[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Bruce Markowitz]

Nope. IBM/Hitachi drives are deathstars. And they traditoinally die without
any warning at all.
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Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?


> In <9fcb152c0704061744mc5c0214m2e4d35323306a764 at mail.gmail.com>, on
> 04/06/2007
>    at 05:44 PM, "Paul Khoury" <khourypa at gmail.com> said:
>
>
>
> >On 4/6/07, Canyonlands Computer Raypair <canyonlands at gmail.com> wrote: >
> >We put one or the other in all our laptop repairs... We have had three >
> >Seagates come back out of 50.  Seagate sent us replacments within days.
> >No > Scorpio failures yet, but we use a lot more Seagates due to the
> >longer > warranty.
>
> >5 years is pretty nice.  Hitachi is what, 3 years?  And guaranteed to
> >fail in 37 months?
>
> I have three that have out-lived that point.   Perhaps its the machine
> handeling that is at the core of yoru experience.
>
>
>
>
> >>
> >> God Help us if we are ever forced to go back to Hitachi deathstars.
> >>
> >I hear you on this one.  Words I cannot use on this list would be most
> >appropriate for the experiences I've had with Hitachi drives.  Even when
> >IBM made Deathstars, they were still incredibly bad.  I used to really
> >like Maxtor because they would do cross shipments, but I don't think
> >Seagate does that.  Are the Toshibas or Fujitsu's any good? I've seen a
> >few of these in ThinkPads, but very seldom.
>
> >Paul
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