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Hitachi Hard Drives

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foodfightr

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Hitachi has lower latency and faster seek times than WD and at the same price point it also offers NCQ. I'm not familiar with hitachi as far as computer equipment goes, but I know they are currently leading the market in new television technologies.

How would you rate this brand? Probably no seagate, but .9 isn't currently available.

EDIT: I'm not wondering how you feel about NCQ or "SATA II." I'm just curious as to how you feel about the hitachi brand name on a hard drive.
 
I regularly use Hitachi. The T7K250 is probably one of the best hard disk drives available right now. I have never had one fail, and they are fast and usually cheaper than the rest. Best bang for the buck.
 
They are decent, but I prefer Samsung for cheap, quiet, with good performance.

My current irrational-prejudice ranking is (best to worst)
Seagate, Samsung > WD, Hitachi > Maxtor
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
They are decent, but I prefer Samsung for cheap, quiet, with good performance.

My current irrational-prejudice ranking is (best to worst)
Seagate, Samsung > WD, Hitachi > Maxtor
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I agree the Samsung is the quietest of the bunch, followed by the Seagate. BUT, the Samsung is not the cheapest. Hitachi is. Interesting enought that the Hitachi smokes most of them by a good margin as well.

My current irrational ranking from best to worst (factoring in price AND speed AND reliability):

Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, ........................ Maxtor

I think you can tell that I won't even touch a Maxtor.
 
They're good. They've come a long way from when they took over IBM's part of the hard drive market. I believe in Hitachi and my next hard drive will be the 500GB with NCQ and SATAII 🙂
 
I have the Hitachi and Samsung. I did a lot of research at the time and settled on these two.

My RAID setup has 4 Hitachi T7K250 160gb drives, and using these helped my computer score the 9th fastest time EVER tested on PCMark05. :Q So they can't be too bad.. AND they were only 85bucks each.
 
Hitcachi's implementation of NCQ is some of the best and most efficiant in the buisness. It out performs all the competition and is the only drive to add a small boost to single user performance when NCQ is turned on.
 
hmm, I think I am still skeptical about Hitachi because of the deskstar reputation

LOL

experienced 2 crappy drives myself

 
I've had two 7K250 and one T7K250 drives that I've had no problems with for many months. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.
 
Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
They are decent, but I prefer Samsung for cheap, quiet, with good performance.

My current irrational-prejudice ranking is (best to worst)
Seagate, Samsung > WD, Hitachi > Maxtor
Click to expand...


I agree the Samsung is the quietest of the bunch, followed by the Seagate. BUT, the Samsung is not the cheapest. Hitachi is. Interesting enought that the Hitachi smokes most of them by a good margin as well.

My current irrational ranking from best to worst (factoring in price AND speed AND reliability):

Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, ........................ Maxtor

I think you can tell that I won't even touch a Maxtor.
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Not so. Actually Samsung is the quietest of the drives followed by Hitachi (certainly the T7K250 series vs comparing current generation). What people tend to find is that the Seagates have noisy seaks (SATA ones) and going from 7200.7 to 7200.8 it actually became quite significant.

The T7K250 might actually be even quieter than the Samsung P120s - put it this way _ certainly can't hear mine even under heavy accessing load unless i stick my ears right down at its level at unbder less than 2 feet. Even then it's pretty quiet and the noise is a nice unintrussive 'mummering' as I'd call it.


 
I have the T7K250.... AND, i must also admit it is quiet (i have a silenced system, and it does not stand out) and an INCREDIBLE PERFORMER. I would put not hard drive company above this paticlar hitachi except for seagate. SAMSUNG's low nosie is OVERRATED and doesn't touch the t7k250's performance
 
My T7K250 came with AAM disabled, it's a bit noisy in this mode
Once I set it to Quiet AAM, it is totally silent
 
I haven't bought a HDD in awhile, but when I saw this thread title, the first thing that came to mind was IBM deathstars. I never owned one, but I've heard all about them. I realize that it is unfair to avoid Hitachi b/c of the deathstars, but it is my gut reaction. However, seeing how many of you have been happy with your Hitachi HDD, I think I'll consider them the next time i buy a HDD. I've also been hearing good things about the Samsung HDD, also worth a look.
 
Dunno. Hitachi seems ok for the 100 or so laptops at work, but unless it was free I wouldnt risk using it for my personal computers. Free, maybe for a non critical PC, like for HTPC or so.
 
IBM ..... Hitachi ...completely different companies at completely different moments in time regards hardrives.

All I can say is don't disregard a great piece of technology whatever it is just because of a bad drive from a (different) company a long time in the past.
 
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