Results And Conclusions
Conclusions
Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the more than 200 Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors. All failures were due to physical impacts caused by the users. Adding the highest average lifespans and the best relationship between failures and market share, Hitachi can be regarded as the winner here. But don't take that as a blanket to cover the whole storage market. It's only the case in this study, which we've already said several times is extremely limited. With that said, research data covering the hard drive market is sparse, which is why this study remains interesting. The study is limited to a specific market segment in Eastern Europe, and only includes drives that were analyzed at Storelab. In it, we have user-triggered failures, as well as design failures.
What Does the Study Mean for the Average Consumer?
Our recommendations focus mainly on avoiding issues due to mechanical damage and high temperatures. If you have a hard drive from one of the manufacturers in this article installed in your computer, perhaps you should take a look at the results and consider whether you need to be more cautious and modify your installation. Using anti-vibration parts (like rubber grommets) when mounting the hard drive, monitoring its temperatures, using adequate cooling, and handling it carefully can make a big difference in reliability and durability. If you know the weaknesses of the manufacturers, you also know what preventative measures you can leverage to keep your own storage safe.
Source and Graphics: Storelab.ru
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These figures are totally irrelevant. you can not compair the drives sent in to be representitive of the market. For example the people who use data recoverty services are not the owners of low cost computers but more likly to be enterprise drives. WD do not even manufature SAS drives, while Seagate are the market leader in this area, so this would explain the large disparity in the figures.
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I'm guessing Tom's is counting Toshiba and Fujitsu as seperate as they were 5 years ago when this trial was seems to have started.
Interestingly, the Air Jordan shoe suffers from a high rate of spindle slip and a resultant electromagnetic dither that is reproducible in the lab.
Is this what you were getting at sssooo?
Or are you just a worthless spammer?
hollett - the Seagate 7200.## series aren't SAS drives. All the drives in the survey are consumer devices. I would guess that if storelab had included enterprise and network storage specific drives they could have made the sample size much larger.
Strangely enough Seagates enterprise HD's are excellent products I've found. Maybe the two divisions need some tech sharing.
@ Astrowhiz. The total sales figures they use don't specify if they include just consumer or all drives. So I would assume all drives. Also Seagate 7200 NS is a popular Tier 2 or Near Line Storage SATA drive. Although the firmware on the 7200.10 was shocking.
Wheee!! If Toms aren't shilling Hitachi like the world was about to end then they're really not picking good articles to hint at any concept of impartiality
Annoying Fact: Drives sent to data recovery firms are not there for a holiday. Their users have mission-critical data on them that needs to be retrieved, and its not cheap. Not one bit. Therefore the bulk of 3.5" drives and quite a few 2.5" drives going through such a company will be enterprise or server drives which have feck-all to do with standard desktop models. So this article has no bearing on regular users.
Except to shill Hitachi drives, that is.
Amusing footnote: Through experience in the industry, in the domestic space the F1 and particularly F3 drive lines from Samsung seem least failure prone. WD on the other hand are pretty bad, especially with older and higher-capacity drives. And Hitachi's newer high-capacity 3.5" HDDs are the worst of the lot, with a good few enthusiasts who went on Hitachi's brand name getting burned big-time
wow, I have three 1 TB WD Caviar Black and tomorrow I will need to buy another. 4 TB of WD. I just wish that this HDs dont fail because I work with media and I have huge storage files... f*ck, wish me luck. The good thing is that I never had a problem with my HDs, I have two for like two years now. :\
Seriously? "Let's take a look at HD reliability in *Russia*" ?
Coming next week. an intimate examination of whether users in Outer Mongolia prefer MS or Logitech mice.
Obviously filling your quota of articles there......