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Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted
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On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:22, Jason A. Crome wrote:
> I can't imagine a higher failure rate than we've had with Hitachi drives.
> Of the 15 or so servers we've built for customers using Hitachi drives over
> the last 2 years, 6 of them came back after about a year of operation with
> catastrophic drive failures.  And unfortunately it wasn't just a bad batch
> of drives - they were manufactured at entirely different times.
> 
> Sooooo, I guess give the two options, I'd say Seagate ;-)

Isn't the current Hitachi drive business just IBM's old drive business,
which they offloaded a couple years back when they were having the high
failure rates of the DeskStar 75?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/04/0050238

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002may/gee20020605012041.htm

	Scott