Hi Bob, 

 >PK>> Of the 3 Hitachi drives I have had the longest one lasted
31  >PK>> months, the shortest 14 months.......;-(
 >
 >RT> Here , a mate of mine has lost 3 x Hitachi 
 >RT> 160Gig. HDDS all within the first 6 weeks ....
 >
 > Yikes! I hadn't realised there were such serious 
 > issues with the Hitachi drives??

 BS>       Could they have been relabelled IBM DeathStar's, errr .....  
BS> DeskStar's left over from Hitachi's takeover of IBM's drive 
 BS> business?  That could explain a lot.  :)

My Hitachi drive failures were from about 8-10 years ago so thats highly
unlikely........;-) I think all manufacturers have a product range that is
"bad" every now and then, Unfortunately Hitachi has been one of
the worst for me. They were quiet drives though, the noise from me when
they failed made up for that though.....;-)

Cheers.............pk.


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