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Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed

PReDiToR writes "At Tom's Hardware I found this favourable review of some remarkable Hard Drives. The article points out that with 40GB units suitable for server or desktop use, life with 2.5" drives could be just around the corner. Heat noise and power consumption are all apparently within acceptable tolerances."

18 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's raining in Athabasca, and I've got nothing to say (but FP)

    http://geek.is-a-geek.com/

    P.S. power's back on

  2. Can you dig it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Suckaaaaaaa!!!

  3. Yeah, but...Librarians rock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Librarians are the most ass-kickingly cool people in the world.

    1. Re:Yeah, but...Librarians rock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      You know those female librarian-types? Glasses, skirt, hair tied in a severe bun, no breasts to speak of but a nice round ass and sharp nose. And they're so organized, smart and commanding...

      They never fail to give me a raging hard-on. Sometimes I visit my local library just because of the very fine female librarian specimen there. If she weren't married, I'd probably ask her out.

  4. Is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or is microsoft.com completely unreachable now?

    1. Re:Is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Nope. Unfortunately, the Borg are still operational.

      Come on, people! Now is the one time to install billyboys malware and strike a blow for the Open Source!

  5. Offtopic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you even RTFA before modding? Hint, look at the picture.

  6. Re:X-Box 2 anyone? by ravenlock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ditch the complaining >:P the box looks neat to me, plus the added weight keeps it from falling to the floor when my kitten decides it's time to toy around with the controller wires :D ... although a miniature version in the spirit of PSOne would be nice.

  7. Gnome 2.4 Changelog (Zcore: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Gnome 2.4, the desktop environment you have waited for, sucks more than 2.2 did. We advice you to install kde 3.1.4 from CVS until gnome 2.5 comes out. The following features will NOT be present, despite your constant whining
    • The new file dialog
    • The Galeon web browser. We chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead, because who wants tabbed browsing except you jerks. Look at mozilla, and you will see why we choose this lovley netscape 2 clone.
    • We will make file extration harder, because we don't want to waste space on the context menu. We have removed "Extract here" and you will now have to go though 5 menus to avoid going into the console and typing tar xjvzfcaq file.tar.gz.
    • We have made panel configuaration harder. Instead of an intuitve size dropdown with small large ect we have repaced it with a harder to use spinbox. This is beaucse the sizes upset stallman because we didn't have his trouser size in it so we replaced it. Have fun taking 20 clicks instead of 2. PS we removed the cute goat logo in the about box, now you have to look at the foot!
    • We will STILL not be including a media player, sure you can reboot into windows or play with mplayer from the command line. Why because our media libray [gstreamer.net] sucks and we don't want to use a superior [xine.org] implemnetation.
    We have included some features, but they only did it because you were willing to suck havoc penningtons cock!
    • We added fake cmyk support in the gimp. Sure it LOOKs like it, but when you try to prepress or print it will look like monkey shit
    • We added a better weather applet, but it won't work on rainy days
    • Wanda the fish actually looks like a fish now
    • We added a menu editor, but when you use it you have to reboot for the changes to take effect
    • We made the gnome-terminal compatible with emacs, but you will need a czech keyboard to be compatible with the obscure keybindings.
    • As usual, we took more options away from the prefrences dialog and hid them in gconf where they belong
    Please send all complaints, complements and gay porn to havocpennington@gnome.org
  8. Re:USB Key's by SubjunctiveSam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I tried searching for your sig on google, but it returned no matches. It's a cool quote, mind telling me when the National Security Agency said that?

  9. GNOME is gay (S core:5, funny) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Gnome 2.4, the desktop environment you have waited for, sucks more than 2.2 did. We advice you to install kde 3.1.4 from CVS until gnome 2.5 comes out. The following features will NOT be present, despite your constant whining
    • The new file dialog
    • The Galeon web browser. We chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead, because who wants tabbed browsing except you jerks. Look at mozilla, and you will see why we choose this lovley netscape 2 clone.
    • We will make file extration harder, because we don't want to waste space on the context menu. We have removed "Extract here" and you will now have to go though 5 menus to avoid going into the console and typing tar xjvzfcaq file.tar.gz.
    • We have made panel configuaration harder. Instead of an intuitve size dropdown with small large ect we have repaced it with a harder to use spinbox. This is beaucse the sizes upset stallman because we didn't have his trouser size in it so we replaced it. Have fun taking 20 clicks instead of 2. PS we removed the cute goat logo in the about box, now you have to look at the foot!
    • We will STILL not be including a media player, sure you can reboot into windows or play with mplayer from the command line. Why because our media libray [gstreamer.net] sucks and we don't want to use a superior [xine.org] implemnetation.
    We have included some features, but they only did it because you were willing to suck havoc penningtons cock!
    • We added fake cmyk support in the gimp. Sure it LOOKs like it, but when you try to prepress or print it will look like monkey shit
    • We added a better weather applet, but it won't work on rainy days
    • Wanda the fish actually looks like a fish now
    • We added a menu editor, but when you use it you have to reboot for the changes to take effect
    • We made the gnome-terminal compatible with emacs, but you will need a czech keyboard to be compatible with the obscure keybindings.
    • As usual, we took more options away from the prefrences dialog and hid them in gconf where they belong
    Please send all complaints, complements and gay porn to havocpennington@gnome.org
  10. DO NOT MOD DOWN OR I WILL POST THE GOATSE GUY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Gnome 2.4, the desktop environment you have waited for, sucks more than 2.2 did. We advice you to install kde 3.1.4 from CVS until gnome 2.5 comes out. The following features will NOT be present, despite your constant whining
    • The new file dialog
    • The Galeon web browser. We chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead, because who wants tabbed browsing except you jerks. Look at mozilla, and you will see why we choose this lovley netscape 2 clone.
    • We will make file extration harder, because we don't want to waste space on the context menu. We have removed "Extract here" and you will now have to go though 5 menus to avoid going into the console and typing tar xjvzfcaq file.tar.gz.
    • We have made panel configuaration harder. Instead of an intuitve size dropdown with small large ect we have repaced it with a harder to use spinbox. This is beaucse the sizes upset stallman because we didn't have his trouser size in it so we replaced it. Have fun taking 20 clicks instead of 2. PS we removed the cute goat logo in the about box, now you have to look at the foot!
    • We will STILL not be including a media player, sure you can reboot into windows or play with mplayer from the command line. Why because our media libray [gstreamer.net] sucks and we don't want to use a superior [xine.org] implemnetation.
    We have included some features, but they only did it because you were willing to suck havoc penningtons cock!
    • We added fake cmyk support in the gimp. Sure it LOOKs like it, but when you try to prepress or print it will look like monkey shit
    • We added a better weather applet, but it won't work on rainy days
    • Wanda the fish actually looks like a fish now
    • We added a menu editor, but when you use it you have to reboot for the changes to take effect
    • We made the gnome-terminal compatible with emacs, but you will need a czech keyboard to be compatible with the obscure keybindings.
    • As usual, we took more options away from the prefrences dialog and hid them in gconf where they belong
    Please send all complaints, complements and gay porn to havocpennington@gnome.org
  11. Re:X-Box 2 anyone? by Mikey-San · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's a series of questions for you:

    1. Are you picking it up every five minutes for some reason?

    2. Does it not fit into a backpack or duffel bag?

    3. Is it too heavy to sit on your floor or entertainment shelf?

    Most likely, the answers to these were "no", "no", and "no".

    Why are we complaining about a console that, for 99% of the time, just sits there anyway? (And when you DO take it to a friend's house, it's not a bitch to carry in a backpack. I know--I do it.)

    Bitch about the controllers all you like, but it's much smaller than a PC you might take to a LAN party.

    --
    Mikey-San
    Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
  12. MODERATORS ON CRACK AGAIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Gnome 2.4, the desktop environment you have waited for, sucks more than 2.2 did. We advice you to install kde 3.1.4 from CVS until gnome 2.5 comes out. The following features will NOT be present, despite your constant whining
    • The new file dialog
    • The Galeon web browser. We chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead, because who wants tabbed browsing except you jerks. Look at mozilla, and you will see why we choose this lovley netscape 2 clone.
    • We will make file extration harder, because we don't want to waste space on the context menu. We have removed "Extract here" and you will now have to go though 5 menus to avoid going into the console and typing tar xjvzfcaq file.tar.gz.
    • We have made panel configuaration harder. Instead of an intuitve size dropdown with small large ect we have repaced it with a harder to use spinbox. This is beaucse the sizes upset stallman because we didn't have his trouser size in it so we replaced it. Have fun taking 20 clicks instead of 2. PS we removed the cute goat logo in the about box, now you have to look at the foot!
    • We will STILL not be including a media player, sure you can reboot into windows or play with mplayer from the command line. Why because our media libray [gstreamer.net] sucks and we don't want to use a superior [xine.org] implemnetation.
    We have included some features, but they only did it because you were willing to suck havoc penningtons cock!
    • We added fake cmyk support in the gimp. Sure it LOOKs like it, but when you try to prepress or print it will look like monkey shit
    • We added a better weather applet, but it won't work on rainy days
    • Wanda the fish actually looks like a fish now
    • We added a menu editor, but when you use it you have to reboot for the changes to take effect
    • We made the gnome-terminal compatible with emacs, but you will need a czech keyboard to be compatible with the obscure keybindings.
    • As usual, we took more options away from the prefrences dialog and hid them in gconf where they belong
    Please send all complaints, complements and gay porn to havocpennington@gnome.org
  13. Re:X-Box 2 anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lololoLOloll omg omg rofl lol

    XBOX si HUEG AM I RITE

    MANBABIES

    (5)*

    *bigpeeler**

    **i wish I had your life***

    ***what****

    ****oic

  14. WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOW!

  15. Re:X-Box 2 anyone? by Channard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are JeffK and I claim my five pounds.

  16. Re:USB Key's by fr0z · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To be honest I have no idea...got it off a trash-talking session on IRC...so I'm not sure if it is quoted correctly or not.

    But it sounds cool...

    --
    Never underestimate the predictability of human stupidity...