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Which Hard Disk Brand Is Best?hitachi

#1 fahad619

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 08:59 AM

Hitachi Hard disk are more cheaper than other brands.so i want know that how is it has good performance.How about other brand
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 10:48 AM

Hi. To name a few: Western Digital Black Edition, Samsung Spinpoint, & SEagate Barrcuda come to mind.

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 01:40 PM

You know, most of them are generally reliable. Samsung and Hitachi were recently bought by Western Digital and Seagate. Right now, I have just about everything in use somewhere, and none of them seem to want to die...

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 02:15 PM

"Which Hard Disk Brand is Best?"
The one you get on sale at newegg.com

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Posted 24 February 2013 - 08:53 AM

fahad619, on 16 February 2013 - 08:59 AM, said:

How about other brand

I will Only buy Western Digital HD's. I Never had one fail on me, even after Years of service.

I would Highly advise AGAINST Maxtor. They are not only inexpensive, but Quality is Abysmal!!!! I had 2 that just died with all their data, 2 more Brand New, that actually caught FIRE inside & burned the label off. Another brand new 320Gig drive had a HARD Partition on it. NOTHING could get rid of the partition, which led me to believe that there was a physical defect on one of the platters.

Beware of "Hot-Plate Hitachi" HD's!!!!! I had one in a laptop that Cooked itself to death. Yep, lost all that data too!!!

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Posted 24 February 2013 - 09:50 AM

Umm, Maxtor was acquired by Seagate in 2006...

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Posted 24 February 2013 - 11:02 AM

LiveBrianD, on 24 February 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

Umm, Maxtor was acquired by Seagate in 2006...

Remember in 2007 Brand New Seagate HD's that came with a pre-installed password stealing Trojan?
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 12:47 PM

LiveBrianD, on 24 February 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

Umm, Maxtor was acquired by Seagate in 2006...

To take it further, SEagate has been acquired by WD.

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Posted 24 February 2013 - 01:05 PM

If that were true, I'd have an even easier time justifying an SSD. I'm already planning to get one in my next machine as it is.

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Posted 25 February 2013 - 03:56 AM

coastie65, on 24 February 2013 - 12:47 PM, said:

To take it further, SEagate has been acquired by WD.

Lincoln, Mercury, Ford, Hugo

Same-O-Same-O

Western Digital, Seagate, Anything as long as it's Cheap, Maxtor

Every company has it's Levels of Quality & Longevity.

Western Digital survives the test of TIME. Buy Quality or a Hugo!!!!! Your decision!!!!!

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Posted 25 February 2013 - 04:14 AM

MLStrand, I realize what you are saying is your own experience, but let me lay out mine. Back in the early 90's, I had two WD drives die in one day. In that same machine, my Quantum Bigfoot lasted another 2 years. About 5 total for the Bigfoot. I then had two more WD 120GB Special Edition drives that died 30 days outside of warranty in 2002. During this time, I have had Seagates, Samsung, Toshiba, and Maxtor drives. Only the WD drives were prone to failure.

And now here we are in 2013. I have one of each in my media center (Samsung, Seagate, WD) as part of my raid array. Only one partial failure (a hiccup from my Seagate got it pulled while I replaced it - it is still in use in a different machine). It was replaced with another Seagate, and life is still going strong. EVERY one of those drives is nearly 5 years old, and none show any signs of failing any time soon. They all are in use 24/7. So from where I sit, this is a far more reasonable example of TODAY's drive quality.

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Posted 18 April 2013 - 04:31 AM

HGST offers the broadest range of products that define the standard for hard drive capacity, performance and reliability. The world’s leading storage system and device manufacturers rely on HGST hard disk drives for their notebook and desktop PCs, consumer electronics products and enterprise servers and storage arrays.

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Posted 18 April 2013 - 07:51 AM

Justin123, on 18 April 2013 - 04:31 AM, said:

Justin, you keep copy/pasting from other sources without giving them credit (http://www.hgst.com/...al-hard-drives/). You would be wise to provide links so that people don't think you're plegiarizing.