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Anonymous at 10:26am 02/26/2006
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Unfortunately whether hitachi fixed IBMs or not after the raft of
returns o gxps our shop has never stocked ibms/hitachis again.
unless a customer specifies they get seagates in their machines.
Samsung have a good record (slow speed). We return samsungs the
least.
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Lawdrich at 02:16pm 02/25/2006
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Sounds like a bad batch. You can never be certain that a courier
hasn't mistreated them along the way. There's always human stupidity
to account for. I once ordered an OEM hard drive from a reputable
dealer and received it in a padded envelope. Needless to say it was
DOA. The IDE connector was smashed to bits. Luckily I had an account
manager to shout at. :D
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p4l1ndr0m3 at 11:24am 02/24/2006
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Sure I do. Also, my experience with Hitachi's serial has been quite
pleasant compared to my experience with Seagate. Don't say anything
about Hitachi and the deathstar, cause that was IBM. When Hitachi
took over, they righted IBM's wrongs. Also, just this summer, I had
a dentist friend of mine commission me to build him 12 new computer
for his office and his patient rooms, all the same machine. I
ordered the same 80gb hd for each computer from Seagate. A mere 5
out of 12 failed, either on boot or soon there after. The 5 that
didn't work were replaced by equivalent Hitachi's. To my surprise,
at least at that time, the Hitachi's worked great, all of them!
Perhaps it was a bad batch or something, but definitely a
disappointment in a company I had considered THE standard on HDDs.
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Formerly Anonymous at 09:58am 02/24/2006
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I remember taking my bicycle to the Dataware warehouse to buy a
Conner 250 MEGAByte HDD for $300 that I had to flip a week's worth
of Bratwurst. This was 10-12 years ago. in 10 years, we should see
at least 250 Terabytes, if not exponentially more.
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tetongo (View my Profile) at 09:55am 02/24/2006
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Oh yeah!
Hitachis hdd had the highest failure rates in the market
don't forget we are talking IBM hdds
Any one remenbers the Deathstar 75??
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tetongo (View my Profile) at 09:52am 02/24/2006
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This article didn't mention the 500gb hdd from western digital
it has the same specs but I'm beting they are faster than the
seagates,
Also they have the new raptor hdd 150gb with a focking windows to
see the hdd innards
Hey Brandon so how about benchmarking the new raptor?? or at least
include the 500gb hdd from wd.
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Egglick at 08:58am 02/24/2006
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I'm not saying that it's better in all situations, but if you've got
the physical space and a decent PSU, those two things are
non-issues. I've got a couple Seagate 250's and I usually can't
hear them when they're two feet away, let alone across the room
(HTPC). More drives does equal more heat, but those drives run
quite cool.
Comparing apples to apples, 2x250GB costs you $100 less and doesn't
significantly add to any of those requirements. IF* you've got the
physical space (like a file server or gaming rig) you could further
add a 3rd drive and get 50% more storage for the same price.
1x500GB for $315= 63¢/GB
2x250GB for $200= 40¢/GB
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Anonymous at 08:53am 02/24/2006
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too much !!&!, not enough space....
it would be nice if those 300gb optical holographic discs would ever
hit the market.
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dbb970s at 08:37am 02/24/2006
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I've found the 320GB Western Digital drives are a good value. They
only cost about $30-$35 more than the 250GB model, but both use
three platters, which helps the 320GB eek a bit more performance out
of the drive (as compared to the 250GB model). Since they both use
3 platters, the noise and heat are also the same as the 250GB model.
Using these in RAID0, I can sustain a transfer rate of about
112MB/s through an Intel ICH7R controller.
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Swaid at 08:01am 02/24/2006
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300% more physical space taken... 2x the noise produced... 3x the
heat produced... 3x power requirement... 3x the probablity for a
drive failure (but you do get the added benefit of distributed
storage)... and you don't get to say you have a single 500GB HDD.
But I have no problem with saying I only having 4x 300GB + 250GB
HDDs for one system all with 5 year warranties!
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