I am looking for  opinions on these two drives, a Seagate ST33000651AS and a Hitachi H31IK30003272SW.

Newegg has the Seagate on sale for 72 hours at 159.99 the same as the Hitachi, as I am looking for a couple of 7200 rpm

drives right now I thought I would get some opinions on these two drives.

I am looking for  opinions on these two drives, a Seagate ST33000651AS and a Hitachi H31IK30003272SW.

Newegg has the Seagate on sale for 72 hours at 159.99 the same as the Hitachi, as I am looking for a couple of 7200 rpm

drives right now I thought I would get some opinions on these two drives.

 

 

Hitachi.  Without question.

 

Look at the stickies on which 2T and which 3T drives should I buy.

+1 Hitachi.

Hitachi seems to be the best right now. Backblaze had a newer blog post about how they build their servers and in that they wrote they see about a 5% failure rate with Seagate and WD but only a 1% failure rate with Hitachi.

 

Peter

Hitachi.  Without question.

 

Look at the stickies on which 2T and which 3T drives should I buy.

 

+1 Hitachi, as bjp said, the 2TB and 3TB models are just incredible.  I will have a moment of silence when Hitachi officially closes the shop.

+1 Hitachi, as bjp said, the 2TB and 3TB models are just incredible.  I will have a moment of silence when Hitachi officially closes the shop.

 

+1! I plan on grabbing another 2 or 3 3TB Hitachis when they go back on sale in Canada! I finally swapped out my parity drive with a 3TB Hitachi, and added a second as a data drive, and they are running great. Already have 2 more 2TB Hitachis in the system.

 

Love them!

 

+1 Hitachi, as bjp said, the 2TB and 3TB models are just incredible.  I will have a moment of silence when Hitachi officially closes the shop.

 

LOL. Agreed, that'll be a sad day!

I'm currently running 7 Hitachis (2TB), will jump the bandwagon with a 3TB 5K3000 as soon as they go on sale here in Australia.

Well it looks like I will be purchasing some hitachi's at the next sale. thanks guys.