Hitachi 2 TB Deskstar SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD32000 IDK/7K – Retail
Dec 19, 2009 in
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Hitachi 2 TB Deskstar SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD32000 IDK/7K – Retail
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5 comments
J. Carr on December 20, 2009 at 1:50 am
I’ve dealt with Tiger Direct and would not deal with them again. Do a search on “Tiger Direct” and “scam” and you’ll get 126,000 hits. May be OK if Amazon stands behind it (but didn’t they buy Audible…?).
Home Movie Buff on December 20, 2009 at 2:36 am
Picked up this drive on sale thru Fry’s for $149. Installation of SATA drive was straight forward. The formatting of the drive was not!
The Hitatchi instructions do not give any info on how to format your drive. It merely states to use your Operating System’s drive formatting tools. It would have been nice if they included the basics.
Using Vista’s Classic Control Panel’s Administration tools I kept getting “format could not complete” error messages. Kept trying different settings (quick format, NTFS) and even tried Acronis Disk Director to do the format to no avail.
After researching it for 2 days I found someone else having a similar problem and it turned out I needed an updated BIOS and SATA drivers for my NVIDIA 680 SLI motherboard.
Now it appears to be doing the format, but it has been 11 hours since I started the Format and I’m only at 11% – averaging about 1% an hour. I can’t believe at this rate I’ll be here another 4 days!!!
Not sure if any of this is Hitatchi’s fault, but a better installation guide and web site for trouble shooting would do wonders.
As for the other posts complaining about noise, I don’t notice it. Then again my rig is an Alienware 51 with lots of sound insulation. The drive slot uses plastic hot swap rails so maybe the lack of a metal to metal connection reduces the noises.
L. Wong on December 20, 2009 at 3:01 am
I just pickup one today at Frys, its DOA. Very disappointed. I never used Hitachi Drive before, I purchased because its on sale. This is a bad choice. I’ll stick with Western Digital.
R. Auger on December 20, 2009 at 4:53 am
This drive is a latecomer in the 2TB arena and doesn’t have many reviews, but it is a well loved contender.
I put several of these in a Drobo Raid Enclosure and they work extremely well, maxing out the claimed read/write speeds of the enclosure. This drive is the only affordable 7200rpm 2TB drive. They also start up quickly; when you’ve got four of them in one enclosure, this really matters. Because of this, a lot of people buy these for raids.
The green drives are popular, but the WD and Seagates seem to have a lot of trouble running in raid configurations without flashing the firmware. They can have varying RPMs from eachother set at the factory, not good at all.
Hitachi’s are a bit noisy, my only complaint. But a nice throaty sound at least.
Be sure to look up the firmware in your enclosure or desktop and make sure that it fits a drive this modern and large.
Eduardo Saito on December 20, 2009 at 6:39 am
I use this drive on my Drobo enclosure, together with Seagate and Western Digital models.
I found that this Hitachi drive runs hotter and noiser than Seagate and WD models,
so I cannot recommend it if you’re concerned about temperature or noise level.
Go for the WD Green models instead.
Pros: cheap, 7200K rpm, faster than green models
Cons: noisy, runs hot