Hitachi 500gb IDe disks any good?

rudeboymcc · 1 Oct 2007 at 14:15

Hi there. just found a great deal on a LAN external enclosure that comes with a 500gb Hitachi disk. I have stuck with Samsung and Seagate (quiet and speed, which ever i need) for years now. How are Hitachi doing with their new drives?

rpstewart · 1 Oct 2007 at 14:44

Nothing wrong with Hitachi stuff, it's only in the last year or so that others have overtaken them for speed.

helmutcheese · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:22

Just read due to them taking over IBM HDD's, they are losing cash and may pull out of the HDD market completely.

http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=16256&catid=6

rpstewart · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:47

Can't say I'm surprised really, we sold Storage Technology to them because we couldn't make a profit either. The guys in San Jose spend a vast amount of money on R&D but they haven't come up with anything really ground breaking since the GMR heads so it's just been catch up since.

helmutcheese · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:26

You work for IBM ?

You want me to stand on top of the Castle across the river from you and wave

rpstewart · 1 Oct 2007 at 23:37

helmutcheese said:
You work for IBM ?

Yup, I do indeed.

helmutcheese said:
You want me to stand on top of the Castle across the river from you and wave

Which castle, Dumbarton?

basmic · 2 Oct 2007 at 21:43

rpstewart said:
Yup, I do indeed.

Probably a daft question, but worth a shot anyway.

Are you able to help me with an error that I get on my machines (I think two machines of mine get the error, maybe all) when I run the latest DFT either from a floppy or bootable CD-RW?

Hitachi have yet to provide me with a soloution, therefore I simply use an older version of DFT if I need to use it.

rpstewart · 2 Oct 2007 at 22:24

I doubt I can be of much assistance at that sort of level. I haven't dealt with anyone from Storage Technology / Hitachi for about 5 years, even when I was there it was only for some data management consultancy.

TUNSTALL_NICK · 4 Oct 2007 at 12:51