Hitachi's utter, utter ****?

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I had a La Cie Big Disk 1TB

Made funny noises, i opened it, think one of the 500gb raided drives had failed.

Spoke to La Cie, as it was 1 month over the 1 year warranty, they wouldn't do anything about it.

Thought i might as well use the other disk, plugged it in to my computer, ready to format it.
Briefly came up in Disk Management, then dissapeared.

Turned computer off, then back on again, and now its started clicking.


BOTH hard drives messed up within a week??
 
I must say I had several failures of 500GB disks over the last year. Several manufacturers too. One RAID1 2 disks failed in the space of a week, luckily I had a spare disk to replace the first that failed... if I had lingered a bit I'd have lost the array completely !

Also, one Buffalo 500GB died just out of warranty; underused, just beeped & died for no apparent reason.

Maybe it's a hint for us to get disks that have 3 years coverage ! :D

/me latest disks are new samsung with 3 years !
 
I bought a "spare" drive while my Raptor was away on RMA, it's a Hitachi 250GB SATA drive. I got it from the purple shirt place.

First one lasted about a week, then failed altogether. I took it back, got it replaced. Second one took 3 days to start sprouting bad sectors. I took that one back too. It turned out the price had doubled since, and I had to argue with the manager to get them to replace it like-for-like.
Third drive died during the second time I formatted it, as the first time it had corrupted Windows during installation, which I think was the drive's doing.
The shop had the audacity to accuse me of "not looking after" the drives. I told them that maybe they should stock some better ones, to which I was told "We do" as the gibbon assistant pointed to the retail boxed drives. I replied "I'm not paying £150 for 500GB". In the end they replaced it after I threatened them with trading standards.
That drive lasted me two weeks, dying during a bootup. When I took it back for a fourth time, there were some raised eyebrows, but it was replaced with little hassle.
The fifth drive is still going strong after almost four weeks. \o/

I won't be buying Hitachi again, and this drive will be going in the bin when my Raptor is functional again. ***** of ****!!! :mad:
 
i've had a few hitachi drives die out on me, never seen a WD or Seagate failure yet.

yep hitachi are crap, i've still got a 250gb drive in service but i'd never buy another.
 
A few years ago IBM were being sued left, right and center for failing DeskStar drives (the company I worked for binned loads after a 30% failure rate on a sample of 200+) and then Hitachi bought IBM's disk division and rebranded them. I guess they have managed to maintain the high failure level nicely over the last couple of years.
 
this is why they were nicknamed deathstars lol

i have never owned one as i have never heard a good word said about them.
 
Not as bad as the Quantum Bigfoot. I had a 1Gb drive that died after 11 months and 2 weeks into the 1year warranty with Special Reserve. Got it replaced with a 5gb drive! I thought it was the bees knees. Only cost me an extra £30 to the engineer who mistakenly put it in . . . :D
 
hmm I've had my T7k500 320gb for about a year now and it's working fine.

and I just bought another brand new 500gb T7K500 for 40 quid shipped....I've only had a good experience with hitachi so far..
 
Deal with enough drives, and all brands fail. I've had plenty of dead seagates for example. However I wouldnt use a deathstar myself, they do seem to be worse than average, and seagate are better than average. Havent really had much dealing with WD, as most of the drives I use are SCSI disks.
 
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