Good info Betty, thanks. It's hard to keep track of who is actually making hardware these days and I'll be the first to admit my bad feelings about hitachi are not founded in any real facts. To be honest I'm not worried about recovery as 1 of these drives is the main and the other a mirror, which is why I'll be getting two of them.
One other question since it looks like I'll be heading towards hitachi, how is their advance RMA? I've found WD's to be fairly straightforward and fast, hitachi good as well in case I do get a bad drive? I've got one year instant exchange with the wholesaler I'm buying from but after that I'll be dealing with hitachi. Does sony still make the drives in their dvdrw's? I'd heard many of them were liteons? Thanks. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hitachi 0A38016 1 TB SATA II 16 MB 92 bux >> >> Western Digital 10EACS 1 TB SATA II 98 bux >> >> Both carry 3 year warranty. I've got bad feelings about hitachi due to >> past >> experience with just one drive. I'm buying two of these which means I >> could >> save a whopping 12 bux, what does the list think? Any opinions on either >> drive? BTW, I won't be RAIDing the drives so the WD will still be ok if >> that's the pick. >> >> Polls close early, please vote soon and often. >> > > My vote: Hitachi or Seagate [not Maxtor, not low-end Seagate]. Hitachi [as > well as Seagate] makes its own hardware, or carefully oversees the > manufacturing so that the drives contain exactly what Hitachi dictates, > including the chips inside. When a drive fails, a drive recovery firm can > remove the disk and put it into any other Hitachi drive of the same model, > and then work to recover the data. > > Western digital produces specs for their drives, then farms production out > to a variety of manufacturing plants that promise to follow specs. If a WD > drive fails, the data recovery process is more complicated. You have to have > at least a half dozen bare, empty drives before you find one that can "talk" > to the damaged disk. > > Both drives are equally reliable--more or less. As long as you back up your > data frequently it doesn't matter. But if your data is critical, I'd go with > reliable drive companies that oversee the manufacture of their products like > Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi/IBM. I will never buy another Sony drive. > Those are the only drives I've used that failed long before their time. I'm > about to replace a Sony DVD-RW drive with a Pioneer drive to avoid the usual > Sony issues. > > Save often. Backup often, too. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
