HItachi HardDrives - not impressed

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i bought 1 of these just over a month ago and put them in a RAID 0

Was originally very impressed with the performance etc, but since then it has gone down hill

One of them started clicking, and eventually i couldn't boot of them

so i took them out of RAID (both are still showing in the BIOS) and attempted to vista on them indidivually

when trying to do so, the vista installation for on one of the HDD's just wouldn't see the harddrive at all - so faulty

Managed to get Vista on the other drive, but it has started clikcing again (although not straight away, only after the PC has been on for a bit) - so faulty

I bought these HDD's thinking that Hitachi were a good company and reliable, yet now i have 2 fail virtually one after the other

I phoned OverClockers UK support and while he couldn't tell me if their was a common problem or not, he did how-ever tell me that i could only have a a like for like replacment.
This is a bummer, as i really don't want another Hitachi HardDrive, was hoping to get a Samsung or something replacement (to the same or slightly less value)

opps, wrote a bit much, but Rant Over
 
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Possibly part of a bad batch, it can happen with any manufacturer. If it makes you feel any better, I have a Hitachi 500GB disk which has been flawless for quite some time now. They're not all bad, honestly.
 
I've noticed my Hitachi drive has started clicking recently and sometimes the drive will just stop functioning but i can still move the mouse and click on things but if i click something that requires hard drive access the pc will freeze, also listening to music or watching video's sometimes it will get a random stutter.

So i guess we could turn this thread into a spec us Hitachi hard drive users a decent hard drive thread:p
 
Never rated Hitachi that much to be honest with you, I always choose Seagate, WD and sometime Samsung :)

Stelly
 
bledd. said:
only buy WD or Samsung
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Great advice.......

FYI I've now been through 6 WD 500-750gb aaks in the past 3 months. Thank god for raid 5 is all I can say. :rolleyes:

Had a few doa Seagates too. My 5 80gb Hitachi's in raid 0 on my desktop are still going strong from day one back in feb '06 :)

3 Hitachi 400gb in another machine also working just fine as with a few Maxtor's back (250gb 16mb) from 2003 which are still working away without a problem.

Each company suffers from occasional bad batches, explaining the 6 WD drives that have failed on me very recently, It's why you should buy drive arrays over a different number of brands. :)
 
When I was at uni a few years back, we had nearly an entire lab full of computers drop out one by one because of a bad batch of drives, and I think those were Hitachi. After that I've never even considered getting one.

PK!
 
had two deathstars, both 80gb drives lasted a good 4 years, they still work just not in use, never understood what all the "death"star fuss was about at the time tbh :)
 
Hitachi = never buy!

i only buy WD.. never had one fail! had a few Hitachi's die!

my girlfriends Acer laptop come with Hitachi HD's - died in a few months.. replaced it with WD! yes plz! :)
 
misterPK said:
When I was at uni a few years back, we had nearly an entire lab full of computers drop out one by one because of a bad batch of drives, and I think those were Hitachi. After that I've never even considered getting one.

PK!
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That can happen to any manufacturer, I had exactly the same experience with a batch of machines in work except they were WD Caviars.
 
I have two Hitachi drives (one an old 4 year drive still working well).

The only other drive I would get instead of Hitachi is Samsung.
 
I had a Hitachi Deskstar 80gb IDE drive for over 2 years and it was fine. I got it in a pre-built PC though. Would never buy them myself, always choose WD or Seagate personally.
 
Hang on, you put them in RAID 0? Well if one drive were to fail you would have lost everything. The only drive i've had fail is an hitcahi laptop drive.
 
hmm, mixed responces to Hitachi then, lol

anyway, sent both the drives back to overclockers this morning, 7.75 quid it cost to post them, lol

dunno how long it will take to get them replaced though, but would it be worth buying another HDD (liking the look of the Samsung SpinPoint f1 750gb), and use that (and use the Hitachi's for back-up) or just wait out for the replacement and hope that the ones i had were just from a bad batch and that i won't have the same problem again
 
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