Re: And the winner for HDD durability is.....

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

The article doesn't really state if the sample sizes of any particular
drive model are significant.  It also doesn't state if conditions -
cooling, vibration levels, etc. - were identical.  As such, I wouldn't go
much beyond calling this anecdotal.

As Alan mentioned, it doesn't seem like all brands were represented.  No
mention of Toshiba, for instance.

Also, drawing generalizations about consumer hardware when it's used in the
enterprise seems questionable.  Hitachi may perform best when used 24x7 but
if, say, the drives had resume-from-sleep firmware bugs or stiction issues,
that would only come into play in consumer applications where the drives
spin up/down more often.

My own anecdotal "evidence" directly contradicts theirs.  I have 15 Seagate
drives in my home server (2 RAID5 arrays: 9x2TB and 6x3TB) + a few others
scattered and have not suffered a single failure in recent years.  With
zero failures they've been perfectly reliable to me.  I have no recent
experience with other brands for platter-based drives; I buy the Seagates
as I know they work in RAID arrays (not all consumer drives do).  And
they're cheap enough that if one does fail I'm not going to worry much
about it.




On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:51 AM, TheBorg <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps,  but 'Travelstar' was a brand started by IBM.
>
> Hitachi acquired the disk drive business from IBM several years ago.  I
> have
> also personally had more bad luck with Seagate and Western Digital hdd's
> than with Hitachi.
>
>
>
> "Alan Cassidy"  wrote in message
> news:mailman.759.1390406586.25182.pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
>
> Glancing at that article, it seems as though the numbers were crunched for
> the drives that they were using.
>
> Might there be other brands that did not get counted because they had not
> used them, even considering that they did some research before they even
> made the original purchases?
>
>
> Alan Cassidy
>
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> Hitachi!
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> http://www.infoworld.com/t/hard-drives/buying-hard-drive-stats-say-get-hitachi-avoid-seagate-234686?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-01-21
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