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I'm done with Hitachi drives!!!

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sjandrewbsme

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I know every HDD maker has duds from time to time, but I have had 100% failure rate on the 5 hitachi drives I've had the misfortune to buy. I'm done...

I've literally had one almost catch on fire (a surface mount chip literally burned on the PCB).

All different models, different mobos, different interfaces, different wall outlets - the only two things they have in common is they're Hitachi and they've ALL died (physical errors confirmed by DFT - and the firestarter model).

The ironic thing is that I had an IBM (Hitachi bought their HDD's) Deathstar drive that never gave me fits.

/rant
 
I had that problem, until I changed my power setup... HDs fialed like crazy til I went with a dual PSU setup with an UPS feeding them power. Dramatically reduced my failure rates.
 
I've had a couple of Hitachis, but none of them failed me. The ones that failed me are a Seagate 7200.8(overheating problems with one of the chips) and a Maxtor 200GB that soon developed bad sectors, but it's still in use.
 
I've been running two Hitachi's for two years now and no problems.

I was apprehensive at first since these are basically DeathStar(which I had 3 RMA's, all failed within 3 months) descendants, but mine have been running great.
 
I used to swear by the IBM deskstar drives always bought and use I have a hitachi and the problems started. I am seagate now and all good.
 
I've had two Maxtors and one has died (I've long read those are thw worst drives for reliability).

The latest dead Hitachi is in the same case as three other WD 80GB Cavair units. They're still working fine (and like 1.5 years older). They've all been literally in the same case - only the Hitachi has died.
 
I have never heard of 5 drives from the same manufacturer go bad, but I agree. No more Hitachi's for you.
 
I figured that the first 3 went bad because thy were in a TiVo box. That is a rough environment for drives. But, these first three Hitachi drives I've since replaced with WD Caviar units that have been running for about a year without incident. The other two dead Hitachi drives have been in normal PCs.

I used to build every PC I built with IBM drives (even during the deathstar days) and I NEVER had problems. I'm batting 0% with Hitachi.
 
I just had a Hitachi 7K160 DOA (wouldn't spin up) but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as my 7K80 has been great for me so far. But then I don't allow my drives to get very hot. Except for a couple days ago when my IBM Ultrastar 10k got up to 47 before I noticed that I hadn't plugged in my HDD fan.

.bh.
 
After more than 20 years of computing, I've seen Seagate come and go. But the one that always stays online and still kicking is WD. Maxtor had their share of bad batch of hdd too. And I'm quite sure WD did too. But for some reason WD is still here and still kicking. This is the reason I stay WD.
 
What do you mean by "Seagate come and go?". They haven't gone anywhere. If anything, the 7200.10 drives have given them the one thing they've lacked in the PATA/SATA market segment: performance.
 
Are you sure you're not experiencing brown/black outs constantly? Do you have a UPS in place? Do you have an adequate power supply?
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Are you sure you're not experiencing brown/black outs constantly? Do you have a UPS in place? Do you have an adequate power supply?
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Good questions. Wrong voltages can wreck havoc on hardware. Some hardware is more sensitive to voltage changes than others. When I ventured into this thread a few days ago I figured it would turn into a fan boy screaming match so I stayed clear. Having 5 hard drives failing from the same company leads me to believe this is more of a user issues than a manufacture issue. I hate some companies but rarely will you have a failure rate so high.

I would start by checking voltages at the wall. If you're having brown outs, moving from socket to socket on the wall does nothing. I would also check to see if you have too many items plugged into the outlets you are using. A simple volt meter is handy for this type of operation. If you are using a UPS, check the voltages going into the unit and coming out of the unit. I had a UPS go bad and it took most of my computer with it. It pumped out 90v and took out most of my hardware before I noticed what happened. Just some ideas.
 
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