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Author Topic: How do they keep selling Hitachi Deskstars!? Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-02-2012 03:09 AM                     Seriously. They were unacceptably unreliable when IBM had the division. You'd think by now Hitachi would have stabilized them. Or at least changed the name...jeez. I ended up with 2 of these pieces of duke today. The first one had the click of death straight away and has been exchanged for a seagate. The other kept refusing to join the raid and now is being looking more and more like a headcrash situation. The drives were sold as "new" TODAY. Friggin Fry's, man. And Friggin Hitachi!  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 03-02-2012 06:56 AM                     You mean IBM Deathstars?  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-02-2012 02:58 PM                     I suppose so. Hitachi has owned it for the last ... 8-10 years at least. Either way. What a piece of junk. Never again.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-02-2012 03:00 PM                        This is why it is a bad idea to buy consumer-grade hard disks. The Hitachi Ultrastars are fine.  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 03-02-2012 04:59 PM                     Yeah I know they're Hitachi's now, but the joke going around back in the IBM days was that they were Deathstars  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-02-2012 07:33 PM                        Never heard of 'em.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-02-2012 08:09 PM                     They're the official hard drive of Galactic Empire...  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-02-2012 08:30 PM                     ....and I still have a computer with a Deskstar still spinning away..built in 2000.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-02-2012 10:29 PM                     I have a computer with a 10GB hard drive in it...still running. You can figure out the date.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-03-2012 08:05 PM                     I have several of these that I use for err.... storage of things, and they're fine after several years of use. I did have one fail, but that one was dropped on the floor by accident. Come to think of it, I've never had any brand hard drive fail yet (knock on wood).  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 03-05-2012 01:40 AM                     Personally I've had mediocre experience with Maxtor. I feel like their quality has gone down hill over the years. I still have a 500mb Conner and a Samsung of the same vintage in a couple old boxes that still run. But Samsung is quality in just about everything. Lately it seems like Western Digital has them all beat though. Been running some of these bad-boys for upwards of 10 years no problem. Heck, I had a 20gb in a box that's NEVER turned off. Got it used and the machine was up for about 2 years without a reboot until the drive eventually failed. But the history is anybody's guess. Spinning some Seagates in this box now, we'll see. In the past they weren't the best but they did ok.  |  IP: Logged

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