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Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD
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FWIW - comparing Seagate to Hitachi 1TB HDs... We have encountered a very low failure rate on both - awesome reliability in terms of sheer numbers on both the 7200.11 and the 7K1000s... but in just the actual numbers of units returned - we have shipped far more of the Hitachi 1.0TB out straight as well as in our solutions and had far far fewer failures with the Hitachi. That said - still talking very small numbers that still wouldn't stop me from buying/using a Seagate 1.0TB drive.

I've said this for years... a longer warranty doesn't mean a better drive. Good marketing though.

That said... on Enterprise drives, the longer warranty is good (all Enterprise drives from all HD makers are 5yrs except Samsung that is now 7yrs) - That longer warranty is supposed to ensure that if a drive fails in that RAID-5 of yours, the MFR is supposed to give you an identical replacement down the road so can drop the replacement back in. On non-enterprise drives, the replacement is typically equivalent or better - which is fine except if your setup needs the same exact.
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Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by Joey Cupcakes - 10-17-2008, 06:34 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by rz - 10-17-2008, 06:50 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by tronnei - 10-17-2008, 06:56 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by Seacrest - 10-17-2008, 07:13 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by StingMe - 10-17-2008, 07:27 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by jdc - 10-17-2008, 08:16 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by AllGold - 10-17-2008, 09:09 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by C(-)ris - 10-17-2008, 10:00 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by MikeF - 10-17-2008, 10:44 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by tortoise - 10-17-2008, 11:20 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by OWC Larry - 10-18-2008, 01:45 PM
Re: Opinion: Seagate vs Hitachi HD - by tortoise - 10-18-2008, 05:20 PM

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