Very Dubious Reliability, (What's this?) I Bought 3 of these drives last summer, and the short story is that one has never worked reliably, and another of the 3 keeps failing intermittantly. Of the 3 I bout, I could only use 2 for the purpose intended. I wanted to set up a RAID 5 array with Sata 6 speed, but my motherboard only had 2 Sata 6 ports. So I set up a RAID 1 array with the 2 and had to plug the 3rd drive into a Sata 3 port. The drives are supposedly backwards compatible, but it failed after a few weeks. I disconnected it while I waited to return it, got lazy and missed the return deadline. More recently, I thought I would install a 5-drive-in-3 bay, so I could hot-swap bad drives, but the cages are notoriously too big, and can't be installed if you have any hard drive rails or guides in your case. Along the way, I reconnected the bad drive, and it worked - at least initially. But then it failed again within a week. So now it really must be RMA'd (not that I would ever - under any circumstances - willingly order or use another one of these drives).
In the meantime, a second drive is failing intermittently.
Works well, runs cool, and is fast., I purchased three of these drives for a RAID 5 array in my new computer. They have now been in use for about two months with no problems. I appreciate that they are SATA 6, have a 64Mb cache, are only three platters, are very quiet, and run cool for such a drive. They also benchmark very fast (thanks, in part, to the larger cache) though the seek time is a tad slow, likely because of the AAM which reduces seek noise. I wish they had APM enabled to reduce heat and power at idle (and perhaps prolong life), but it is not a deal-breaker by any means. If they remain reliable in the long run, I'll be quite happy with them and definitely recommend them over a Seagate or WD.
Use Caution!!!!, (What's this?) Just wanted to warn any potential buyer about using these disks with Windows 7 (including x64).
High Quality, Great Value, (What's this?) I recently began pursuing a pair of hobbies involving video editing and photography. I have a couple of Mac Book Pro's and a windows desktop machine with 1.2TB of disk space between the three units. My investigations of video editing alerted me that 1 hour of tape could require as much as 13 - 15GB of storage for editing. I was quickly going to run out of storage without some sort of external drive solution. Hitachi has a well earned reputation for having the most reliable drives in the business. They run their drives thru a rigorous development process, and will not release a drive to the general public unless it has passed all key qualification checkpoints. Their drives are a little more expensive than the competition, however, I would much rather pay a few dollars more than subject myself to increased risk of data unavailability or data loss with another drive. I purchased four drives, and they quickly installed in a Synology NAS unit, with no issues and they have been running fine since. The drives have very good performance, run cool, and are also very quiet. So far, I am very pleased with my decision.
Fast quality drive!, (What's this?) I stay away from any drive associated with Seagate as they seem to fail a lot. The Hitachi drives have always been top quality.
Excellent drives, (What's this?) I ordered six of these drives to be used with my Qnap 659 Pro II NAS. It works flawlessly and even when all the drives were building RAID 6 Parity, it was very quiet. I am very happy with the performance of these drives. They may be a little expensive, but I picked it because almost all the SMB NAS manufacturers support these drives (Cisco, Synology, Qnap, Netgear). These drives are running 24/7 in my NAS for over a month and weekly tests and diagnostics tells me they are fine.
In the past, I had very good experience with Hitachi drives and I am going to order six replacement 3TBs soon with similar speed as soon as the prices comes a little down, but before WD acquires Hitachi GST.
In short, absolutely worth spending every penny on these.
Don't Buy This Drive!!!, Bought this drive to replace a failed drive in my server. I have another Hitachi drive in the server that has been going strong 24/7 for over a year! No issues. So after I lost a Seagate I decided to buy another Hitachi because of the great experience. Bad decision. This drive is date stamped Aug-2011. Recorded time/date of death Dec-2011. Not even half a year. That is so poor I'm switching back to WD. Not one WD hard drive for me has ever failed to the point of data loss. I still have some working WD drives that are nearly 20 years old. The fact is hard drives always fail and despite the SMART enabled drives supposed to detect when a hard drive is starting to fail. It rarely ever works. I just am really disappointed that the drive only lasted 4 months.
So far so good, (What's this?) The drive is great when I bought it at the $115 price point. I was appalled by the fact that the price more than doubled when Thailand was flooded. It is a complete rip off at 240 bucks.
H D, (What's this?)
2TB Hard Drive Storage Capacity.Ec0-Friendly, Halogen-Free Design.7200 RPM, 64MB Cache and SATA III 6Gbps.Designed to leverage new platforms and modern operating systems.The Deskstar 7K3000 series is Hitachi's first hard drive to deliver up to an enormous three terabytes of storage capacity and 7200 RPM performance in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. The 7K3000 is also the first Hitachi hard drive with a 6Gb/s SATA interface, which along with its 64MB cache buffer delivers a big boost to performance over the previous generation of Hitachi Deskstars. The Deskstar 7K3000 is designed to allow you to leverage the benefits of the latest components and operating systems to deliver high-performance, high-capacity, power-efficient systems. Designed to deliver high-performance, high-capacity, power-efficient systems.
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