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. "

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Re:How the hell much music can people use?

[JanneM]

Downloading whole discographys from bittorrent and audiobooks I believe that you could do it.

Whole discographies? I'm as guilty of fanboyism as the next guy, but seriously, I have a hard time thinking of any band or artist (whose discography is longer than a couple of hit singles) where you actually would want to _listen_ - as opposed to, well, just have - more than half of their output.

And since files are so transient, there isn't the same point of having as you did with CDs or records. If, at some point, you feel you just have to hear "A Saucerful Of Secrets" again, if nothing else just to make sure it's as bad as you remember, then you can dig out that burnt CD in the back of your closet or download it.

I'm with the original poster - I don't think there is a month+ of music out there that I want to hear.

Audiobooks are a bit different of course, but there too, there's a limit to how many books I not only like, but that I like enough (and that fits the media well enough) to keep focus over ten hours or so of someone reading it to me. And it's of course pretty pointless to rip audiobooks at th esame high quality you do for music; at 32Kbits mp3 (or half that for Ogg) it is still perfectly fine, and still enjoyable at half that.