Best Reviews, Buy Hitachi 0S02861
How To Save Up To 70% OFF Hitachi 0S02861 On Daily Sales
Hitachi 0S02861 Best Buy
Ratings
Category: Personal Computers
Brand: Hitachi
Model: 0S02861
Availability: In Stock. Ships next business day.
List Price :
Special Prices: Check Price Here!
Hitachi 0S02861 Product reviews
Hitachi 0S02861 Review by PB (Escondido, California, US)
Picked up this drive last week via Amazon/J&R. Cheapest price I have seen so far on this drive- was watching price for weeks all over the web -coming down. Paid $179.00 including ship & no tax. Drive would be going into replace 1 of 4 Hitachi 2TB 7200 rpm in a 2008 3.0Mhz 8 core MacPro.
Initially plugged drive into the external E-Sata port of a Highpoint E-Sata for Mac PCI 4 lane card with the bare drive sitting on my desk. Drive initialized fine by disk utility & formatted as GUID w/3 partitions. One a start-up partition- cloned to w/CCC & 2 separate data- disks- one used as scratch disk. Old Hitachi 2TB was running out of space- hard to believe right, given that there are 4 of them in the MacPro.
Anyway had the drive on my desk for several hours copying data to it/ cloning etc. Never really became excessively warm at all. I do routinely have bare drives on my desk similarly so I get to listen & feel how warm & loud drives actually are. This drive in my estimation is the quietest drive I have ever seen (except a SSD LOL). Even copying continuous to it -I had to put my ear to it really to hear anything.
Did not notice any real speed difference at this point since the highpoint e-sata bus is probably about 20% slower than the on board motherboard Sata bus. What I did notice was after copying & cloning all the partitions I had DiskWarrior rebuild the directories on the 3 partitions. Since I routinely rebuild similar partitions on the internal drives I have a good handle how long it would usually take on the Hitachi 2TB 7200 rpm current drives. Never saw directories rebuilt quite that fast. Not smoking, but noticeably faster. Maybe the 64 MB cache has something to do with it - don't know.
Mounted in bay 2 -works fine, BOOTS fine. Temp about 3 degrees cooler than the 2TB Hitachi's. Seems similar to existing drives. I bought drive primarily to add that extra 1TB to the previous 8TB sum of drives because I really needed that additional space in that mix of drives/partitions.
Ran some preliminary benchmarks w/Quickbench compared Hitachi 2Tb 7200 rpm 32MB cache 3 GPS w/the new Hitachi 3Tb 7200 rpm 64 MB cache 6GPS- both on the internal bus of MacPro- both partitioned w/3 approximate same percentage of individual drive sized partitions. The first & second partitions on the 3 TB drive has read & write avg transfer rates about 15 - 18% faster than the 2 TB, all things considered equal. The third partition on both drives have a nearly equal read & write avg speed. Overall it is a faster drive looking at it in this way.
Price per gig at what I paid for the 3TB is around .060 , price per gig on a 2 TB Hitachi around $100.00 plus tax is around .0545 per gig. Pretty close- I am happy. I can see replacing the other 2 TB Hitachi's left in the MacPro eventually with the 3 TB version as the price drops.
Pro's:
* Price comparable to 2 TB 7200 rpm (per GB price)
* Cool running & very quiet
* Larger -50% increase capacity over 2 TB drive & 64 MB cache
* 7200 rpm & SATA III
* No hassle, issues with next generation drive on the Mac
* IS BOOTABLE on Mac (contrary to amazon description-saw that description somewhere else,not true on MacPro, have not tried
raiding yet. Can't speak for windows though-don't know)
Con's :
* None other than for those using Windows-issues w/drive size being recognized/used.
* Current & older external cases probably do not recognize 3 TB size- only seem to be able to address 2 TB- so I've read.
* MacPro's currently only SATA II (there are PCI Express 2.0 E-Sata 6 gbs cards out there. Had an NewerTech - sent it
back-way slow-nothing but trouble with it. I would be surprised if they are really any faster with this drive. I think one
would need a high end PCI Express 2.0 E-Sata card with Intel processor on card to see any speed gains with the SATA III
drives. But that's just my opinion- not one based on any real testing.
Bare Feats did this drive against other 2TB drives on the MacPro internal current bus 3 gbs.
It would be interesting to see if any high end PCI Express 2.0 E-SATA cards w/ 6gbs interface could harness the faster 6gbs interface on the new 6 gbs drives. Or if it's just numbers game with not much difference in spinning drives performance unless you raid them. Which you already could do with existing drives anyway.
Bottom Line,
Primarily bought drive for significant increase in storage capacity as well as still a 7200 rpm speed & form factor & comparable price per GB. Next generation interface & 64 MB cache are plus's. "It ain't no SSD " - but hey look at the size & price. Works for me.
Hitachi 0S02861 Review by HMMWV "God, Country, Corps" (santa clara, CA USA)
Years ago I started using IBM's line of hard disks to cut failure rates. I have IBM drives with 1/2 million spinning hours logged and no failures in a recent low level reformat to build a 20TB NAS RAID. Hitachi for a while was producing the IBM drives and finally bought out that division of IBM, but kept the quality in the product.
In the same load of that raid-5 system Synology 5-Bay Plug-n-Use Expansion Unit to DS1010+ and DS710+ Network Attached Storage DX510 (Black) the old IBM drives were loaded side by side with two new WD 2.0 GB drives and the entire 5 drive system was given a low level format. In the logfile, the two WD drives had multiple (>100) read errors and a few (>30) bad sectors while the ancient IBM discs had zero failures. In the main box I had bought some of these Hitachi units and found they also did a low level format with zero errors.
While I don't want to speculate on why IBM left the diskdrive business, their legacy of reliability, speed, and capacity has proven their overall value in preserving data for years without problems. Today I insist on using hitachi's IBM legacy mechanism in new computers or raid storage arrays because out of 40+ IBM style drives in use both in on/off environments and constant spinning environments, none have failed.
There are free tools on the internet that will let you read your drive's "log" of errors - I highly recommend not only the hitachi disk systems but this software for reading the s.m.a.r.t. memory in the drives you have to predict future reliability or failures. While all mechanical devices eventually die, keeping track of subtle failure hints is important.
Hitachi 0S02861 Review by M. Mueller (San Diego, CA)
I have three of these installed in my Synology DS1511+ NAS and I couldn't be happier. The temperatures all run 38-41 degrees C under small loads, and are fairly quiet. Quiet enough that I have the box in my room running while I sleep. I am able to maintain a very fast transfer rate to them in Raid 5 (about 80-90MBps for larger files). I can't say enough great things about these drives. And if their service is anything like when I had to warranty swap out one of my 2TB Deskstar drives, if the time comes to replace one of these I'll have no fear.
More Reviews...
Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0S02861:: Description
The Deskstar 7K2000 hard drive delivers a colossal two terabytes of storage capacity and 7200 RPM performance in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. Now in its fourth-generation, the 7K2000 is based on a robust mechanical design that continues to set the industry standard for quality and reliability. Through a patented ramp load/unload design, data heads are moved to a ramp away from the disk where they rest during periods of inactivity. This greatly minimizes the risk of shock damage by eliminating direct contact between the heads and disks, reducing wear and heat while improving overall drive reliability and power efficiency. Highlights, 2TB capacity, 7200 RPM performance, Up to 10% idle power savings over previous generation product, Halogen-free design for footprint, Built on award-winning proven design.
Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0S02861:: Technical Details
- HITACHI 0S02861 2.0TB DESKSTAR 7200RPM
- Item Dimensions: 15 x 7 x 20 inches; 2 pounds
- Brand: Hitachi
- Model: 0S02861
- Product Type: Personal Computers
Hitachi 0S02861:Buy today for save more!
Tags : Buy Hitachi 0S02861, Best Buy Hitachi 0S02861 Lowest Price, Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0S02861 on Sale, Hitachi 0S02861 Review, Great Deals Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0S02861, Cheap Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0S02861.
See also:
Monster MP HTS3600 MKII Great Offer!
HP WT431AA#ABA Customer reviews
Logitech 939-000008 Product reviews
Hitachi 0S03228
Optoma PK201 Best deals!
Canon 0011B001 Review
Cisco E3200 Best deals!
Sony VPL-BW7 Review
Western Digital WDML5000TN Great Offer!
Toshiba PSLP0U-008003 Reviews
