Hitachi/IBM Drives, anygood?

Massive Attack · 10 Oct 2006 at 01:21

hi all,

i have found a cheap Hitachi/IDM/HGST 320gb hard drive and was wondering are they anygood because they are soo cheap

smids · 10 Oct 2006 at 03:13

Hitachi drives are great. They are fast and pretty reliable drives. I personally own 4 of them in my main rig setup in RAID arrays.

rpstewart · 10 Oct 2006 at 09:08

smids said:
Hitachi drives are great. They are fast and pretty reliable drives. I personally own 4 of them in my main rig setup in RAID arrays.

As above really except I've got 10 at the moment

Hitachi's were always the quickest of the 7200rpm drives until the Seagate 7200.10 series but I fully expect Hitachi to be back there once they release their perpendicular drives.

Massive Attack · 10 Oct 2006 at 10:48

so do you guys recon i should go for this Hitachi/IBM/HGST drive over say a western digital raid edition which is £15 more si i would save myself £45 at the end because i need 3

smids · 10 Oct 2006 at 10:52

Ooo, the RE drives - now those are very good and designed for 24/7 usage, coined 'the 7200rpm Raptor'.

Hmm, difficult one - for £45 saving, I'd be tempted to go for the Hitachi's.

Massive Attack · 10 Oct 2006 at 12:08

hmmm now u have said that m8 i am going to want to get the RE drives