What company makes the best hard drives and why is it hitachi?
>No retarded branding gimmicks like WD blue/red/purple/black/green/yellow/whatever else
>Lasts literally forever
>Cheap as fuck
>Noise free, unlike WD's where you can hear the drive over your fans
Hitachi appreciation thread.
>>53755370
>Noise free, unlike WD's where you can hear the drive over your fans
I have a hitachi in my machine as my main drive now and that shit is loud
>>53755370
why shouldn't we cover that hole though?
>>53755889
Better cum in it to investigate.
>>53755919
my WD doesnt explicitly tell me not to cover it
i want to cover one where it says i shouldn't
>>53755700
I have 4tb 7k4000 and I will confirm it is loud when accessing data, but I don't care as HGST drives most reliable.
I killed my drive by getting it out from hot-swap bay and angled it before pallets stopped (never had 5 pallets drives and didn't knew it will take that long to stop) and it was replaced next week with new one.
>>53755957
>I will confirm it is loud when accessing data, but I don't care as HGST drives most reliable.
Same
I just buy Kingston SSDs these days. Before that I bought Hitachi and WD most often.
>>53755889
because it has membrane that normalize pressure inside HDD if altitude or temperature change.
>>53755946
It's for gravitational waves to escape, without the hole the vacuum would fill with waves until the hard drive exploded in electro gasses.
>>53755700
Its loud doing R/W, but I'm using a WD right now where I can literally hear it spinning through my laptop. Shit's driving me up the wall.
>>53755370
They are mostly using older and more robust mechanics, and don't try to cut corners every time they could
>>53756004
>I can literally hear it spinning through my laptop
You shouldn't be using hard disks in your laptop anyway
>>53755981
not sure if that's true or not, i really cant tell
>>53755998
what if i fill it with water, that has waves too
ill just point a fan at it, endless waves
take that, gravity
>>53755370
> >Noise free
> hitachi
Nope. Hearable while active. Not a big deal for me.
>>53756022
WD40 would probably help more than water. That way your hard drive will gain another 5,000rpm and go much faster.
>>53756022
http://www.howtogeek.com/127433/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-do-not-cover-this-hole-hole-on-hard-drives/
First link on google anon
>>53755370
My parents have 1tb hitachi HDD about 6-7 years old as main drive and still woks well. But R/W is loud.
I'm considering using hitachi 3-4tb hdds in my nas
>>53755370
My hgst is loud enough that I turn it off after 5 min of inactivity. I like a silent computing experience.
>>53756083
oh, great, better try it right now
though i dont have any WD40, will melted butter do?
>>53756114
i could always do that
but this is more fun and interesting.
thanks though.
>>53755370
I dunno man, I purchased a WD Blue 4-5 years ago and this year I found an identical WD Blue at work.Now I'm raiding it and sure its loud but its seems pretty solid to me.
Seagate are the best dudes
>>53755370
>why is it hitachi
Because they target the high-end market.
>>53756412
They was good at the beginning. Still have barracuda 20gb with silencing pad. Still working after 10 years.
You are now aware that "hitachi" is the Japanese expression for hi-5.
>>53756513
>implying I didn't know
>>53756218
According to the Johan's law of lubrication and compersion it tells us that butter can be used as a substitute in place of WD40.
>>53756513
Holy fuck
>>53755919
Take a nasty, sick with the flu diarrea shit on it. It'll make it go faster, like it did for my eMachine.
>>53756513
>>53756600
>>53757812
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E7%AB%8B#Japanese
Toshiba.
I've had 3 Hitachi drives fail in my 4 RAID10 arrays over the last 18 months.
>>53755370
Hitachi DeathStar
>>53756412
>trust me dudes
My toshiba are pretty good and were gooddamnly cheap
Western Digital
>>53756513
Hitachi global storage is american faggot weeb
Hitachi brofist
>>53761003
nigger, that was one model over 20 years ago
Seagate Barracuda 3TB. Not even kidding.
>>53755998
>>53755981
>>53756022
It's a hangover from the early 2000s, they found as the rotational velocidensity of the drives increased exponentially, instead of creating new cases, the hole in one case allowed excess density to escape (the faster the rotations the denser the air)
However in recent years the rotations have plateaued, and as such the density, so they can just make new cases and there won't be any real issues, but it's more economical to retain the hole
>>53762192
>tfw mine still running after years
even the shittiest drives can be good senpai
>>53762127
same was about to post toshiba
>>53755370
>falling for the HDD meme
>>53760406
When I was buying hard drives 8 years ago, Seagate was decent and Hitachi was the worst.
>>53755370
because Travelstar was intially manufactured by IBM
Internally, they're the most robust. Magnet held on by three screws instead of force etc. Firmware's pretty reasonable to toy with too, but they do have a tendency to just 'LOL ABR' under failure without telling you why.
>>53755700
I have two of them and they are just bearable.
>>53761003
more like IBM DeathStar
You have no clue what the word "literally" means.
