$68 1TB Internal Hard Drive

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Saw that HITACHI Deskstar 1TB Internal Hard Drive OEM is $68 TODAY FROM 1:00PM PT to 11:59PT at newegg..


What comments do you guys have about Hitachi and this particular hard drive? At such a great price I might have to sway from Western Digital just this once.
 
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I think the Deskstar has a nickname of "deathstar" because of a high failure rate. at least that's what I heard about 7 years ago.
 
grphx7 said:
I think the Deskstar has a nickname of "deathstar" because of a high failure rate. at least that's what I heard about 7 years ago.
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Welcome to 2010.

This drive works great, I own the 16mb cache version for a year or so, very reliable.
 
Does anyone know how many platters this has? Was about to buy the Samsung 1tb because I read it has 2 platters.

Are these drives fast? I had a 1tb green drive and the pause before opening a file was driving me nuts.
 
I like to sum the percentages of 1 and 2 egg reviews on newegg to get a very rough estimate of the amount of trouble people are having with a product. This estimate is far from perfect, but I've found it to provide a useful indicator of trouble.

Looking at 1TB drives with at least 100 reviews, the trouble percentages are:

10% WD Caviar Black
28% Seagate 7200.12
7% Samsung F3
10% Hitachi Deskstar
10% WD RE3
25% Seagate ES.2
16% Seagate Barracuda LP

Judging from this list, the Hitachi looks okay, as does the samsung and the WDs, but the Seagates look to be troublesome.
 
pizza said:
Does anyone know how many platters this has? Was about to buy the Samsung 1tb because I read it has 2 platters.

Are these drives fast? I had a 1tb green drive and the pause before opening a file was driving me nuts.
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These new Hitachi drives have two platters.
 
grphx7 said:
I think the Deskstar has a nickname of "deathstar" because of a high failure rate. at least that's what I heard about 7 years ago.
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good job FUD-boy. nevermind the deathstar era was under IBM, before they sold the storage division off to Hitachi about 8+ years ago. Everything that Hitachi's produced since then has been stellar, and they probably should've just changed the model name since that's really the only thing they have in common with the bad rep of the old IBM drives.

@OP: I've had 24 x 1TB Hitachi's in a raid array running 24x7 for 2 years and never had as much as a bad sector develop on any drive. I also own 52 of the 2Tb model, as well as about 10 of the 500Gb. Maybe I've just been lucky, but needless to say I've never had to RMA a Hitachi drive- whereas I find myself replacing at least 1 Western Digital per month- and I'm talking new drives only a few months old.
 
For this price, definitely in for 1. Will be perfect for storage.
 
Mine arrived today (retail box, 7K1000.C w/ 32MB cache), and it's fairly quiet for spin and seek noise and doesn't vibrate much at all. It's already passed the long SMART test and is being scanned for defects by HDAT2. I'm using an ancient computer and a SATA-PATA based on a Sun Plus chip, and the Hitachi hasn't locked up yet locked up with it, as it had the WD, Seagate, and Samsung drives, in anywhere from a minute to 5 hours.

XbitLabs said the 1TB 7K1000.C uses two 500GB platters, which could partially explain why its power consumption is among the lowest for 7200 RPM 3.5" HDs. XbitLabs said this drive was slow for reads and writes of small packets of data, < 32KB, but pretty good otherwise.
 
grphx7 said:
I think the Deskstar has a nickname of "deathstar" because of a high failure rate. at least that's what I heard about 7 years ago.
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Using that logic my Core i7's, i5's, and i3's, as well as my Porsche are 100% unreliable because none existed 7 years ago.
 
Just got the drive. Pretty much no noise. Works fine. We'll see.
 
odditory said:
@OP: I've had 24 x 1TB Hitachi's in a raid array running 24x7 for 2 years and never had as much as a bad sector develop on any drive. I also own 52 of the 2Tb model, as well as about 10 of the 500Gb. Maybe I've just been lucky, but needless to say I've never had to RMA a Hitachi drive- whereas I find myself replacing at least 1 Western Digital per month- and I'm talking new drives only a few months old.
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That's good to know. What do you think is a good price point for the Hitachi 2TB's ? They are selling at $139 most of the time. Have they ever drop below $120?
 
Whats a good price? Jump on one now! How low do you need to wait before you purchase one. I have got mine from around 149-129. You just can't get any better for that price.. Nice solid drives and HUGE storage. I will keep buying them and filling up my Norco case.
 
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