Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: How do they keep selling Hitachi Deskstars!?

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 03-02-2012, 03:09 AM:

Seriously.
They were unacceptably unreliable when IBM had the division.
You'd think by now Hitachi would have stabilized them. Or at least changed the name...jeez.

I ended up with 2 of these pieces of duke today.
The first one had the click of death straight away and has been exchanged for a seagate.
The other kept refusing to join the raid and now is being looking more and more like a headcrash situation.
The drives were sold as "new" TODAY. Friggin Fry's, man. And Friggin Hitachi!

Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 03-02-2012, 06:56 AM:

You mean IBM Deathstars?

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 03-02-2012, 02:58 PM:

I suppose so. Hitachi has owned it for the last ... 8-10 years at least.
Either way. What a piece of junk. Never again.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-02-2012, 03:00 PM:

This is why it is a bad idea to buy consumer-grade hard disks. The Hitachi Ultrastars are fine.

Posted by Jock Blakley (Member # 6552) on 03-02-2012, 04:59 PM:

Yeah I know they're Hitachi's now, but the joke going around back in the IBM days was that they were Deathstars [Razz]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-02-2012, 07:33 PM:

Never heard of 'em.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 03-02-2012, 08:09 PM:

They're the official hard drive of Galactic Empire...

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 03-02-2012, 08:30 PM:

....and I still have a computer with a Deskstar still spinning away..built in 2000.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-02-2012, 10:29 PM:

I have a computer with a 10GB hard drive in it...still running. You can figure out the date. [Razz]

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-03-2012, 08:05 PM:

I have several of these that I use for err.... storage of things, and they're fine after several years of use. I did have one fail, but that one was dropped on the floor by accident. Come to think of it, I've never had any brand hard drive fail yet (knock on wood).

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 03-05-2012, 01:40 AM:

Personally I've had mediocre experience with Maxtor. I feel like their quality has gone down hill over the years.
I still have a 500mb Conner and a Samsung of the same vintage in a couple old boxes that still run.
But Samsung is quality in just about everything.
Lately it seems like Western Digital has them all beat though. Been running some of these bad-boys for upwards of 10 years no problem.
Heck, I had a 20gb in a box that's NEVER turned off. Got it used and the machine was up for about 2 years without a reboot until the drive eventually failed. But the history is anybody's guess.

Spinning some Seagates in this box now, we'll see. In the past they weren't the best but they did ok.