There is no real reason I use Hitachi HDDs .... just have a feeling about these HDDs being good. I now have 8 Hitachi HDDs with not a single hiccup from any of them. My oldest Hitachi is a 80GB which I bought 3 years back.x86 said:
The Hitachi T7K500 320GB HDDs features are more or less identical to the Seagate 7200.10 320GB HDDs.... they are both 2 platter HDDs .... except for the perpendicular recording feature of Seagate. In the Storagereview forums the Gurus there mention that the Hitachi HDDs "firmware" is much better than the Seagates and they mention this as a major plus point in the HItachi HDDs favour. I dont know what this firmware betterness means and how it influences the working of the HDD. Maybe someone here can throw some light on this.
About your question of how well the HDDs will work when nearly full I would suggest you check the charts in the HDTach thread and observe the speeds near the ending. I have put up a screenie for the HDTach on the HItachi and I thing Apo and Chaos and others have put for the Seagates.
