creepcolony
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are hitachi deskstars more reliable than the old ibm ones? i have an 80gb one in my comp that's been running about a year now and i'm starting to think i might have to backup some of my files.
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hitachi deskstar
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Hitachi drives are excellent.
The 60GXP and 75GXP had an ABNORMAL design defect that caused a (significantly) above average failure rate. IBM paid the ultimate price for that mistake - they lost their entire hard drive business (fire-sold to Hitachi in a joint venture deal, Hitachi got 70%, IBM 30%). The stakes are THAT high in the HDD business - anyone who comes out with a bad drive like the "Deathstars" WILL go out of business. As such, most desktop drives are of roughly equal "reliability." Any desktop drive that survives the first month is likely to enjoy a trouble free service life of at least three years. If the drive does fail between three months and three years, it is most likely caused by an environmental hazard such as poor power supply or shock damage rather than a manufacturing defect. Any drive that lasts over five years has performed admirably and deserves retirement.
Seagate stands behind their drives for five years. So does Maxtor with the MaxLine series units and WD with their GD, SD, and SB SKUs. If you want a "reliable" drive, choose from the aforementioned, as their makers stand behind them for five years, and use higher quality components and tighter tolerances during assembly to jusitfy their extra confidence in the units and marketing them as "enterprise" drives. However, they are priced accordingly higher, and even these units do not protect data like backups to removable media do.
The majority of other drives out there (everything except Maxtor retail kits and Hitachi 2MB buffer 7K80 drives) are warranted for three years. Somewhere out there, someone has had bad experiences with one brand, yet someone else swears by that same brand and they have never failed on him. My point? Hard drive "reliability" is extremely difficult to judge. Pick a drive that offers the best mix of quiet, performance, capacity, and value for your application, keep backups of data, and be prepared for a disk failure. They do happen, but not more often on any particular brand. I realize that this is probably more than you wanted to know
The 60GXP and 75GXP had an ABNORMAL design defect that caused a (significantly) above average failure rate. IBM paid the ultimate price for that mistake - they lost their entire hard drive business (fire-sold to Hitachi in a joint venture deal, Hitachi got 70%, IBM 30%). The stakes are THAT high in the HDD business - anyone who comes out with a bad drive like the "Deathstars" WILL go out of business. As such, most desktop drives are of roughly equal "reliability." Any desktop drive that survives the first month is likely to enjoy a trouble free service life of at least three years. If the drive does fail between three months and three years, it is most likely caused by an environmental hazard such as poor power supply or shock damage rather than a manufacturing defect. Any drive that lasts over five years has performed admirably and deserves retirement.
Seagate stands behind their drives for five years. So does Maxtor with the MaxLine series units and WD with their GD, SD, and SB SKUs. If you want a "reliable" drive, choose from the aforementioned, as their makers stand behind them for five years, and use higher quality components and tighter tolerances during assembly to jusitfy their extra confidence in the units and marketing them as "enterprise" drives. However, they are priced accordingly higher, and even these units do not protect data like backups to removable media do.
The majority of other drives out there (everything except Maxtor retail kits and Hitachi 2MB buffer 7K80 drives) are warranted for three years. Somewhere out there, someone has had bad experiences with one brand, yet someone else swears by that same brand and they have never failed on him. My point? Hard drive "reliability" is extremely difficult to judge. Pick a drive that offers the best mix of quiet, performance, capacity, and value for your application, keep backups of data, and be prepared for a disk failure. They do happen, but not more often on any particular brand. I realize that this is probably more than you wanted to know
creepcolony
Limp Gawd
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yep, thanks for the info
If you still want more data, go to http://www.storagereview.com and fill out the drive reliability survey to gain access to the survey results database.