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hitachi or western digital?

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im going for a 10,000RPM hardrive. hitachi is cheaper. they both have a capacity of 36.7Gb. which would be the better buy
 
Western Digital for sure. They have a far better track record considering that Hitachi now owns IBM's hard drive division in the marketplace. Listen to the Polish man and myself, Western Digital is a FAR safer bet to trust your storage to.

Dark Assassin
 
IBM's HDDs were considered to be pretty much the best thing one could buy before the problems with the Deskstar drives. Those problem have been dealt with, so those HDDs, even though they're now produced by Hitachi, should be just as good as they used to be.
 
Elledan said:
IBM's HDDs were considered to be pretty much the best thing one could buy before the problems with the Deskstar drives. Those problem have been dealt with, so those HDDs, even though they're now produced by Hitachi, should be just as good as they used to be.
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Agreed, you might want to go through the reviews here: http://techreport.com/reviews/page.x?pg=storage
 
IBM HD issues are NOT over. Every single dead notebook drive that I have seen in my office for the past 3 months was made by Hitachi. No one uses their drives in desktops anymore, so I can't vouch for those...
 
....running a pair of Hitachi's in my new machine. Very fast, very quiet.

Regards - B.B.S.
 
The Bryophyte said:
IBM HD issues are NOT over. Every single dead notebook drive that I have seen in my office for the past 3 months was made by Hitachi. No one uses their drives in desktops anymore, so I can't vouch for those...
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they are getting better, but i still won't use them at home. we use 18gig 10000(i think may be 15k)rpm's at work, they fail every few months
 
I'm a IT technician working at a place where we have 600 computers and half of them has the "deathstar" disk inside, of the 60GXP and 120GXP generation. Since a few months, we are remplacing 1-2 dead disks each week. Seeing this make me wonder if the issue is solved.

I will not touch IBM or Hitachi hard disks with a 100 feet pole.
 
i have had my ibm/hitachi drive replaced 2x already.
go with the wd. i have never had a whole lot of problems out of them. (no drive maker is going to be perfect, they all will have some failures. wd and maxtor have had the least for me, ibm and samsung the most.)
 
New HItachi running fast and quiet. Hard to beat for price/performance/capacity.

The problems were with the 60GXP generation, and possible the 75GXP (I forget). The 120GXP and all current models are reliable.
 
i have 2 hitachi's in my system, they run fine, very fast and very quiet. but mine are only 7200rpm, and i havent read much on the 10000rpm hitachi drives. personally id go with the WD since there has been very little reported problems with them
 
Talonz said:
New HItachi running fast and quiet. Hard to beat for price/performance/capacity.

The problems were with the 60GXP generation, and possible the 75GXP (I forget). The 120GXP and all current models are reliable.
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IIRC, the 75GXP was the first generation to exhibit the problems. 60GXP is the next generation and 120GXP is the next one of the 60GXP.
 
Xilikon said:
IIRC, the 75GXP was the first generation to exhibit the problems. 60GXP is the next generation and 120GXP is the next one of the 60GXP.
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Correct. The 75GXP was the drive worst affected, closely followed by the 60GXP. The 120GXP never got anywhere near the 'dead-drives-per-month'-ratio of the former two.types.

Hitachi produces many non-***GXP drives, about which I have heard no bad things.
 
This is a repost of what i said in this post.http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=826671

I love my Hitachi drives and couldnt ask for anything else from them. I own 8 IBM/Hitachi drives and have had one fail(it was a 30GB 75GXP and was replaced this year with a 30 gig 7k250 model hitachi drive under warranty). Im currently considering setting up a RAID 0 Array with dual 120GB drives and most likely I will go with Hitachi 7K250's.

Good luck with whatever you get, and make sure you have a drive with a good warranty.
 
Having a good warranty and a backup solution should be your only concern. It's anyone's guess whether a WD or an Hitachi drive would fail first, because their reliability rates are similar lately. No hard drive should be considered "reliable," as all mechanical hard drives maintain a treacherous existence where failure is a matter of "when," not "if."
 
Screw that, the new 16MB cache Maxtor drives kick ass. DiamondMax 10 I believe is the model. Decently priced too. I did a lot of researching before buying my 300GB for $206 which is in the mail now.

Check out StorageReview.com. The top HDD on their leaderboard is basically the same one you can buy for $206. The only difference is the MTTF, but the one I bought does come with a 3 year warranty.
 
WD used to be the better of the two. In the past year, however, I have been hearing of WD drives bombing worse than maxtors. I just lost 2 out of 4 WD 120GB in the past 2 weeks and heard another WD go click this morning. Hitachi's new line of storage did assimilate IBM, but Hitachi fixed the design flawas of the IBM drives and I've heard nothing but good things about Hitachi drives. That being said, Hitachi is still new to the market and as yet, no real conclusion to the reliability issue.

Howver, when you say you're looking at the 10K drives, you don't mean the normal IDE drives right?
Cuz WD only has the 10K SATA Raptors and HItachi only has the 10K SCSI drives
which are two different things. If you look at it that way, WD is good for SATA and HItachi is good for SCSI. Although I've heard Seagate has better 10K SCSI drives.
Please clarify which drives you are comparing. Either way, warranty and ease of RMA process are similar now and it goes without saying that backups should be performed.
 
i have nothing but good things to say about WD. never had a drive die on me (*knocks on wood*). for my laptop i got through school, my hitachi drive died after nearly 7 months of use, then again, i dropped my laptop 2 months ago, and my hd is still going. seagate is another company i would go with and with maxtors, they now made them pretty much bulletproof. 5 year gurantee(sp) on them. haven't used maxtor drives, but i prolly will get one eventually.
 
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