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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. "
It is 2.5 inches thick.. runs at 7200 rpm.. has 5 yr warranty. No, I am not trolling. After I bought it, I searched all web for it, but I couldnt find one. I formatted it to make sure it is 200 gb..and I had to believe what windows finally told me - it is a 200 gb harddrive!! I even got the case for this thing to prove it.
News that isn't exciting is just stuff that happened. I wrote an email today, does that qualify as news?
Yes, you writing that email is news. Perhaps your idea of "news" has been tainted by watching too much FOX, CNN or MSNBC. News doesn't have to involve gratuitous destruction, violence and death.
That said, it's important that the community be kept up-to-date about technological developments such as this. Had I not been made aware of it now, I may not have found out about these drives existing until I next went to purchase a laptop.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
I'm not the biggest fan of Slashdot kernel articles either, but at least they generally discuss new features.
These hard drives do indeed have a new feature: increased capacity over previous drives.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
No, it is a new feature. Much like speed enhancements to the latest Linux or FreeBSD kernels are considered "new features". In the case of hard drives, the "new feature" is a higher capacity.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
"You sleep with your hard drive, don't you?"
No, sir. I sleep with your father.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
I wanna see you filling 120GB of music through a USB 1.1 interface
My Archos is USB 2. Charges through the USB port as well.
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