In the back of my mind I

In the back of my mind I still harbor a little prejudice against Hitachi drives because of the IBM DeathStar thing and then later an apparent noise issue that some models were known for. 

However, a couple of months ago I was in need of a replacement HDD for my mom’s desktop PC.  In the end I decided to push my prejudices aside and get a 500GB Hitachi after having read the various customer reviews and whatever other information that I could find.  It was the apparent “best bang for the buck”.  After I installed it and got the PC back up and running I noted no unusual noises or vibrations even though I just knew for sure that the Hitachi would make its presence known somehow.  It simply does what it is supposed to.

This experience in no way make me a Hitachi fan boy but I now have another HDD manufacturer to consider when trying to make a HDD purchase decision and that’s always a good thing as in the past I never gave Hitachi drives any consideration.