet.. My most reliable brands are:

Western Digital Caviar Black Series, 5-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Green Series, 3-year warranty
Samsung Spinpoint Series, 3-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Blue Series, 3-year warranty

Gimme a 2TB WD Black, i'll be all over it.

I dunno about the WD Green Series especially from what I've read in the Storage Forums

 

[rugby]

Fast forward to 2010.. I still don't trust Hitachi drives that much yet.. My most reliable brands are:

Western Digital Caviar Black Series, 5-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Green Series, 3-year warranty
Samsung Spinpoint Series, 3-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Blue Series, 3-year warranty

So you judge a drive's quality based on the warranty?

 

[FrankB]

Nice price. There have been no sales of the 2TB hard drives lately. I bought this same model at ewiz last week and just arrived today DOA. The way it was packed sucked and I have to pay shipping to RMA the thing

The Hitachi 2TB retail I bought from Microcenter last month is working great though.

 

[KaChingMe]

So you judge a drive's quality based on the warranty?

I didn't read it that way.
However FWIW, I'd agree with that list for reliability of HD MFRs (though a lot can be said of specific drives/sizes. And keeping a drive cool will help a LOT)

Best is what someone else mention (possibly in this thread):
Buy HDs in pairs. Often it's the logic board that gets cooked and you can recover a drive by temporarily swapping that board. (HDs have to be identical down to the firmware)

I have recovered many a HD with this trick. (the hardest part was finding a drive with the identical logic board)

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Switched over from 15x Hitachi 1TBs (first gen, 5-platter design <- industry's first 1TB drive) to 12x Hitachi 2TBs last Nov. Both sets have been running 24/7/365 without a single problem (the 1TBs are about 2.5 years old - not a single bad sector).

...And keeping a drive cool will help a LOT)

You can have too much of a good thing (see the results of the Google study). HDDs (with the more exotic models eg. Cheetah, Raptor, etc. obviously exempted) only need a wee bit of air to stay happy. My 15 drives were installed in Lian-Li 3-in-2 brackets and there was only a single 80x25mm fan per 3 drives.

 

[meddle99]

So you judge a drive's quality based on the warranty?

I do. Why should I trust the drive if the manufacturer doesn't? With the differences in prices so small, why not get the longest warranty?

 

[rugby]

I do. Why should I trust the drive if the manufacturer doesn't? With the differences in prices so small, why not get the longest warranty?

Interesting, do you buy other items based on warranty, say a car?

Keeping the drives cool is crucial, I keep my servers in a datacenter which is around 60 degrees Fahrenheit at the hottest spot.

 

[her209]

When IBM was part of Hitachi back in 2002, that's when the IBM Deskstar drives also known as "DeathStar" were around. Those drives last 3-6 months before they crashed hard.

Fast forward to 2010.. I still don't trust Hitachi drives that much yet.. My most reliable brands are:

Western Digital Caviar Black Series, 5-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Green Series, 3-year warranty
Samsung Spinpoint Series, 3-year warranty
Western Digital Caviar Blue Series, 3-year warranty

Gimme a 2TB WD Black, i'll be all over it.

Same here. Bought IBM drives back then. No longer!

 

[tjaisv]

Can anyone say something positive about Hitachi service?

The last time I had a few of their drives that went bad they wouldn't warranty any of them.

They even said my one drive was OEM when I still had the box for the drive.

Technically of the 3 Hitachi drives that all failed and should have been within warranty Hitachi wouldn't replace any of them. Because of that I will never purchase any of their drives.

What reason(s) did they give for not honoring the warranty?

And did u speak with any customer service higher-ups regarding this?