OT: Best hard drive: Hitachi

riredale wrote on 9/23/2014, 4:36 PM

Based on this article, Hitachi is significantly better than WD, and Seagate is significantly worse than anything else.

EDIT: Well, interesting news gets around fast. Posted this, then noted that John had posted a link to the same data an hour earlier.

Wish there was some way to delete.

Comments

videoITguy wrote on 9/23/2014, 5:13 PM

Drives do not come all the same - but one has to be careful in comparing manufacturer selects - Western Digital now releases at least 3 different grades of drives and while it may be regarded that you can swap one for the other - they do have actually different specs.
So indeed a recent experience to get best Raid system performance showed me that selecting the equivalent drive to drive compare - a Hitachi model beat out Western Digital.

John_Cline wrote on 9/23/2014, 5:21 PM

Western Digital now owns HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), although the Western Digital and Hitachi brands operate as separate companies.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 as a merger of the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi. (IBM being the inventor of the hard drive and originator of most all of the advances in hard drive technology.) Western Digital (WD) acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in early 2012.

Just this month, HGST announced a 10TB 3.5" hard drive filled with helium.

john_dennis wrote on 9/23/2014, 5:46 PM

My inventory has grown some since this...

Hitachi Deskstar

PeterDuke wrote on 9/23/2014, 7:49 PM

Did you know that CDs have replaced LPs? :)

ushere wrote on 9/23/2014, 8:31 PM

peter, when did that happen!?

john_dennis wrote on 9/23/2014, 8:40 PM

"[I]CDs have replaced LPs[/I]"

I suspected as much since my last two amplifiers didn't have phono pre-amps. I just replaced an 18 year old amp last month.

As an aside: the forum spell checker doesn't know what to do with "phono".

musicvid10 wrote on 9/23/2014, 9:18 PM

Uhh, nothing will ever duplicate the warmth from my 1/8" cassette tapes, except maybe my old LearJet 4-track, which bit the dust many years earlier . . .

Gary James wrote on 9/23/2014, 9:41 PM

I totally agree with the assessment of Seagate drives. In my many years working with computers I've only had three hard drive failures. All three were Seagate drives. WD Black drives have been very reliable for me. I've only had two 2TB Hitachi drives that I purchased for backup storage. One developed intermittent write errors about a month after I got it. I contacted the factory and they replaced it immediately. Both drives have since been working fine for the past two years.

Byron K wrote on 9/24/2014, 2:56 AM

in the late 90's and early 2K the IBM Deskstar became known as the IBM Deathstars due to many many failures that we encountered when I was a desktop tech at a health care company that had about 3,000 users. I've even had 2 of my 4 RAID 0+1 drives die on my personal DAW machine around 2000-2002. I personally haven't used them since but I'm sure (hope) they've gotten better since IBM has teamed up w/ Hitachi. (;