Warning: Hitachi Hard Drives!!! - Page 2

Millay · 19-05-2005, 08:26

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...

Nanook · 19-05-2005, 13:21

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

with no problems so far....... (searches for the "tempting fate" smilie)

ian@huth · 19-05-2005, 13:35

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.

ikthius · 19-05-2005, 15:42

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

zoombini · 19-05-2005, 16:05

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).

Graham M · 19-05-2005, 17:18

Bit silly really.

Hector's House · 20-05-2005, 06:07

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

**Paul** · 20-05-2005, 06:12

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

zoombini · 20-05-2005, 08:40

Mine is still going strong after a few years.

20-05-2005, 09:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

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

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!

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).

n1ckbarker · 01-06-2005, 11:42

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...

01-06-2005, 13:32

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.

01-06-2005, 13:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by n1ckbarker

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...

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

Kuragari · 02-06-2005, 05:34

like most others here, i stand firmly behind seagate

zoombini · 02-06-2005, 09:17

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

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.