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2TB drive: Segate ST2000DL003 or good ol' Samsung HD204UI?
nstgc:
I use to swear by Seagate, but then they started to suck, and not just a little. They started to suck HARD. I don't trust them and I've been hearing all sorts of bad things about their SATA drives (their SAS drives are apparently decent). I personaly have 4 1TB F3s, 1 1.5TB F2, and 1 2TB F4. They are great, and I'd advice you to buy Samsung.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: ColdFission on September 27, 2011, 08:36:39 AM ---Wooh, that's a very impressive server you got there. Are you using SATA RAID cards that support drives beyond the BIOS limited 2.19 TB barrier or are you using and EFI enabled mobo? Really curious on what hardware you're running with your Hitachis.
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Nah. Just attached them to the mobo (I had to find one with eight SATA ports) and used mdadm (Linux). I believe it's EFI, yeah; the Newegg description page is not very helpful.
See this post for exact specs.
--- Quote from: Gamerzhell on September 28, 2011, 12:34:34 AM ---Hitachi sold their HDD division to Western Digital.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-07/western-digital-to-buy-hitachi-unit-for-4-3-billion-in-cash-stock-deal.html
Samsung sold their HDD division to Seagate.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/19/samsung-sells-hdd-division-to-seagate-for-1-375-billion/
WD or Seagate, pick your poison.
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Interesting. I never expected this, especially since I still see Samsung and Hitachi HDDs available for sale, and they're even coming out with new HDDs every so often. They must have received branding rights too.
Lupin:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 27, 2011, 11:39:31 PM ---IIRC Hitachi was purchased by WD recently? Or was that someone else?
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The deal is yet to be finalized. As of now they are separate companies.
nstgc:
Well shit. That sucks
AnimeJanai:
But it sort of explains why in the past few months Hitachi drives have been dumping at my local Fry's megastore instead of the usual maxtor or samsung. It's hard buying a 1TB drive for $54 when the 2TB drive is $69. You can see some of Fry's retail store prices at a non-fry's website below. Individual stores have their own additional bargains that are usually better than the advertised price, particularly if it is to clear something out like unadvertised Compaq desktops for $249 each (everything but the monitor) and it included the latest windows O/S.
http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/
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