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Which Hard Drive is the Best?

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Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Yeah, because problems with product lines never get fixed in the passing years. :roll:
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In my case, they don't. Click of death claimed a 60GXP. Then a head crash killed a 120GXP with horrible scraping noises as the head slowly disintegrated the drive surface. Its replacement, a 180GXP, died of the click of death 44 days after I received it. Note, not a single 75GXP in there.

I had also used 4 Hitachi drives in my RAID 5 array. SMART readout showed that two of them were developing bad sectors. That was when I'd had enough of IBM/Hitachi hard drives. I sold them all and never looked back. (And yes, I did make sure that potential buyers were fully aware of the bad sector situation.)

I have Seagate 7200.8 drives now - to be precise, 7 of them in my system.
 
Originally posted by: yosuke188
Do I need to buy a SATA adapter cable since the HDs at ZZF are bare (meaning no cable/manual I think)
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products that say retail have everything needed.

rives that are followed by oem require you to buy mounting screws and a cable.
 
Sorry to say (Seagate fanboi here, dropped $25k on thier SCSI stuff over the past 6 years) the 7200.9 line sucks royal goat ***.

Originally posted by: Jeff7
In my case, they don't. Click of death claimed a 60GXP. Then a head crash killed a 120GXP with horrible scraping noises as the head slowly disintegrated the drive surface. Its replacement, a 180GXP, died of the click of death 44 days after I received it. Note, not a single 75GXP in there.
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The 60GXP 'the' deathstar, the 75GXP was second. At the time, my employer was using 600 60GXP in RAID5 arrays and all but 82 of them died within 9 months. Someone made the mistake of ordering a batch of Hitachi drives after that ( his own fault for not verifying purchase order with me first) and got fired.

Every company runs into QC issues once in a while. Sometimes it's fatal (Maxtor anyone?) The Deskstar 250GB is actually a nice drive with it's 125GB platters. Though I'd have gone for a WD 320GB for $130
 
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