After buying many drives for servers, I find WD's to generally be the
most cost effective and reliable and a good company to work with always.
I most always buy thu newegg and alway try to buy WD 7200 rpm, large
cache models with a 5 yr. warranty and if not that, the 3 yr. warranty
models. If you don't set NewEgg's search tool to view "all models"
instead of best rated or best deal you will just get the one's they are
pushing and not necessarily the best deal or the best model.
Some manufacturers like Seagate are having significant problems with
their 1 TB + drives.
3 or 4 years ago Hitachi was having drive reliability issues but I don't
know about now...
db
mike wrote:
Good info Betty, thanks. It's hard to keep track of who is actually making
hardware these days and I'll be the first to admit my bad feelings about
hitachi are not founded in any real facts. To be honest I'm not worried
about recovery as 1 of these drives is the main and the other a mirror,
which is why I'll be getting two of them.
One other question since it looks like I'll be heading towards hitachi, how
is their advance RMA? I've found WD's to be fairly straightforward and
fast, hitachi good as well in case I do get a bad drive? I've got one year
instant exchange with the wholesaler I'm buying from but after that I'll be
dealing with hitachi.
Does sony still make the drives in their dvdrw's? I'd heard many of them
were liteons?
Thanks.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote:
Hitachi 0A38016 1 TB SATA II 16 MB 92 bux
Western Digital 10EACS 1 TB SATA II 98 bux
Both carry 3 year warranty. I've got bad feelings about hitachi due to
past
experience with just one drive. I'm buying two of these which means I
could
save a whopping 12 bux, what does the list think? Any opinions on either
drive? BTW, I won't be RAIDing the drives so the WD will still be ok if
that's the pick.
Polls close early, please vote soon and often.
My vote: Hitachi or Seagate [not Maxtor, not low-end Seagate]. Hitachi [as
well as Seagate] makes its own hardware, or carefully oversees the
manufacturing so that the drives contain exactly what Hitachi dictates,
including the chips inside. When a drive fails, a drive recovery firm can
remove the disk and put it into any other Hitachi drive of the same model,
and then work to recover the data.
Western digital produces specs for their drives, then farms production out
to a variety of manufacturing plants that promise to follow specs. If a WD
drive fails, the data recovery process is more complicated. You have to have
at least a half dozen bare, empty drives before you find one that can "talk"
to the damaged disk.
Both drives are equally reliable--more or less. As long as you back up your
data frequently it doesn't matter. But if your data is critical, I'd go with
reliable drive companies that oversee the manufacture of their products like
Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi/IBM. I will never buy another Sony drive.
Those are the only drives I've used that failed long before their time. I'm
about to replace a Sony DVD-RW drive with a Pioneer drive to avoid the usual
Sony issues.
Save often. Backup often, too.
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