Now $145: Retail 3TB Hitachi shipped Amazon

[Evadman]

format MBR or GPT ??

GPT.

 

[shortylickens]

I've gone through dozens of hard drives in my life and found deskstars fail just as much as every other brand. Had a couple of supposedly Enterprise class WD's and they both failed within a month.
Its a crap shoot. Best bet is to test them yourself when they first arrive.

Also it seems I get fewer failures of all sorts when I use a quality power supply.

 

[Nebor]

I got 4 of them in a NAS. They've been running for almost 2 weeks with no problems in an unventilated cabinet (drive temps around 115F.) Doesn't get much better than that.

http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x147/Nebor/NAS/

 

[VirtualLarry]

What Brand/Model NAS is that?

 

[Nebor]

What Brand/Model NAS is that?

Netgear Ultra 4.

 

[SimMike2]

Not sure if previous versions of Windows did this, but I know that Windows 7 started repeatedly warning me that I should backup one of my WD hard drives. Sure enough I ran diagnostics and it needed servicing. I was able to backup all the data before sending it in. I RMA'd a 640GB Blue drive and got a 1T Black in return, so WD did good.

 

[jjmIII]

I RMA'd a 640GB Blue drive and got a 1T Black in return, so WD did good.

OT: but was it refurb? or new?

IMO no warranty should be a refurb.....hear that Seabait?? I sent in a month old drive and get a reburb. There goes resale!

 

[Evadman]

Netgear Ultra 4.

Sadly, the drives do not work on the three Netgear NV+'s that I have. 2TB max. They will only work on the x86 based NASs from Netgear.

 

[Nebor]

Sadly, the drives do not work on the three Netgear NV+'s that I have. 2TB max. They will only work on the x86 based NASs from Netgear.

You have to update the firmware on the Ultras in order to support the 3tb drives.

 

[bradley]

Up to $145 now. Though based on the price history, it looks like Amazon is clearing inventory of Hitachi. I'm going to wait for the next price drop.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Hitachi-Deskstar-CoolSpin-Internal-0S03228/product/B004QMA882

 

[godschylde777]

Just to give an actually applicable and useful view of the reliability of the Hitachi 3TB drives, take a look at this article:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

TL;DR: "We are constantly looking at new hard drives, evaluating them for reliability and power consumption. The Hitachi 3TB drive (Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630) is our current favorite for both its low power demand and astounding reliability. The Western Digital and Seagate equivalents we tested saw much higher rates of popping out of RAID arrays and drive failure. Even the Western Digital Enterprise Hard Drives had the same high failure rates. The Hitachi drives, on the other hand, perform wonderfully."

Hi Im new, just been reading a lot of threads. This is somthing that has happened to me with my WDs, They keeping kicking out of raid. I have now replaced the power supply thinking maybe I didnt have enough power, but now I see that this is a problem with them.