Where Can I Buy a Hitachi Hard Drive?

[Gaz{M}]

Agreed, that on/off cycling does wear a drive more than being left on continuously. But what about the wear caused by constant seek/read/write operations, versus a PC hard drive that does nothing most of the time it is on?

In a year, their hard drives are powered on for 24x7x365 hours = 61320 Hours
In a typical home PC, let's say it's 5x7x300 hours = 10 500 Hours. If you don't use your PC everyday, on ave 5 hours a day.

That's 1/6 of the on time of the server drives.

 

[D4N]

 

[D4N]

When people ask me what HDD they should buy, my response is which ever is cheaper and whichever has the best warranty. You can buy a HDD in good faith based on any number of studies and reports and surveys, but at the end of the day you might just get a dud, or you might drop it, or might just fail, or it might go on perfectly for 10 years. You just don't know, so get what suits you at the time and backup.

This. I just laugh when the neckbeards come out of the woodwork to defend a manufacturer's reliability