I have bought 6 Hitachi drives (all from OWC) and never had a problem with any of them.
Of course, if you buy a seventh and it crashes immediately, you will be able to be described as having experienced a 14% failure rate!
(I appreciate your confidence in Hitachi drives, but it would be nice to find an apples-to-apples comparison; your six drives versus Virtual1's extensive but non-quantified experience doesn't constitute a very scientific basis for making a buying recommendation.)
