What is wrong with Hitachi? Can't they make a decent hard drive? I am completely open to manufacturers and have toshiba, seagate, wd, hitachi and samsung hard drives.
It seems that the hitachis are the ones with the greatest failure rate. Lately I noticed my laptop slowing down tremendously. I thought it was because it was due to it not being formatted for a long time. But I just found out that the 7200 rpm hdd in it (which is 6 months old) started vibrating a lot and making gentle click sounds. Right now I am imaging it to a wd drive. :-(