Hitachi Desktar hard drives...

Post by **tnf** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:43 pm

anyone remember the old deathstar days of the IBM drives? I just picked up a 160 GB SATA drive from Hitachi for $39.99. I'm hoping that since Hitachi bought out IBM's drive stuff (I think that's what happened) the performance has improved...

Anyone have personal experience with the new Hitachi desktar's as opposed to the older IBM ones that created all the problems a few years back?

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:48 pm

Mines fine. My deathstar broke then a few years later I heard Hitachi bought them out- I looked on their website and they allowed me to send back my broken really old drive and sent a new one, can't fault them on that

Oh and I'd hacked it to pieces too and they still took it

Post by **tnf** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:49 pm

i'll let my friend know that, he's got 2 deathstars currently acting as paperweights in his office.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:53 pm

Lol. Single most common component failure on my job last year. I think I must have taken at least 100 units to have the drive replaced in the space of 12 months.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:59 pm

I have a travelstar in my Powerbook.

BTW are "Barracuda" drives any good? I just stuck one in my G5 and it seems to do things like spin round and remember lots of ones and zeros, so I'm happy so far.....

Post by **Foo** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:03 pm

So hard to say with any drive. There are a couple of drives over the years which have proved rock solid or expecially crappy (the crappy ones get noticed the most), but except for a few special cases, there's little difference between drives.

A couple of manufacturers get more cred over others... Seagate aren't high in my book (laptop drive gave up due to getting too hot), yet Maxtor are (loads of drives over the years and they're all perfect today).. Others will have diff stories.

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:05 pm

Geebs wrote:I have a travelstar in my Powerbook.

BTW are "Barracuda" drives any good? I just stuck one in my G5 and it seems to do things like spin round and remember lots of ones and zeros, so I'm happy so far.....

The Barracuda's are excellent IMO.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:09 pm

The ironic thing is that all of the different brands are probably manufactured in the same factory in Taiwan.

Post by **Pooinyourmouth** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:31 pm

I have a IBM Ultrastar that's still fine and kicking. It's a SCSI though at 10,000 rpm. Deskstars where good drives, it's just a couple bad batches made it out and really made some havok for them. The ones before the ordeal and after have been rock solid.

Post by **brisk** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:27 pm

I've got three IBM/Hitachi drives in my PC. They haven't failed me yet, unlike some crappy seagate.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:36 pm

seagate barracuda drive is awesom'

Specially two of the fuckers running raid

Post by **tnf** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:10 pm

Well, this has been a dramatic installation.
First, I didn't think about the fact that the SATA drives on my mobo go through the RAID controller. Then I didn't consider the fact that in order to install windows on a drive like that, I need a floppy disk so I can install said drivers during the windows install. then i didn't realize that i don't have a floppy disk cable for my gaming machine anywhere to be found. and my floppy drive for my laptop is at work. so i go to the folks house, rip the floppy cable out of their dell, and bring it back here, after making a driver disk for the raid controller for the windows install. i am attempting to put the cable into my machine, when i notice that this floppy cable has a different pin-out than the floppy interface on my motherboard...so it won't work...it looks like dell used a different style of floppy cable (didn't realize there was more than one, so maybe this one is proprietary and just a way for them to be bigger fucks)....so then i have to go out and buy a floppy cable, only to get back, get it installed, and see that the disk with the raid drivers on it was no good...so i head ot the neighbors to use their machine, get the drivers installed on a floppy disk that worked, and am now, 5 hours after buying this drive, finally getting windows installed. fuck me running.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:33 pm

I guess that's why it's not recommended to use a RAID as your main system drive?

Post by **tnf** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:17 am

i didn't think i would have to...i thought i would just be able to plug the sata drive in and go...but i was not correct..heh.