One would think Hitachi would simply have marketing come up with a new brand name.

OUCH!!! This is a 5 platter design .....You guys better know what you're buying lol. I wouldnt buy it.

Zipp1Zone said:keep in mind this drive is a 5-platter design.

Is that like a 5-head VCR?

I have three of these, taken from the external deal @ BB several months ago. (Thought it was a good deal - it actually was - back then @ $200 a piece. OUCH )
The temperature does get up there, but I have all of them placed in Antec MX-1's, so the temperature's not really a problem for me. The drive does have respectable performance, though. If performance is your only measure of HDD's, and you're too cheap to buy the Samsung 3-platters, the Hitachis can be a reasonable choice.
Obviously, if I had to make the choice again, the smart money goes to the Sammy's.

Must be trying to blow out inventory with the 7K1000.B 3 platter version on the way.

This is tempting, but personally I hate MIRs.

Mark

umm no, the original deathstars were not hitachi they were IBM and had glass platers, I still have 3 out of 4 of them in a fileserver running windows 2000 software raid, it has been up for a really long time (almost 10 years), I am going to keep it in production until the last drive dies just cause I can, and hopefully get the worlds record for the longest running dethstar drive.

billmr said:umm no, the original deathstars were not hitachi they were IBM and had glass platers, I still have 3 out of 4 of them in a fileserver running windows 2000 software raid, it has been up for a really long time (almost 10 years), I am going to keep it in production until the last drive dies just cause I can, and hopefully get the worlds record for the longest running dethstar drive.
I think I might hold the record (or be in the contending) for the longest running unpatched 60GXP

Good luck with getting the rebate from ZipZoomfly (ZZF). I bought a Seagate 750Gig drive from ZZF in March and only got my $20 rebate after hours of research and phone time with Seagate and the rebate company. After some snooping I found that ZZF went with a small rebate company to fulfill those rebates. Response to the offer was so small that ZZF just decided NOT to pay the rebate company to send out the rebates. In case you didn't know, in some cases the rebate fulfillment company waits until the promotion is over and then tells the rebate grantor (i.e. ZZF in this case) how much money the promotion costs. At that point the grantor pays the rebate company and rebate checks (or Visa cards in this case) are sent to the consumers.

Well in this case, ZZF just decided NOT to pay the rebate company! The rebate company was screwed for hosting the promotion and I was screwed for not getting my $20. The rebate company executive and I agreed that we were both shafted by ZZF. I contacted some folks at Seagate and let them know what was going on and they "suggested" that ZZF pay the rebates and quick. The very next day the rebate company let me know that the rebate had mysteriously been funded and I got my rebate fulfilled ASAP. Seagate even sent me a free drive for my trouble. Throughout the entire matter, ZZF was unresponsive to emails and calls, even to their executives.

So you should know that ZipZoomfly practices some very shady rebate swindles like this. Do NOT count on any rebates from ZZF. If the execs at Seagate had not pressured ZZF into paying the rebates that ZZF advertised, I and the other rebate submitters would be out our $20.

Well if you're buying multiple drives, I figure it's still a hot deal since it works out to ~$92/drive or some such. I'd rather deal with the Hitachi rebate rather than the Calvary rebate.
Despite the being an older 200GB/platter design, it's still perfectly functional if you're looking to use it for bulk storage and definitely >= the WD Caviar GP.