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Hitachi GST hard drives

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Kenazo

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I'm looking at Hitachi hard drives and they seem to be about 15% cheaper than a comparable hard drive from a different brand. Is there a reason for this price discrepency? are the drives going to kick the bucket after a year, compared to say 5 years for a seagate?

Oh yeah, forgot to add, the model I was looking at was the Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP, a 90gB.
 
Many people dislike HGST/IBM due to the problems the 75GXP series experienced a couple of years back, but the 120GXP and onwards have been fine(well as fine as IDE drives are these days).

However, the 180GXP is one generation old, the successor is the Deskstar 7K250, it's currently the fastest 7200 RPM IDE drive, if by an extremely slim margin.
 
but the 180GXP is considered to be a decent hard drive? It's for a customer, so I don't want their computer to need a new hard drive 5 days outside of warranty (of course I realize this can happen w/ any drive)
 
I would definitely NOT say the 7K250 drives are faster than IDE drives by a 'slim margin.' I had a WD 80Gig SE drive and I went to a Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB SATA hard drive and I notice a HUGE difference between them. If you compare it to a Seagate I had, it is even bigger. One example being it took 30 seconds for the seagate to load a big map in Desert Combat, while it takes 12 seconds now with the 7K250. It also boots up XP Pro faster, 3.9 seconds vs 7 or 8 seconds for both of the previous drives. Also, the HDTach timings are very fast for one drive, with the average being above 55Mb/s and the burst rate being near 120Mb/s (115 I believe was the number). Even on relatively terrible machines, i've seen it being at least 113Mb/s with an average near 48-50Mb/second. To me, it is noticably faster than the other drives out there. If you go to storagereview.com and compare drives side-by-side, you will notice this as well. I would recommend a Deskstar 7K250 over the one you select, because they are fast, silent and a great deal. They also come with three year warranties, even the bare/OEM ones (I have one, and I called up Hitachi to check because that didn't seem right, but it is!), and have great stability. I would never think this drive would fail anytime soon, and is as quiet as my Seagate drive was.

To think lowly of the drive division after all this time and after it came under new management is pretty unfair. Like he said, that was only one model, not all of them...its just that if someone has a problem with one model, the rest of the world condemns them (some enthusiasts do, at least). I've had this drive since they released their Deskstar 7K250 line and it clearly isn't slowing down to a halt anytime soon.
 
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Winning by a couple of percent in most cases, winning a few by ~10%, and losing a few, that's a pretty slim margin to me.
Two good reasons why people always think their new harddrive is WAY faster than their old one would be a freash install, as well as the ever powerful placbo effect.
 
How is it, in my case, not faster by more than a slim margin? I gave exact times in applications and games that I use.
12 seconds vs 20-30 is NOT a placebo effect and 4 seconds vs 7 is not either. I said that i've had it since they released the new line of HDs, which has been months and months. Initially it was 2 seconds, but now it is 4 seconds, and it was at first 9 seconds, but now it is 12. Unless you think I do a fresh install of Windows XP Pro EVERY WEEK, I wouldn't blame that as the reason for its speed. Some are fast on some systems, some aren't as fast on others.

I never ever said it was newly installed drive. Don't try and paint the drive as being no better than the rest, because it is really better than the others i've used.

Kenazo, the 180GXP is just fine and so are these 7K250 drives. I think you should just go for either one that you want, and I don't know what the warranty is on that drive but I am liking the 3 year warranty on these 7K250 drives. You can't close with either one 😉.
 
Im not, I've got one myself, and I rather like HGST drives since they tend to be both speedy and quiet.

However, 20-30 seconds to 12 seconds is NOT possible from just changing from another high end 7200 RPM drive(WD2500JB, 180GXP, etc), there's simply not a big enough difference given the rest of the system, including OS and such is the same.
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Im not, I've got one myself, and I rather like HGST drives since they tend to be both speedy and quiet.

However, 20-30 seconds to 12 seconds is NOT possible from just changing from another high end 7200 RPM drive(WD2500JB, 180GXP, etc), there's simply not a big enough difference given the rest of the system, including OS and such is the same.
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If you compare it to a Seagate I had, it is even bigger. One example being it took 30 seconds for the seagate to load a big map in Desert Combat, while it takes 12 seconds now with the 7K250.
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I didn't say it was with some high-end 7200 rpm hard drive, I said it was from a Seagate Barracuda drive. Seagate drives are really slow, so you'd obviously see a difference there. Yes, it reallly was from 20-30 to 12 seconds, considering Battlefield 1942 maps load really really slow. If you must know, the Western Digital loads it in 14 seconds, but I wasn't talking about that. I was giving him an example of some exact figures of REAL applications (not some synthetic fileserver benchmark) taking off with the drive. It also shaved quite a bit of time off of my video encoding as well, probably 10-15 minutes. On a graph, they may not seem too big but in real life they make a significant impact on the time I have to spend in front of my machine.
 
True, the Cudas aren't exactly screamers by todays standards.

Im guessing maybe you misunderstood my first post, when I said "it's currently the fastest 7200 RPM IDE drive, if by an extremely slim margin." I meant it compared to other top end IDE drives, such as the DMax, WD-JB's, etc.
Compared to a Baracuda, especially a V or older, it will of course be quite a beast 🙂
 
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