Hitachi Deskstar 4TB any good?

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Greetings all!

I'm looking for a good quality/quiet hard drive, to supplement my Samsung 830 SSD boot drive, for my gaming PC, and don't mind paying over the odds for something more reliable than a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001, which has a flaky track record depending from what factory it's shipped from.

Sadly 1tb SSD for gaming isn't viable option right now, what would be my next best bet, I've excluded the WD VelociRaptor due to excessive noise and questionable value/reliability, and reading reviews on the web the WD Caviar Black series does not fare any better, but I'm given to over thinking these things.

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The Hitachi Deskstar 4TB is highly recommended by Storage review
Hitachi is a clear leader in the highest-capacity hard drive market, while also offering performance that should make customers think twice before insisting on technology like the WD Velociraptor that offer better performance at the cost of a lower maximum capacity.
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http://www.storagereview.com/best_drives

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-084-HI

Would I be better served by a cheaper WD Red series noted for their reliability or to quote storagereview: WD Caviar Green earns a nod for high reliability, or simply follow the heard and opt for a 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300, please advise?
 
Please expand on the Hitachi drive, Overclockers don't appear any in stock at present, would the following match the designation of your drives:

HITACHI HUA723030ALA640 Ultrastar 7K3000 (3TB) 7200rpm SATA 64MB Hard Drive (Internal)

Looking further into it all 3tb Hitachi drives average at around £200, while a Hitachi 4tb can be had for £165 odd?
 
http://www.storagereview.com/hitachi_deskstar_7k4000_review
Gaming performance is most likely to be bottlenecked by read operations, so our gaming trace consists of 6% write and 94% read operations. The test is conducted on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit system with Steam, with Grand Theft Auto 4, Left 4 Dead 2, and Mass Effect 2.

The 7K4000 has a better showing against other brands in the gaming trace, but these results still highlight the tradeoff between performance and the greater capacity the Hitachi Deskstar line offers.
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http://www.storagereview.com/images/hitachi_deskstar_7k4000_4tb_storagemark2010_gaming.png
NO HOTLINKING.

Looking more closely at the review rather than simply skipping to the conclusion as I do, it seems I might be better served by a smaller hitachi deskstar 7k3000, but their thin on the ground and the Amazon review's aren't promising.

This thread is a bit of a dead end :(
 
I'm not sure if the sale of some of Hitachi's assets, sold off to Toshiba (hence the Toshiba 3.5"drives, before they only made 2.5" drives), means they might be focusing on enterprise market as they don't list a lot of mainstream HDDs on their website now. Also taking into account they are a WD owned company now.

Anyone know if they are still producing large 2TB+ Deskstar drives now, or is it just existing supplies?
 
Ultrastars are the enterprise drive, so unless you want to pay more for one of those you should strike it off the list.

HGST still appear to making the 4TB 7200 and 5300 drives but I believe you can pretty much now only get them in the external drive models (Touro for 5300 and Touro Pro for the 7200).

Obviously the internal drives are still around but they seem to be at least £40 more expensive than the external ones.

Toshiba bought some of Hitachi's assets and the 1-3TB models they have are pretty much rebadged Hitachi models. I have a few of the 1 and 2TB models and they have the same model number as my 2TB Hitachi's. They all come out of the same factory.

I wouldn't touch a WD Green. Had nothing but issues with the few I have had.

Personally I have been buying the 4TB Hitachi external models, stress testing them and then popping them out of the case and putting them into my machines.
 
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