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Hitachi have always been a little more expensive than the others, from my memory. The Deskstar consumer line could be around 10-20% more than competition and the Ultrastar enterprise 25-50% more than Deskstar. Going from memory.

I've had good luck with the few Toshiba drives I've had. That's what my storage system is running right now because it was the only thing I could find in 1TB laptop form factor when I bought them 6-7 years ago.