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Reliability of Hitachi drives

neutralizer

neutralizer

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I want to buy a Hitachi SATA drive and wondering since most of their hdds come from the IBM Deathstar line, I was wondering has their reliability gone up since those days?
 
I don't know, but I just had one crash on me... Took down my RAID 5 array, but I was able to save everything... Yeah RAID 5. I definitely won't ever be doing RAID 0 with them, that's for damn sure.
Tas.
 
Personally I feel pretty good about Hitachi's reliability and won't mind getting one. The deathstar episode was ages ago (5yrs?). I think seagates are frequently recommended here but I'd say the latest Hitachi's are faster, just as reliable if not more.
 
Originally posted by: neutralizer
I want to buy a Hitachi SATA drive and wondering since most of their hdds come from the IBM Deathstar line, I was wondering has their reliability gone up since those days?
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Quality has improved greatly since Hitachi has taken over, my 7k250 is a great drive. I really punish it, I live in florida and when I leave for a while I turn my Airconditioner off but leave my computer on. My 7k250 Runs like a champ and has no problems even though the ambient air temperature gets to 110° F. Get a retail drive if you decide to get one.


It has been complely redesigned since the 75GXP. So it is an entirely differant animal.
 
Originally posted by: orangat
Personally I feel pretty good about Hitachi's reliability and won't mind getting one. The deathstar episode was ages ago (5yrs?). I think seagates are frequently recommended here but I'd say the latest Hitachi's are faster, just as reliable if not more.
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Every company involved in manufacturing makes a blunder from time to time, the 75GXP was IBM's mistake. Time has passed and we should not focus on something from that long ago. Remeber the Ford Explorer? I would not buy one based on the old design but I would buy a newer one with the Independant Suspension and all of the Digital Yaw Nannies on board.
 
The Deathstar fiasco appeared to be worse than it actually was. There were a slew of defective drives, one model, that were going to OEM's (Dell, HP et cetera). The OEM's tested and rejected the drives, then management decided to repackage the drives for retail sale knowing they were no good. I guess most of the people responsible are long gone.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Every company involved in manufacturing makes a blunder from time to time, the 75GXP was IBM's mistake. Time has passed and we should not focus on something from that long ago. Remeber the Ford Explorer? I would not buy one based on the old design but I would buy a newer one with the Independant Suspension and all of the Digital Yaw Nannies on board.
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Exactly, IBM made GREAT drives in the late 90s, fast and reliable as heck. Then they had 1 single bad model line in 2000 and suddenly all the insta-experts are saying Hitachi is subpar which doesn't make sense.
I think the latest Hitachi is definitely faster, probably cooler and quieter than seagates.

My seagate 7200.7 drive now has frequent dips throughout the entire range in its transfer rate test which indicates some weak sectors all over, and 45 rellocated sectors. And only light-duty usage the entire time. It has poor-average SMART fitness.

 
I haven't heard too many bad things about Hitachi. I posted about the drive failing to let people know, not so much as to dis Hitachi, but to see if there are many occurances of it happening. I haven't really heard anything else though. Maxtor on the other hand, I wouldn't feed to my computer at all.
Tas.
 
Hitachi is fine now. The DeathStar run was a bad one and gave them a bad rep, but I'd put Hitachi above Maxtor and just below WD and SeaGate.
 
No problems from my T7K250 (160GB SATA II NCQ). Been installed for 6 months. Read noise is a bit louder than I prefer.
 
I forgot to add, the newer T7k250 Hitachi's are the one to get instead of the older 7k250/400 because its cooler, faster in reviews.
 
It all goes in cycles, I remember Maxtors bad models, I remember seagates bad models, I remember WD's bad models and I remember IBM's bad models. They all have bad models every now and then, it's just the way things are, if you want to avoid the bad models invest in SCSI, the SCSI drives are designed and warrantied for a lot longer life.
 
Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
I haven't heard too many bad things about Hitachi. I posted about the drive failing to let people know, not so much as to dis Hitachi, but to see if there are many occurances of it happening. I haven't really heard anything else though. Maxtor on the other hand, I wouldn't feed to my computer at all.
Tas.
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Well personally i did get some of the deathstars i mean i got one it died and i got it replaced under warranty and it died too. The third time same thing so i gave up and got maxtor and i havent had 1 single problem with them for 7 years. Dont know why people here dont like maxtor though i prefer western digital or hitachi. Hitachi are silent and fast
 
Originally posted by: Azarx
Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
I haven't heard too many bad things about Hitachi. I posted about the drive failing to let people know, not so much as to dis Hitachi, but to see if there are many occurances of it happening. I haven't really heard anything else though. Maxtor on the other hand, I wouldn't feed to my computer at all.
Tas.
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Well personally i did get some of the deathstars i mean i got one it died and i got it replaced under warranty and it died too. The third time same thing so i gave up and got maxtor and i havent had 1 single problem with them for 7 years. Dont know why people here dont like maxtor though i prefer western digital or hitachi. Hitachi are silent and fast
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Well, I started out with a few Maxtors, and I just hated them. So I refuse to use them now. I had Western Digital PATA drives for a long time, and never had a problem with them. Hopefully this was a single occurance and everything. If it isn't, and I have another Hitachi drive make my array go critical, I'll start the transition back to WD drives.
Tas.
 
Thanks guys. I might bite for a Hitachi drive if its a good deal, but I'll probably go with tried and true WD and Seagate... mmm... WD Raptor (piece of mind for 5 years).
 
I agree with what googer said and even more so with rahvin. I can't recall having a drive related problem since going SCSI. I like SCSI for my working drives and a nice big cheap PATA drive in a FW enclosure for backup...

.bh.
 
I got burnt big on the 75GXP ordeal as well. Lost one from a raid0 at home, lost FOUR over the course of a couple of years on a client's server. Warranty replacements (REFURBS) died in short order.

I do have a Hitachi 160g that I picked up a couple of years back and it seems to be pretty solid. Been running it in my main wkstn since then. Definitely a quiet drive. Sure miss my raid0 tho. But, I've been picking up cheap Seagate 200s like candy lately so a rebuild is definitely in the near future, after which the Hit 160 will be moved over to backup duty.
 
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