Seagate or Hitachi?

[1Wolf]

I'm looking to pick up a fast, 7200RPM, 2 or 3TB drive (OS will not boot off this drive) and I'm looking to spend in the neighborhood of $100-$150.

I'm looking at two different drives on newegg that seem to fit the bill and was wondering what you thought of these choices?

HGST Deskstar 7K3000 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Thanks!

 

[MrGuvernment]

at work i have about 15T of drives in storage servers, all Hitachi drives, from raid 5, 10 and 6, 2 systems going strong for 2 years now.

ever since Seagates 7200.9/10 fiasco i have stayed away from them.

i only recently about 1 month ago had a hitachi 500G drive go bad, other than that, out of about....30 drives... that isnt bad.. 1 out of 30 drives all in 24/7 production.

hitachi has 1 kind of drive, no low end, mid range and high end, that work in raid and dont, they just work.

 

[roach9]

It's really arbitrary; there's no right answer.

While I'd suggest Hitachi, they're going out of business (or being eaten up by WD, which ever you'd prefer) and if RMA one down the line, you won't be getting the same one back, so if uniformity is your thing, I'd go with Seagate.

I've personally only had bad experiences with WD drives. Samsung/Seagate have been great to me, thus far. But someone will chime in with the exact opposite experience.

Just get what you'd like best and what has the longest WARRANTY.

 

[mwroobel]

I would recommend either, get the best bang for your buck. The Hitachi is an excellent drive, and we have been evaluating the 3TB 1TB/platter Seagates over the past few months and have had excellent results with those as well.

 

[tombew]

Note that the Seagate drive you link has a 1 YEAR WARRANTY !
I think you may find the same drive in retail box w/5 year warranty if you look around.

 

[odditory]

Note that the Seagate drive you link has a 1 YEAR WARRANTY !
I think you may find the same drive in retail box w/5 year warranty if you look around.

Microcenter has the retail version but if you can hold out a few months Toshiba is going to be pumping out what by all indications will be Hitachi drives with a Toshiba sticker.

 

[TeeJayHoward]

HGST Deskstar 7K3000 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

I'm running four of those Seagates right now, alongside two of the older Seagates. They're the drives that come in the BackupPlus external dohickeys they sell at Best Buy. I had one fail on me a short time ago. Replaced it with another one. No issues so far. The brand of drive you get isn't worth much these days. Just get whichever one offers a better warranty, or is cheaper, or has the prettier sticker on it.

 

[zero2dash]

I will say that having owned 2 Seagate 7200.10's (including a 750GB that was a clicky, noisy, hot running piece of crap that eventually died).....I had no desire to try a Seagate again. Recently though I put together a build for a friend off a combo buy from NewEgg that came with a 1TB Seagate and I've gotta say, it was a really nice drive.....quiet, ran cool, very fast. I would (at this point) give Seagate another chance....if WD and Samsung weren't available.

I've owned several WD's and Samsung's - no problems. Absolutely love my F3 1TB and 6400AAKS.
Never owned a Hitachi because when I needed to buy drives, it was post-Deathstar days and I've since avoided them completely.

I am sad that Samsung has been bought by Seagate and that WD bought Hitachi; now I don't know who to buy from anymore.

 

[Pocatello]

... now I don't know who to buy from anymore.

I have had good and bad drives from WD, Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi. Some work and some don't. Most of my failures were due to faulty shipping methods from New Egg.

I never buy drives if I don't plan to use them immediately so I can check for shipping damage.

Best of luck.

 

[Justintoxicated]

All of my 1TB segate drives have died at least once, some twice. I think I have 4 of them still running off the RMAed drives. They would just suddenly not be recognized by the system, and disappear. No warning signs. My WD Raptor 300GB was RMAed 3 times and died for the 4th time out of warranty a couple years ago. A couple of my WD drives (1TB) have had some issues with bad sectors and seem slow but none of them have died.

I have 6 1TB samsung drives and a 2TB drive, after about 6 years 2 of the 1TB drives show a couple power up errors in SMART, and one had a couple sectors repaired all are still chugging away though. Samsung gets my vote.

As a side note, all drives will eventually die. I have had several WD drives died 80GB or less in the past. They all died but lasted a good while. My Dad had a few 500GB WD drives die too recently but they were also at least 3 years old, but they were about the same age as my Samsungs....

EDIT: just read that samsung is no longer producing drives. WTH, made by segate now... GREAT the world is coming to and end I am sure of it...

From newegg review.
"Pros: After Seagate too over and started manufacturing these drives, everything went to hell. I bought the original genuine Samsung 2TB Hard Drive about 2 years ago and it's still holding up. I would try looking all over the interent for the genuine Samsung 2TB hard drives since they were and still are the most reliable.

Cons: Seagate...
Lots of DOA and short lives."

That's my experience as well...