Hitachi Deskstar 2TB Internal SATA Hard Drive $99.99AR Free Shipping (exp: 6/15)

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Hitachi Deskstar 2TB Internal SATA Hard Drive $99.99AR Free Shipping

Newegg has the retail Hitachi Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K 2TB 7200RPM/32MB 3.5" Internal SATA Hard Drive w/ 3yr Warranty for a low $99.99 Free Shipping after rebate and Coupon Code: EMCYTZR25

 

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-TechBargains&cm_mmc=AFC-TechBargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16822145276

 

$20 rebate Exp 6/15/10

[Rajahal]

I can't believe Hitachi still uses the name 'Deskstar'.  It makes me feel uneasy just reading it.  They really should have rebranded after the 'Deathstar' fiasco.

[Printingdude]

Ditto that.  I still call them "Deathstars", even though they don't die like they used to, and I just bought a 2TB yesterday.

[WeeboTech]

The deathstar name was so long ago, what was it... the 75GB drives, man that was ages ago.

 

I think Seagate has more trouble in it's corner these days with the buggy firmware and bleeding edge platter reliability.

[aiden]

I have 2 of these drives, and I have been very happy with them.  Very temped to grab another.

[Rob_Esc]

Running six of these in my rig.  Very nice so far.

Better brand than Muchtubitchy.

[WeeboTech]

Running six of these in my rig.  Very nice so far.

Better brand than Muchtubitchy.

 

Hey Rob_Esc, what's the throughput on these drives if you do the DD write test?

 

dd if=/dev/zero of="/mnt/disk?/test.dd" count=4000000 bs=1024

[Nyago123]

The deathstar name was so long ago, what was it... the 75GB drives, man that was ages ago.

 

I think Seagate has more trouble in it's corner these days with the buggy firmware and bleeding edge platter reliability.

 

Agree, and agree.  Actually, I think I had a 20GB and/or a 40GB that failed (in fact, one may still be on one of my bookshelves somewhere... gotta throw stuff out more often  )  But the issue and IBM's poor handling of it at the time turned me off on the whole brand for years until I bought one 2TB for my parity drive last month.

 

While I only have the one Deskstar, it does click noticeably louder than my any of my other unRAID drives (6 x WD20EADS and 2 x ST32000542AS).  I like the idea of 7200 rpm on the parity drive, but I don't feel that I need that on any other drive and minimizing power and heat are a bigger priority.

 

As for the 2 Seagate 2TBs I have, one had a hard error and subsequently showed 111 reallocated sectors.  An unRAID parity check took care of that, but I will definitely RMA it one way or another before the warranty expires (sometime in late 2012).  I also had fits with the 1.5TB Seagates against 2 mobos and any variety of cables and controllers.

 

So right now it's kinda WD or bust for me... but I can be always bribed with a enough of a Good Deal  

[Rob_Esc]

 

Hey Rob_Esc, what's the throughput on these drives if you do the DD write test?

 

dd if=/dev/zero of="/mnt/disk?/test.dd" count=4000000 bs=1024

 

4000000+0 records in

4000000+0 records out

4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 128.599 s, 31.9 MB/s

 

 

[aiden]

 

Hey Rob_Esc, what's the throughput on these drives if you do the DD write test?

 

dd if=/dev/zero of="/mnt/disk?/test.dd" count=4000000 bs=1024

 

4000000+0 records in

4000000+0 records out

4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 128.599 s, 31.9 MB/s

A little corroboration...

 

4000000+0 records in

4000000+0 records out

4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 116.142 s, 35.3 MB/s

 

[WeeboTech]

Good Numbers, thanks guys.

[prostuff1]

Good Numbers, thanks guys.

 

I have two of these drives in my server and when i get home tonight (work blocks ssh access) I will try to remember and run the above command and see what numbers come back.

[WeeboTech]

Keep the numbers coming.

I've been curious about using the Hitachi 2TB 7200 RPM's for a parity drive.

 

Although, I do have a special setup.

Just for comparison here are my numbers using Seagate 1.5TB 7200RPM drives in a special arrangement.

 

4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 99.0628 s, 41.3 MB/s

 

My eyes almost popped out for a second.

 

Here's my arrangement.

 

Areca ARC-1200 using PCIe X1 using 2 Seagate 1.5TB 7200RPM drives in a "SAFE" arrangement.

 

The areca allows you to take multiple drives and build a "set" of raid drives.

Then carve them up into logical "arrays" using various raid levels.

 

So with the two drives I was able to build the "SAFE" arrangement I've always wanted.

RAID0 on the outer tracks of two drives totaling 2TB.

RAID1 on the inner tracks of two drives totalling 350GB.

 

/dev/md4               1.6T    34M   1.6T   1% /mnt/disk4 (Seagate 1.5TB 7200RPM)

/dev/sdl1              350G    34M   350G   1% /mnt/cache (RAID1 SAFE Drive on ARC-1200 Inner Tracks)

/dev/md5               2.1T   897G   1.2T  45% /mnt/disk5 (WD EADS 2TB 5400RPM)

/dev/md3               1.6T   5.2G   1.5T   1% /mnt/disk3 (Seagate 1.5TB 5900 RPM).

/dev/md1               1.1T   916G    85G  92% /mnt/disk1 (Seagate 1TB 7200RPM) Almost full !

 

FWIW, the Arc-1200 can be scored on eBay anywhere from $75-$99 used. Well worth my purchase price considering the performance boost.

 

I decided to do some other benchmarks for comparison.

 

 

1.5TB Seagate 7200RPM -> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 99.0628 s, 41.3 MB/s

2TB WD EADS -> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 134.795 s, 30.4 MB/s

1.5TB  Seagate 5900RPM -> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 123.71 s, 33.1 MB/s

1TB Seagate 7200RPM -> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 110.524 s, 37.1 MB/s (Almost full!)

RAID1 Cache -> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 60.5416 s, 67.7 MB/s (for kicks).

 

I'm wondering how a set of the Hitachi 2TBs would show up in this type of an arrangement.

Keep in mind the ARC-1200 is a caching controller. The only drives on it are the PARITY and CACHE.

The other drives tested are all on the motherboard, No other activity was occurring during these tests.

I would test other drives, only I know they will show around 29-32MB/s as the other 10 drives are WD EACS and EADS 1tb drives.

 

What I need to test are the Samsung Spinpoint F3's which have tremendous read performance.

But that's for another day.

[kizer]

Funny thing I still have one of those DeathStars in a P1.7 I use now and then for a MP3 Jukebox. Don't worry I've long backed up my music on to a larger drive and my network.

 

Drive still works to this day, which I'm always the one that buys the thing that has issues and dies. 75gig and still rockin it now and then.