Nobody tried/tested/reviewed the Hitachi Deskstar 7k250 yet?

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 4:16 am

I am currently looking for a new set of harddrives. My old 740DX gives me a headache

I am very curious to see how the new Hitachi/IBM Deskstar 7k250 do. But up to so far i haven't found any user experiences nor reviews.

I was hoping someone here has purchased one of these babies or might have seen a decent review.

UrbanVoyeur · Post by **UrbanVoyeur** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:06 am

why not a seagate?

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:33 am

Because i love raid 0. And i dont have to tell you that the Seagate sucks in raid.

UrbanVoyeur · Post by **UrbanVoyeur** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:46 am

I didn't know the seagate's were bad at RAID 0. Any idea why that is?

Is this hardware or software RAID?

Even the ones with 8 mb cache?

Harry Azol · Post by **Harry Azol** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 12:54 pm

I thought the seagate raid0 problem only applied to the baracuda IV... and even then, there was an updated firmware which was supposed to fix the problem..

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:15 am

Nope, seagate still does pretty bad.

One of my favorite dutch websites did a test. Just have a look at the first picture.
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/384/8

You can see that Seagate comes last both with the V and the 7200.7

But we are going a bit offtopic here

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:27 pm

OK first review: http://www.hardwareluxx.de/cgi-bin/ubb/ ... 6&t=000028

Warning it is in German

Second review: http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/893/index.html

Warning it is in Italian

this one i cannot read

but hey http://babelfish.altavista.com/ helps

NickB · Post by **NickB** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:48 pm

7200.7 = 14% worse than best? Surely not that much of a price to pay?

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 1:01 am

In the first review they say the 7K250 is also very quiet. Hopefully someone here on the SPCR Forum is going to be the guinee pig.

Gnerma · Post by **Gnerma** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 1:14 am

Shuriken wrote:Hopefully someone here on the SPCR Forum is going to be guinee pig.

I vote Shuriken

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:42 am

Gnerma wrote:
Shuriken wrote:Hopefully someone here on the SPCR Forum is going to be guinee pig.
I vote Shuriken

Don't count on it

I want to wait until the S-ATA becomes available. Which i haven't see around here so far. Second of all i am going to wait for a review of one of the bigger websites. To see if it is actually that good...

Choy · Post by **Choy** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:45 am

Seems like shuriken found a guinea pig

Some ppl over at Storage seem to be happy, measuring by their standards.

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.p ... hl=hitachi

UrbanVoyeur · Post by **UrbanVoyeur** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 4:38 am

So according to them it has an annoying calibration noise, and in general, may not be as quiet as a Seagate unless accoustic management is enabled - which as we know impacts performance.

I vote for the Seagate.

moshen · Post by **moshen** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:47 am

i'm starting to shy away from the deskstar drives... i've had 3 die on me this year at home and 2 more died at work. all of them were under 3 years old.

granted none of them were this model but all of them emit a very annoying whine.

Nobody tried/tested/reviewed the Hitachi Deskstar 7k250 yet?

Nobody tried/tested/reviewed the Hitachi Deskstar 7k250 yet?

Worst?