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facialfreak · 11-01-2011, 11:19 PM

Hitachi is one of the BEST internal drives you can buy ... a bit pricier than WD or SeaGate, but much more reliable, and yes many other big name drives have HITACHI heads and head stack assemblies ...

I use Hitachi drives only on all of my own builds, and try to talk most clients into Hitachi for the extra couple of dollars ...

To give you an example of the quality I strive for in my builds, I also use mostly all TYAN motherboards too!

So to answer your original question ... buying brand name drives will save you alot of headaches and future issues .. but keep in mind also that almost ALL HDD makes have a 1 in 30 (ish) DOA rate ... its one of them things you cannot predict or prevent ... so return the drive to your POS and try another.

11-01-2011, 11:19 PM
facialfreak Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Montreal Posts: 3,018	Hitachi is one of the BEST internal drives you can buy ... a bit pricier than WD or SeaGate, but much more reliable, and yes many other big name drives have HITACHI heads and head stack assemblies ... I use Hitachi drives only on all of my own builds, and try to talk most clients into Hitachi for the extra couple of dollars ... To give you an example of the quality I strive for in my builds, I also use mostly all TYAN motherboards too! So to answer your original question ... buying brand name drives will save you alot of headaches and future issues .. but keep in mind also that almost ALL HDD makes have a 1 in 30 (ish) DOA rate ... its one of them things you cannot predict or prevent ... so return the drive to your POS and try another. __________________ Managed Shared Hosting starting at $4.99/mo Managed VPS starting at $29.99/mo