Reliable Hard Drive: Hitachi Or Toshiba

Hey guys,

I am cleaning up my stuffs and selling it. I have an extra 80 GB external hd (make it w/ Toshiba 80 GB HD and enclosure).

I recently bought a new external hd, WD My Passport, 160 GB.

Now since I don't need an extra external hd, I was thinking to switch my laptop's Hitachi 40 GB HD to the 80 GB one, and just sell 40 GB external hd.

But I am worrying about reliable of these hd.

My laptop is at least 4 years old, I bought it used one, came with the 40 GB Hitachi hd.

My previous laptop also had a Toshiba hard drive, which I sold it. But after two years of using it, the hd started to act funny, it stopped when the computer booting...and start again after 20 seconds. And then after I sold, few months later, the buyer emailed me that the hd was dead.

I bought the 80 GB HD at techforless.com, open box. I don't remember when, but around two years ago.

Storage isn't a concern, but performance and reliability.

So yeah, which one of these hd is more reliable?

Model Number:
Hitachi: DK23FB-40
Toshiba: MK8026GAX

Oh yea, I almost forgot, both of these hds are working normally.

Thanks guys

 

It doesn't matter. If you can ballpark it, whichever one has been used less is probably a safer bet, run an HD Tune benchmark and take a look at the SMART values to see if anything glares out at you. If performance and reliability is a concern, sell them both and buy a new one.

 

Since the Toshiba drive is a newer model it is very likely to be faster than the Hitachi.

 

exactly what jb1007 said.
Run hdtune, compare harddrive performance, the smart values and make sure to run scandisc on the drive to make sure that the drive is running properly.
Usually hitachi has good reliability, but after 4 years of beating, drives usually arent as strong as they are as new.

K-TRON

 

Thanks guys.

The problem is I am not sure if the hd originally came with the laptop...it could have been switch.

 

You can check the MM/YY of manufacturing/marketing printed on the top side of the HDD.

 

Both drive manufactuers make quite reliable drives. Niether is better than the other in terms of reliability.

 

toshiba sucks..... go for seagate.... u wont loose a thing, best performance ever ad great power consumption.... if its not seagate, go for western digital, samgung.... the best... seagate... hitachi is good though..... but never toshiba.

 

What I said.

 

jav1563, toshiba actually makes pretty good drives. I have a hunch that Toshiba and Samsung actually manufacture all of the harddrive platters in their joint manufacturing plants in Korea.
Just choose the one which is faster and has the best smart readings.
Plus, I think you should keep both drives, cause if you were to sell either of them, you would make about $40 or less, so keeping it is a better choice, its not like it takes up much room at all

K-TRON

 

I agree with K-Tron on this. I don't think you need to stress too much between these two brands; if it was Seagate/WD/Maxtor/... , then maybe, but these two drives should have similar reliability.

 

Thank you. I will stick with Hitachi and sell the Toshiba...thanks again guys.

 

I did the HD Tune on my Hitachi hd. My external Toshiba HD will not show information about health of the hd.

Can somebody tell if my Hitachi what either running ok? TIA

 

I believe Seagate's are a failure rate of .67% per year. Look up Hitachi? I don't think it matters. Needle in the haystack and all.

 

That harddrive power on time is not hours, that is minutes. That is 2.6724 years of continuous run time, which is quite a lot for a laptop harddrive. I am surprised the harddrive lasted that long. 23410hours is much longer than a harddrive should run for. Usually laptop harddrives peak at 10,000 hours of operation. Obviously hitachi went beyond that, and its still working good.
The drive has definitely had its use, and proven reliable, you just dont know if it will last that much longer. It has already spun a few million times.

K-TRON

 

Ok, cool. Thanks K-Tron. Since I have no sign of wearing down, I guess my hd is going pretty good.