Warning: Hitachi Hard Drives!!!

budwieser · 18-05-2005, 20:28

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.

Roy MM · 18-05-2005, 20:31

Bugger i got one coming in the post this week.

bdav · 18-05-2005, 20:43

Maxtor can go to hell too. Same kinda story!

budwieser · 18-05-2005, 20:45

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Originally Posted by Roy MM

Bugger i got one coming in the post this week.

I hope you`ll be lucky mate, I certainly won`t be buying another one!

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.

Paul K · 18-05-2005, 20:49

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

Halcyon · 18-05-2005, 21:12

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.

bmxbandit · 18-05-2005, 21:43

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

Ramrod · 18-05-2005, 21:49

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

Strzelecki · 18-05-2005, 22:07

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!

Graham M · 18-05-2005, 22:12

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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iron25 · 18-05-2005, 23:11

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

. I also had another 60gb IBM disk go belly up three times in one year causing me to lose all my data three times

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

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

zoombini · 18-05-2005, 23:47

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?

nffc · 18-05-2005, 23:48

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

Richard M · 19-05-2005, 00:30

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Originally Posted by bmxbandit

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

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

danielf · 19-05-2005, 00:36

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Originally Posted by Richard M

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

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