Alex Austin wrote: > Have you not heard the Deskstar hard drives referred to as Death Star > drives? They've been questionable since before IBM had the line. Not sure if > they still are, but I get the impression they are.
Ancient history. The problem has long been corrected, from everything I read. Show me a drive manufacturer that never made anything but perfect drives... and I'll show you a purely theoretical drive manufacturer. ;-) > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Donald MacQueen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I remember Ray, among others, has expressed doubt about using Hitachi >> laptop drives, but does that reluctance extend to their desktop drives too? >> >> Here is a 1 Tb Hitachi for $65: >> http://dealnews.com/Hitachi-1-TB-SATA-3-Gbps-Internal-Hard-Drive-for-65-after-rebate-free-shipping/310406.html?ref=alert I have a couple of those, they are fast and quiet. Cheap too. What's not to like? I have Hitachi drives in at least 3 of my ThinkPads, no problems (yet). I like the 7200rpm single-platter ones. Very quiet and fast, use little power. AFAIK no one drive manufacturer has a lock on always making the most dependable, best drives. To really assess reliability you'd need MANY drives from each manufacturer, in a controlled experiment. Google has done such a study and released some results, but did not reveal any drive manufacturers. In the absence of such data, you pays your money, you takes your choice. All hard drives fail, it's a just a question of when. Make backups, etc... The fact that Lenovo uses Hitachis in new ThinkPads should tell you something: if the failure rates were astronomical, the warranty repair costs would be too, and they would stop using them. storagereview.com has performance data on many drives. The site proper is fairly inactive now, but the forum still has lots of current info. Good luck, -Frank _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
