Scott Pabin wrote: > Out of the near thousand IBM Hitachi drives, I've only needed to RMA a > couple, > and they've never said anything about not buying the drives from them. > Weird, > maybe I got lucky. (shrug) > > Brian Phillips wrote: >> Scott Pabin wrote: >>> Why don't any of you use Hitachi (IBM)? Been using IBM after >>> switching from WD back in the last century. Even with the deathstar >>> scare I still had more failures from the other brands, WD especially. >>> Disclaimer: I treat my drives really well, cooler than baby's bottom >>> (in the snow). >> Because of the 1 year old Hitachi Deskstar I just had to tell my SIL was >> toast... No warranty because she didn't buy it from Hitachi, but some other >> outfit. Hitachi tells her to take the drive there and see if there's a >> warranty. >> >> I had a couple IBM deskstars. They died must faster than any WD I've owned. >> I still have a 6 GB WD drive running. It must be going on 10 years now... >> >> I've heard Hitachi makes good commercial solutions (which company doesn't? >> Service contracts have a lot of moolah.), but from what I've seen the >> consumer drives really aren't as good as WD/Seagate (now only WD). >>
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