Warning: Hitachi Hard Drives!!!
 

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Just a warning Guys and Gals,
I`ve just had my third Hitachi Hard Drive fail in 12 Month`s.!!!!!!!
I`ve had Two 160 Gig and 1 80 Gig fail over the last year!
I never used to have this problem when it was Western Digital!!!!!!!!!
More RMA time coming up for me, The drives just seem to lose the data all of a sudden! Be Warned.

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Bugger i got one coming in the post this week. :eek:

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Maxtor can go to hell too. Same kinda story!

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I hope you`ll be lucky mate, I certainly won`t be buying another one!:confused:
I`ve used quite a lot of Seagate drives in systems i`ve built and never had any problems at all with them. The Barracuda`s are pretty good in my opinion.

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Always have prefered Seagates even though one had to go back to Holland for repairs. Seem better made, better packaged and to be honest I've had Maxtors go bad very quickly in the past :(

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Personally I wouldnt touch Hitachi or fugitsu drives ever again with a barge pole.

I now swear by Seagate drives and have found them strong quality and very efficient.

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hitachi are just rebadged ibm deathstars arent they? i've got an 80GB paperweigh one of 'em! :erm:

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Wifes laptop hitachi failed about 6 months ago............

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Samsungs are pretty good, had 5 so far (in various machines) and not one has shown any signs of failing. I've had 1 maxtor fail on me and one last for 4 years. At work the highest fail rate is probably with Seagates, but that's in combination with Packard Bell machines so that pretty much explains that!

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Yep Hitachis are rebadged IBM drives. I replaced my old Toshiba drive in my laptop that failed with a 40gb Travelstar, at least its not the desktop equivalent, a Deathstar (hmm, isnt Starwars out tomorrow ;))

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The old IBM drives used to be very good, I had a 15gb one which survived a good hammering but the larger capacity disk were totally unreliable. Sure they were fast but what good is a fast disk if it gives up after a few months. I had a 40gb go on me after less than two weeks :Yikes: . I also had another 60gb IBM disk go belly up three times in one year causing me to lose all my data three times :mad: I was going to bin it but decided to use the three year warranty and get a replacement which I now use for backups. I did read something about the large capacity IBM disks that they were not designed to be left on for a long period of time so if the PC is on for only a few hours they seem to be reasonably okay, that's why I use it as a backup because it's on for less than half an hour. As most people seem to agree, do not touch Hitachi as they are just IBM disks :td:

Seagate disks seem to be the most reliable followed by Western Digital. I have both and not had a single problem with either one.

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Havn't IBM sorted out the problems with the deathstars now?

Are they still crashing etc?

Are people still using the deathstar in servers & wondering why they fail?

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I've had mine for 2 yrs and it's fine.

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Yep, I've been lucky though - my 60GB IBM Deathstar has been running for 5 years and no problems yet! :)

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I've been lucky as well. Mine failed within warranty, and I got a full refund which went towards a seagate :)

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Ive been running ibm/hitachi drives for years no problem, brought a maxtor 120gb model last year.. died in two weeks.. I think its just luck of the draw with hardrives whatever manufacturer they will have bad batches...

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I've used an 80gig one for three months so far, PC is on for 18 hrs a day every day, defragged once a week:angel: with no problems so far....... (searches for the "tempting fate" smilie) :eek: :Sprint:

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Having sold many thousands of drives over the years we found IBM drives to be the most reliable, Seagate coming out bottom of the list. There were odd batches of IBM drives that were dodgy but these were few and far apart. Same probably for drives from all manufacturers with batch faults possibly being caused by poor handling in transit. Still have a few odd IBM drives that date back as far as 1993 (oldest is a 528Mb drive) that are still going strong, some of which were run 24/7 for several years.

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I had a Hitachi Deskstar (IBM) and when I was doing a backup, it went belly up, and crashed. I lost all my data, but mainly 2 programs which I made, which I really needed, and want back. but alas, it is not to be, i don't think.

ik

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If you read the technical information on the Deskstar range, you woul dse that it states that they are not to be used in servers & should be powered down every 24 hours.

When that does not they overheat & that is what causes the crashes (IMO).

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Bit silly really.

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I've got 3 deathstars and they are working fine, had them about 5+ years

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I had two deathstars about 3/4 years ago - I think one lasted a whole month - the other almost 18 months ... :erm:

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Mine is still going strong after a few years.

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Seagate are the only ones I buy. Superb quality, perform well, not to mention a 5 year warranty as standard (even on OEM drives). I still have a Seagate in this system being used by BOINC that is about 4 years old! :disturbd:

Fujitsu i've had too many problems with, 2 replacement HDDs for them for my laptop in 14 months. The Hitachi one that is in it now doesn't seem to be having a problem though.

Quantum I also find to be a good make, even though they no longer manufacture hard drives now (I still have a Quantum Fireball 8GB HDD in this system, for backup and still running fine).

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I hope you find this piece of advice helpful.

"heat is hardwares enemy" no matter what it is, cpu, gfx card, memory. All these items will fail prematurely if not cooled effectively. So hard disks are not exempt from this theory. Infact hard drives are more suseptible to heat damage as they have both circuit boards, and moving parts. Ive always stuck to my theory, and as a result have various makes/models of hard disk, never fail. Right now im touching wood, as you know what murphy's law is all about. Fans are relativly cheap, and if cool air is passing over a drive, its amazing how much heat is removed. I have Samsung/Maxtor drives on 24x7 with 3 fans blowing air, they are cold to the touch.

I hate the stupid CRAZY FROG...

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Also with the prices of hdd coming down now they are expendable

Lets face it, theres not much cheaper in the way of storage meduims is there? and with the availablilty of Dual Layer DVD's we have NO excuse not to back up our data.

The warranties are becoming less and less now also, all I say is dont expect too much and you wont be disappointed, I've had so many HDD's from quantum fireballs to seagate medallists fail on me and no manufacturer is any better than each other, they all make drives that can and will break.

The only difference is how much you are willing to pay for a HDD.

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:welcome: to the forum ,,(just beating paulyoung666 to it)good first post

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like most others here, i stand firmly behind seagate

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noooo, like most others here, I sit behind a monitor :D

They all have horror stories, bad episodes in thier past that people do not forget.

It all comes down to price, size, warranty, reliability & back to price.