Seagate VS Hitachi

which one better for 2.5" drive;

Seagate 5400k? or Hitachi 5400k drives?

which one is more reliable?

 

both are excellent drives. the segate ones get greast reviews i dont see you going wrong with either one..

 

As of my experiences, they're both the same, but i guess if you really want a "high quality" or more of a "name brand" check out Western Digital

 

Well you get a slight speed advantage with the hitachi, but then again you do get a 5 year warranty with the seagate.

 

HITACHI HDD perform better than Seagate

 

hitachi are also a lot louder then the segate..normally

 

I have never used a seagate before but......I only hear my 7200rpm drive when the room is dead silent...when it is....it is pretty loud LOL

 

thanks guys, the reason i ask is because i usually own seagate HDD or western digital desktop drive. i never own a hitachi notebook drive. so in term of reliability does hitachi drive delivers?

 

^^ yes most definatly they do they are great drives. depending on the price though if they are more than the segate or wd drives i would just go with one of them..

 

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thanks bigspin according to them the Hitachi is the best performing, cooler, draw less power, dissipate less heat, and the most reliable!!

wow my macbook pro comes with them! i'm happy now can anyone confirm that hitachi rulez at this point in time?

 

OOOOO yes i agree

my hitachi 7200rpm is running 10C (no jokes) cooler than my old 4200rpm toshiba!

 

10C

It can't happen?

Are you sure?

 

oooooo yes i am.....from 45C down to ummm 29 at the moment actually.....usually around 33C

 

I got a seagate instead of a hitachi for my 2nd replacement c90. It is much much cooler the hitachi made the left palm rest less "scorchy" sometimes but the seagate even under full load is pretty cool. Its also a bit quieter but nothing drastic.

 

I had 4 seagate disks die on me within days of each others a few months ago.

To be fair, though:
1: They were desktop drives, so it might not mean anything for notebook ones
2: They were all the same model (3 of them were replacements for the prior one, which failed), so they were probably all from the same batch, which may have been faulty.

But still, I'll probably avoid Seagate in the future.

 

I read a great article on "reliable hard drives" It stated that Seagate, Hitachi, and Fujitsu had the best notebook drives....Western Digital and Maxtor was rated the worst in desktops and came in 5th or 6th in notebooks....
Seagate also came in first in desktops as well.

 

I used Western Digital before because of its "name brand" but they failed within a week of use. I had to RMA it and its been working fine since. (knock on wood)
I have a friend who has dual WD drives and one of them failed.
If I have a choice again, I would choose Seagate. Never had a problem with their drives.

 

Hitachi is the way to go. Have two 7K200's in my lappy. I dont ever hear them they are whisper quiet.

K-TRON

 

everyone has to remember the nature of these drives. they are all prone to failure.. and pretty much everyone will tell you they have had a bad experience with brand x as opposed to brand y.. i know i have used wd drives for years as well as hitachi even before they bought ibm's drive division.. and lots of people had tons of issues with the ibm's back then.. i say it really doesnt matter to much as long as you buy it from either a reputable seller or buy a drive with a warranty.

i do wish i could have got a couple of those hitachi's from best buy when they were on sale if i could have id be using them now.

 

Agreed. Just get whichever one is the better deal right now from your preferred seller........

 

according to the 2.5" HDD charts on tomshardware, my Hitachi 7200RPM drive has higher idle and full power draw. that means less battery life and more heat for me though i can't say for sure it really affects me. you can definately hear it though, not a very quiet drive when used in a quiet environment. I probably would have went for a higher capacity 5400RPM drive, but this ones not too shabby.

 

For 7200RPM drives, currently Hitachi is in the lead thanks to their use of a 16MB caches versus 8MB caches that most 7200.2s employ.

 

in terms of reliability, hitachi ranks first.

 

ok guys thanks. i think i'm comfortable with the hitachi. thank you again. btw, i was looking at the 160GB 5400rpm one.

 

personally i hate the hitachi travelstar series, i've had 3 die on me in a span of 2 yrs, all 7200RPM version, only 60 gb too. Had Western Digital Desktop drives die on me left and right as well, never had a Seagate fail on me either Desktop or Laptop. Can't go wrong with 5 yr warranty from Seagate either.

 

i am not a huge fan of hitachi, mostly because they tend to have rather noisy drives. my current notebook has a hitachi that isn't noisy, but 3 other notebooks that i've used w/ hitachis were annoyingly loud. dell (seagate) hds are pretty well priced....you can get a 160 gb 7200 rpm for $125 pretax and a little cheaper if you're a student.

 

in general, seagate is the quitest of the lot. with HDD it is a matter of luck. but why oh why, reliability of products nowdays tends too be falling than before the turn of the century (pushing the limit of technology too fast i bet.. things are incredibly complex, with too little test done on them, they just want things to get to the market ASAP.)