Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB Hard Disk

[asian1]

There is a new Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB hard disk.

Is this product reliable?

Is this product compatible with SIL controller or Pegasos board?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hard-disks-reach-500-GB-952.shtml

Desktar, Hitachi’s series of storing solutions, will be joined by a new high capacity member: the 7K500 model. Providing a storing space of 500 GB, this hard disk is the biggest one on the market. Moreover, the model offers a surplus of speed due to the SATA II interface.

[odin]

I wonder how wise it is to name a HD 'Deskstar'....

[Speelgoedmannetje]

odin wrote:
I wonder how wise it is to name a HD 'Deskstar'....

:lol:

[amigean]

true... I can't help but remember the good old IBM "Deathstar" HDDs that would click and hiss after a couple of months...they  were blazingly fast though (when they worked)

[yogisumo]

Still have a few "Deathstars".  Had one that died after about 6 months but the rest still work.  There is/was a firmware update for these drives that helped with the problems they had.

[mikeymike]

My advice is only to get the lowest size disk as possible, but making sure you'll have enough space/slack to do whatever you want to do with it.  From what I've seen, it's the disks that are "pushing the boundaries" at their time that are the most likely to fail.

[shaf]

Hello,

Just to show how reliable Hitachi Deskstar drives are,
IBM will not even buy them anymore.

The Last 2 IBM Servers I configured last week used Maxtor Drives.

My suggestion for drives is top keep to a reasonable size say 120 GB if you require reliability.

Cheers

Shaf

[mikeymike]

And Dell replace their dead Maxtor disks with Seagates, so where do you go from there? :-)

/me waits for someone to say "and x company takes all of the others' dead disks and resells them!" :-D

[bloodline]

I really like Western Digital :-)

[clark]

Funny this should be brought up.

I just had a Deathstar die in on of my PCs.  120 GiB, just over a year old.  

It's the first drive I've ever had die.

[duesi]

I don't buy IBM HDD's anymore. (since the Deathstar syndrom)

As shaf said:
My suggestion for drives is top keep to a reasonable size say 120 GB if you require reliability.

Samsung and Seagate Drives are good.
The WD S-ATA Series are crap. At the moment I replace a lot
of 200GB ones of them.

[Waccoon]

I believe it was the ball bearings that did in the Deathstar.  Most drives these days use fluid bearings.

I love my Hitachi 160GB SATA.  It's quiet and both the unit and the circuits don't get hot.  IBM still makes the integrated controllers for the Hitachi drives, which is a plus, IMO.

I'd be concerned about the 500GB models, though.  More platters means more things to go wrong.

Western Digitals have held up well for me, though they are a tad noisy.  Maxtors are crap.  I've RMA'd four of them (my dad's computer and my boss' computer).  Any Hitachi will be better than a Maxtor!

[Trev]

I've had problems with Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi drives. The moral of this (very short) story is this: pick the drive with the best warranty and buy it from a retailer with great customer service (i.e. *not* CompUSA if you're in the US).

The Dell workstations and HP servers we buy all ship with Seagate drives. Dell isn't exactly tops when it comes to customer service. HP will replace just about anything for any reason (the old Compaq would even replace stuff that was out of warranty), which is great, because those 15K RPM Cheetahs tend to die rather frequently.

[odin]

I've just had a WD Caviar 850 MB die on me....