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Seagate Momentus 120GB 2.5" HD
VL writes "A mobile user can never have enough storage space, so we checkout Seagate's latest solution for notebooks. Seagate's warranty is among the best I've seen at five years, which is much better than the one year or so that comes with laptops (and thus their hard drives) or the three years offered by others. Performance is what this drive is targeted to excel at, an it seems to do so fairly well. In our tests we saw it do markedly better than the Hitachi drive in most tests that focused on performance. Battery life was slightly lower than that of the Hitachi drive but within 2% of that drive. "
Silent PC Review has had a review of this drive up for some time. Some desktop users prefer using notebook drives for generally quieter performance. Naturally, the SPCR review will focus more on the acoustical properties of the drive, but it's at least a different perspective and an interesting read.
Losers choose to abuse the use of "loose".
You should be careful not to overload the laptop's power supply. I recall a co-worker putting (if you can image this) 8 10000 RPM SCSI drives into a single Sun SPARCstation box. Somehow he wired it up, and turned on the machine. All of a sudden the power cable connecting the drives together started melting, and burst into flames. Even though he unplugged the system quickly, the power surge still severely damaged the mother board. Destroyed the SCSI controller completely.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
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