no way on the Hitachi drives. our office uses dell laptops with Hitachis. I've lost 3 in 2 years, and easily every person in the office (50plus) has lost at minimum 1 during their laptop lease (3 years). I call Hitachi crap. They start 'clicking' and next day dead.
no way on the Hitachi drives. our office uses dell laptops with Hitachis. I've lost 3 in 2 years, and easily every person in the office (50plus) has lost at minimum 1 during their laptop lease (3 years). I call Hitachi crap. They start 'clicking' and next day dead.
Interesting. I have had my Hitachi 7200 rpm drive in my Dell Inspiron 8500 for almostt two years now with no problems. Of course, it sounds like I should go knock on some wood. I do not want to hear a clicking sound when I fire it up for work again Monday.
Interesting. I have had my Hitachi 7200 rpm drive in my Dell Inspiron 8500 for almostt two years now with no problems. Of course, it sounds like I should go knock on some wood. I do not want to hear a clicking sound when I fire it up for work again Monday.
These are Hitachi Laptop drives I'm talking about. I have no experience with their desktop line.
my iBook g4 has a hitachi 2.5" drive, 1.5 years old,
iPod mini 1st gen has a hitachi drive, 8 months old,
so far i've put it through what i believe to be fairly good usage and it holds up well...
That's not a very long track record though.
That's still doing better than some of the drives under the previous moniker, IBM. I have an IBM that works great as a storage drive, but it had some trouble as a Windows system drive.
My personal choices are Seagates, in part because of the 5yr warranties across the board, and regularly testing to be quieter than the board in most of their respective categories. It doesn't hurt that I've never had a single problem with any of their drives. I might buy a WD Raptor some day for a snappy system drive, but that's a ways off, I have other priorities for now.
FUCK IBM hard drives. GRRR. I had an IBM Deathstar. Lots of good stuff...gone.
On the other hand, let's look at facts. Apple a long time ago used to use a lot of Maxtors. Those old Macs are still running nicely. Like my Color Classic and my IIsi. That's longevity for you. And they both were used a lot.
it's all hit and miss with modern tech these days, seeing how a brand is a brand, but the manufacturing, etc, etc, all comes from different places.
THIS IS THE SPICE TRADING OF THE 21st CENTURY !!
instead of tea, silks, and exotic chocolates we trade in RAM, Hard Disks, CPUs, DVD drives, LCDs, from all four corners of the globe
well my point was my
maxtor 160gb 7200rpm 2mb buffer took a 4-feet straight drop onto a hard parquet floor.
granted, it was off, in the core plastic rail of a 3.5" fw400 casing, but still, it took some hard Gs my friends.
since then, i have been able to successfully watch a battlestar galactica episode 10 off it no worries, and doing some cloning onto it using super duper !
i think i got lucky. another brand (edit: i should say another batch of hard disks), a different type of fall, perhaps 5 years ago, it would have been f8cking game over for the brand new 160gb hard disk. heh. the beastly drive lives to fight another day.
we'll see how long it lasts now. i think the warranty is still intact for another 11 months (shhh! don't tell anyone i droped it !! )
FUCK IBM hard drives. GRRR. I had an IBM Deathstar. Lots of good stuff...gone.
On the other hand, let's look at facts. Apple a long time ago used to use a lot of Maxtors. Those old Macs are still running nicely. Like my Color Classic and my IIsi. That's longevity for you. And they both were used a lot.
PS aquatic i think my quote is alright in your sig, despite the first few being dodgy ones, mine comes after marcUK's enlightened-sounding one so yeah... cool... rock on brotha.
i think Hitachi cleaned up some IBM messes. i feel their new batches are good shite, in high demand. but i have no real data to back that up. i like their ad campaign though, eg in Wired magazine.
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my original maxtor cube drive just died and am looking around for a new one.
Originally posted by sandau
no way on the Hitachi drives. our office uses dell laptops with Hitachis. I've lost 3 in 2 years, and easily every person in the office (50plus) has lost at minimum 1 during their laptop lease (3 years). I call Hitachi crap. They start 'clicking' and next day dead.
Interesting. I have had my Hitachi 7200 rpm drive in my Dell Inspiron 8500 for almostt two years now with no problems. Of course, it sounds like I should go knock on some wood. I do not want to hear a clicking sound when I fire it up for work again Monday.
Originally posted by kwsanders
Interesting. I have had my Hitachi 7200 rpm drive in my Dell Inspiron 8500 for almostt two years now with no problems. Of course, it sounds like I should go knock on some wood. I do not want to hear a clicking sound when I fire it up for work again Monday.
These are Hitachi Laptop drives I'm talking about. I have no experience with their desktop line.
Originally posted by sandau
These are Hitachi Laptop drives I'm talking about. I have no experience with their desktop line.
The Dell Inspiron 8500 is a laptop.
Originally posted by sunilraman
some of you may say, wtf?
some of you may say, what took you so long??
my iBook g4 has a hitachi 2.5" drive, 1.5 years old,
iPod mini 1st gen has a hitachi drive, 8 months old,
so far i've put it through what i believe to be fairly good usage and it holds up well...
That's not a very long track record though.
That's still doing better than some of the drives under the previous moniker, IBM. I have an IBM that works great as a storage drive, but it had some trouble as a Windows system drive.
My personal choices are Seagates, in part because of the 5yr warranties across the board, and regularly testing to be quieter than the board in most of their respective categories. It doesn't hurt that I've never had a single problem with any of their drives. I might buy a WD Raptor some day for a snappy system drive, but that's a ways off, I have other priorities for now.
On the other hand, let's look at facts. Apple a long time ago used to use a lot of Maxtors. Those old Macs are still running nicely. Like my Color Classic and my IIsi. That's longevity for you. And they both were used a lot.
THIS IS THE SPICE TRADING OF THE 21st CENTURY !!
instead of tea, silks, and exotic chocolates we trade in RAM, Hard Disks, CPUs, DVD drives, LCDs, from all four corners of the globe
well my point was my
maxtor 160gb 7200rpm 2mb buffer took a 4-feet straight drop onto a hard parquet floor.
granted, it was off, in the core plastic rail of a 3.5" fw400 casing, but still, it took some hard Gs my friends.
since then, i have been able to successfully watch a battlestar galactica episode 10 off it no worries, and doing some cloning onto it using super duper !
i think i got lucky. another brand (edit: i should say another batch of hard disks), a different type of fall, perhaps 5 years ago, it would have been f8cking game over for the brand new 160gb hard disk. heh. the beastly drive lives to fight another day.
we'll see how long it lasts now. i think the warranty is still intact for another 11 months (shhh! don't tell anyone i droped it !!
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Originally posted by Aquatic
FUCK IBM hard drives. GRRR. I had an IBM Deathstar. Lots of good stuff...gone.
On the other hand, let's look at facts. Apple a long time ago used to use a lot of Maxtors. Those old Macs are still running nicely. Like my Color Classic and my IIsi. That's longevity for you. And they both were used a lot.
PS aquatic i think my quote is alright in your sig, despite the first few being dodgy ones, mine comes after marcUK's enlightened-sounding one so yeah... cool... rock on brotha.
i think Hitachi cleaned up some IBM messes. i feel their new batches are good shite, in high demand. but i have no real data to back that up. i like their ad campaign though, eg in Wired magazine.