Hitachi Sata drives

[casey]

Anybody have any thoughts on Hitachi Sata drives. I've never used Hitachi and just wondered on their reliability.
It seems they are reasonably priced using Sata II and give a three year warranty. Just looking for some input, Good or bad.

[mylanta]

Well you do realize they are the IBM hard drive division that was known for the IBM Deathstars, the worst hard drives of the last 10 years. IBM got out of the oven by selling the whole division.
That said, I have two 80 gb sata Hitachi drives that are wonderful and in service now over 2 years, but other than 1 Maxtor and 1 Seagate, I have never seen a bad sata drive anyway. Go for it!

[Terry Hanushek]

Larry

and give a three year warranty.

Good

Terry

[mylanta]

I hear you on the 3 year warranty, but the problem is if the drive sucks and they send you another one, it's the one the neighbor sent in a week earlier and it probably isn't fixed right either. When a makers drives start going bad, do you really want to risk your data on refurbed bad drives. That's how Maxtor and IBM "learned"me!

[athomsfere]

I know some guys out there that swear by Hitachi. Wouldn't rule them out.

I wouldn't buy them when there is Seagate, WD, and even Samsung has treated me really good.

With the cult following Hitachi seems to have now though, they must be doing something right.

[mylanta]

I know some guys out there that swear by Hitachi. Wouldn't rule them out.

I wouldn't buy them when there is Seagate, WD, and even Samsung has treated me really good.

With the cult following Hitachi seems to have now though, they must be doing something right.


Hitachi may have solved the IBM problem with sata drives, but Hitachi ide drives are unfixed IBM "Deathstars" and it's such a shame they were the best drives until they developed controller heat problems, and rather than solve them, IBM sold the "problem" to Hitachi.