[CUBE] Hitachi hard drives

[James Rice]

The high failure rate doesn't surprise me.  Our experience is with the 
ATA line, which considering the price differential comes with a related 
high DOA rate.  In our datacenter we don't use Hitachi/IBM drives, our 
experience is on desktops.  I do have some H-I FC drives at home on my 
Sgi stuff.  They are very loud in a residential environment.  Not it's 
intended location, but it's my stuff.

James

Alan Thompson wrote:

> in my server room(s), i manage over 40 TB of data.  1/2 of it's on 
> hitachi high end fibre disks.  they fail about 2x as often as do their 
> main competitor's disks.
>
> just a little data point.  i have no idea how quiet they are, though 
> :)  data centers are loud as all get out.
>