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EXPIRED - Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM £49.95@Ebuyer (add this pointless peice of plastic for free delivery 139717)


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FOUND BY: GAVINLEWISHUKD 6 months, 2 weeks ago

AS EBUYER ARE MESSING ABOUT AND STOPPED FREE DELIVERY ON THIS ADD ITEM 139717 TO GET FREE DELIVERY To MAKE THE PRICE £50.10. (then chuck in the bin)

This is a bad show ebuyer so if your watching sort it out. Not very environmentally friendly for the sake of 4p is it!

Well it's dropped in price again!!!

The Deskstar 7K1000.B hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and performance making it an ideal solution for power-friendly consumer and commercial PCs. Leveraging seventh-generation power management technology as well as power-saving innovations pioneered on the popular 2.5-inch line of notebook hard drives from Hitachi, this new breed of desktop drive delivers best-in-class power management and thermal emissions, while maintaining high standards of performance.

* Perpendicular magnetic recording technology
* SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface
* Ramp load design increases shock protection and power savings
* Thermal monitoring and fly height control enhance reliability
* Three low-power idle modes boost power efficiency
* Silent seek acoustics achieve ultra-quiet operation
* Host/drive authentication for hardware security
* 3 year warranty honored by ebuyer

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25-08-2009, 07:16
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can i be first with DEATHSTAR comment ?
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Might have been good for a Netgear ReadyNAS but this drive does not appear to be supported.
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mattmerch:
can i be first with DEATHSTAR comment ?
No you can't

Hate to mention it, but... DEATHSTAR...
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what's deathstar?!?
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It was a name given to an old IBM Deskstar hard drive due to its alarmingly high failure rate.

I have one of these Hitachi's and it it's pretty good.
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so these types were pants? I'm interested in reliability here!
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Good HDD but very noisy compared to Western Digital or Samsung.
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Darthchaffinch:
what's deathstar?!?
The Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon appearing in the Star Wars movies and expanded universe.
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Darthchaffinch:
so these types were pants? I'm interested in reliability here!
About 7 years ago IBM had a bad batch of HDD's

since then they have been fine however the name 'deathstar' has been remembered. The drive will be fine.

obviously there is a chance of a drive failure as with any hdd you buy.
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so these types were pants? I'm interested in reliability here!
The Deskstar drives are fine now, it was just back in the day they had a high failure rate. However, as you can see, the bad memories stick.
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great price - you'll be getting these free in yer cornflakes soon
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OP should mention that this is £54.74 delivered unless you add something like a cable or a mouse mat to take you over the £50 free delivery threshold.

You can add this £0.35 mousemat bringing the total to £50.30

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/32496

but then you might as well buy something you actually want
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Personally I have had nothing but bad experiences with Hitachi Drives, I never had any problems with the old IBM ones but every Hitachi Drive I have had over the last 5 years has failed that includes 3 2.5" laptop drives that came in the laptops, presumably because they were the cheapest supplier and 2 desktop drives. In that time I have had several Maxtor, Segate and WD drives and not a single one of those has failed. So to my mind Hitachi are the low end of the hard drive market. Having said that it seems Seagate have had their fair share of problems recently with their 1.5TB drives so I wouldn't trust those either at the moment.

Everybody has their own horror story about drives failing as e very brand will have some failures but the only one I trust at the moment is WD.
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jamesdew:
you might as well buy something you actually want
like another one of these for 2.0Tb goodness .......
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