Hitachi or W.Digital?

Runningkid · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:08

looking at 160gb-200gb, any other brands like maxtor or seagate i will take. Which one you guys recommend

smids · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:00

160GB Hitachi SATA-II deskstar (fast drive) or Seagate 7200.9 160GB SATA-II (very reliable drive).

Explicit · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:45

smids said:
160GB Hitachi SATA-II deskstar (fast drive) or Seagate 7200.9 160GB SATA-II (very reliable drive).

Quoted for truth.

deadeyedic30 · 11 Mar 2006 at 16:49

Go for the Seagate 7200.9 160GB SATA-II.

Runningkid · 11 Mar 2006 at 17:23

cheers

Cyber-Mav · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:36

go for reliability, the deathstars are world renoun for high failure rate.

smids · 11 Mar 2006 at 20:14

Cyber-Mav said:
go for reliability, the deathstars are world renoun for high failure rate.

Mav, stop posting tripe. You obviously know nothing about Hitachi - IBM produced two models, the GXP60 and GXP75 and these were the deathstars - do you even know the reason why? There was a flaw with the bearings/head system used and as a result, lots failed. This was fixed a very long time ago. Stop making me have to correct you in every thread. You have little knowledge of HDU's and yet post misinformation in every thread where a Hitachi is mentioned. It might even amount to spamming. Hitachi drives are of very high quality and IBM have nothing to do with hard drives anymore.

Messiah Khan · 11 Mar 2006 at 20:15

Personally i'd go with Western Digital, but then I am a WD fan boy.

Dunky · 11 Mar 2006 at 20:54

Seagate 7200.9 purely for the 5 year warranty. There's very little between hard drives these days, maybe a few mb/sec here or extra SATA-II features here but a 5 yr warrenty does put it slightly ahead in my book. Hitachi, WD, Seagate, etc. are all pretty much the same, Maxtors are a bit ify as there have been a few issues with them. Most recent one being an incompatibility between certain DM10 drives and the NF4 chipset.