- Hitachi Deathstar
- Posted by Fabien LE LEZ on August 27th, 2006
Hello,
I just saw that Hitachi still sells 80 GB "Deskstar" hard drives.
Is it the same line of products that was nicknamed "Deathstar"?
[The question is not so important, since the WD is at the same price,
but I'm just curious. Actually, it's to replace a true IBM® Deathstar™
that makes weird noises instead of working properly.]
- Posted by Rod Speed on August 27th, 2006
Fabien LE LEZ <gramster@gramster.com> wrote
Nope, those were the 75GXP and 60GXP drives.
The current 80G deskstar is a 7K250, 7K160 or 7K80 .
- Posted by Arno Wagner on August 27th, 2006
Previously Fabien LE LEZ <gramster@gramster.com> wrote:
According to Odie (who has a reasonable sample of defective drives)
the newer Hitachi drives seem to be reasonably reliable.
Arno
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on August 27th, 2006
"Fabien LE LEZ" <gramster@gramster.com> wrote in message news:gpp1f2dpcmuqpda8rg851u0d80gfbq5pn6@4ax.com
No, really?
Yep, going back 15 years or more and still going strong.
If you actually knew what a 'true' Deathstar was then you obviously
would not be asking this question.
Troll turd flushed where it belongs.
- Posted by Neill Massello on August 28th, 2006
Fabien LE LEZ <gramster@gramster.com> wrote:
Yes and no. Deskstar was IBM's name for their family of 3.5 inch ATA
hard drives, encompassing many models over many years. The specific
models that earned (and deserved) the "Deathstar" nickname were the
75GXP and 60GXP, both discontinued before Hitachi bought IBM's hard
drive business a few years ago. To my knowledge, neither of those models
ever bore the Hitachi brand, and no model released by IBM or Hitachi
since then has had anything like their high failure rates.
I've currently got five (two online and two backup) Hitachi Deskstar
250GB SATA drives. The oldest (one of the online drives) has been in
service for 13 months. Fast and quiet. No failures, data loss, or other
problems.
Every manufacturer has shipped lemon drives at some time. There are no
guarantees. I don't know of any unusual complaints about recent WD or
Deskstar models.
- Posted by Fabien LE LEZ on August 28th, 2006
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:16:33 GMT, neillmassello@earthlink.net (Neill
Massello):
Yep. That's why I don't bother with expensives drives, at least at
work: I've got a server with a RAID-5 array, containing all the data,
and for the workstations I just grab the cheapest disks I can find.
Changing a hard drive on a workstation doesn't take more than a few
minutes anyway (including restoring the system from a ghost).
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on August 29th, 2006
"Neill Massello" <neillmassello@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:1hkoy26.1pklhx06qug88N%neillmassello@earthlin k.net
Not as commercially sold, but Hitachi may have (had?) a few in store for
warranty replacement. I think I once had an IBM DMVS drive back for
warranty, labeled Hitachi, made for IBM.
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on August 29th, 2006
"Fabien LE LEZ" <gramster@gramster.com> wrote in message news:d207f2psoic4nn61f4bj2s1em3m1bknl96@4ax.com
Thanks for making that up, babblebot.
