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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. "
Well it looks like I'll be able to buy one of these for my external USB HDD interface. This technology has applications everywhere, although I think hard disk drives are about to go boom and then bust, as evidenced by the 500gb beast we just saw on /., up from a 300gb HDD. +200gb in a few months? We need a Moore's law for HDDs.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
Wow. I know what's going into my trusty old Archos mp3 player real soon now...
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How much heat do these drives produce? I had a laptop with a 60 GB drive, 4200 RPM, and it would heat up like a mutha.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Comparing two 4200rpm drives against the Seagate running at 5400rpm will always make the Seagate a winner.
It'll become a second natural that a drive spinning faster will consume more energy, even if it's just a bit more than this drive.
I'm not saying this Seagate drive is excellent (reading the specs it really makes me drool) but maybe benchmark testers should do tests with some more "au pair" drives.
May the source be with you!
These Slashdot hard drive articles never get old.
I can hardly wait for the upcoming artlcles about Maxtor and Western Digital coming out with 2.5 inch 150GB drives.
I'm on the edge of my seat!
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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".
TV shows and movies - I filled up 3 hdd (80GB + 60GB + 14GB) real quick, even with burning older stuff to DVDs.
Can never get enough space if you like video.
but I really wonder, what do you need 120 GB in your laptop for?
45 gigs of porn movies on my laptop right now
I travel fairly often and have a pretty extensive music collection on record and CD (around 1000 CDs and about half that of records). I personally like to have ALL or as much of this music with me whenever possible. My MP3 player is only a 20 gig Creative Zen, however I would like a larger capacity player, simply because I could then store all or most of my music (should I get round to ripping it all).
When I do travel, it tends to be for months at a time rather than a couple of weeks and so it's not practical carrying 1000 CDs and 500 records.
It's not about listening to 40 days continuous music but having the music to hand.
Currently I know there's always going to be a time when I want to listen to a particular song or band and I don't have it with me. Had my MP3 player had a 120 gig hard drive, then I know I could take all my music with me.
You have obviously haven't heard of bittorrent or other peer to peer file sharing applications.
My UID is prime is yours?
At the moment 120 would probably be more than I need, but I will more than fill up my 60GB player when I've finished ripping my CDs. The 41-83 days thing is a bit of a red herring TBH. I'm not planning on sitting down and listening to my entire collection from beginning to end, but I have it on random most of the time and it's great to have that much variety for it to chose from. Also, when I go on holiday, it's handy not to try to guess up front what music I'm likely to be in the mood for during the trip.
These large sizes are all good and well, but 120GB is a lot of data to lose. In these mobile application areas, how does the reliability stack up? Can it withstand some battering, or does it fail first time you drop your laptop?
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At last I can take my pr0n collection on the road!
Well, half of it, at least...
I avoid all pornographic material. A few years ago, I accidientally encountered whitehouse.com, but other than that I have managed to keep the digital scum off my LCDS, CRTs, and off my HDDs. I think pornography an unacceptable influence on children and adults alike. I'd like to see the U.S. follow China and banish it from inside the United States. Isn't there much more interesting things you coul do with 45 GB and your broadband? I admit I use my HDD and broadband mostly for caching Slashdot content and viewing Slashdot. :) However, I am often working on little programming projects or setting up machines. I think you would find you would become much happier if you did away with the pronography.
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100 hours of porn.? Who really needs more than 10 to 15 minutes?
Besides, I hate the articifial distinctions between servers/desktops/laptops etc. that have nothing to do with their actual capabilities. Particularly Windows users treat computers as limited appliances. With unix, it's easier to see that a computer is a computer is a computer, and you can use almost any machine for any use. In fact laptops make great servers as they come with a built-in UPS.
I think 120 GB HDDs should stay in servers
Yeah, and 120 GB ought to be enough for everyone ;) I mean this as a reminder of the point that you shouldn't impose arbitrary limitations on how technology should be used, because people will always find uses for new inventions.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I disagree with you that the US and UK should be MORE like China - see human rights, pollution, general sanitation and living conditions.
/sarcasum
I disagree with you on the pronography front as well. Any attempt to limit someones freedoms impinges on the rights we all have. What will be next - a book burning? Oh no! Those ideas have to go!
And finally, the on-topic part of my post... I am using ~200gb of storage on my server - most of it applications, tools for work, images and music. Quite a few linux iso archives as well. My friend who does graphics for a living doesn't bother with disks smaller than 200gb in *workstations* these days. His servers are spinning around 1.6TB each (office and home - mirrored).
As disk space becomes availible, you can find usefull ways to fill it.
There are two types of computer users in this world. Ones that see the computer as a movies/music/media station, and those that see it as a word processing/spreadsheet/email/internet station. For the former, a 400GB drive is too small, and for the latter, a 40GB drive is more than they'll ever need. You clearly are in the latter group.
120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music
Obviously, you are not familiar with some of Sven Väth's longer mixes...
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And before you know, your 120GB drive will be full. And it's not cheap either.
To me, capacity and performance are more important that disk dimensions and weight. That's why I'll get myself a Firewire (faster) enclosure with a 3.5" disk (cheaper) three times the capacity.
Here we are at the edge, at 120gb. What happens when they make a 140gb 2.5" HDD? I have had headache after headache with desktop systems and firewire enclosures that were not fully LBA48 compliant, and so they would detect 160, 180, 200, and 250gb HDs as 128gb. (or not at all...) Since no laptop drives > 128gb have yet been manufactured, I wonder if we will see this problem crop up sometime next year for out laptops?
Or has someone tried cabling a large 3.5" drive into a few laptops to see if we have a nasty surprise waiting for us?
I've got an 80 in my powerbook, and have a good 20 of it free, but y'know how things like that go... I'm sure I'll be hurting for space by start of next year. A 120 would be a nice upgrade. Anyone found a source for these new magic drives? I remember years back with my black powerbook with its "huge" 8gb drive, finding that IBM had made a massive 23 gb drive and having to search high and low to find the ONE retailer that had just TWO of them in stock. I still say I should have bought both and ebayed the other and made a killing.
If someone has found a few sources for them, can you report back on prices so we know how bad it's gonna sting? (that 23 was over $800 at the time, but worth every penny!)
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Um, I'm having a space crunch here with ~3TB of disk space across the 4 desktop machines I run daily.
I need much more that 120GB and it needs to be on my desktop.
Its not about music.
I am a software developer who does a lot of travelling, so I use a laptop. I also work on a lot of different projects, and the source code bases can be HUGE.
Recently, I started using VMWare. I can better isolate my development environments for each project from each other by having them exist in different virtual machines - I can also back them up and create 'snapshots' much easier. But it consumes a hell of a lot of disk space. On one project alone I have a windows XP, 2 different flavors of linux, and Solaris 10. I have all of that on an external 100gb drive.
120 gigs? That's nice. I want a laptop with 250 gigs. I know I'm not the norm at this point, but I don't think I'm more than a couple of years ahead of the curve.
Ha! 120GB is nowhere near enough for por... I mean photos..
This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?
I dunno, I'm looking at winamp right now just to check how many days worth of music I have. About 35 right now (842 hours.) It's all full albums and stuff I want to listen to. I usually go on Direct Connect, find someone with a fast connection on my favorite hub, see if they have the same musical interest (hardcore, grindcore, heavy metal, punk) and download all their full albums. It's not fun organizing, renaming and re-tagging 13,101 files but it's nice having a massive collection of music for road trips (Alpine 6 CD MP3 compatible changer with the head unit, so that's 7 full MP3 CDs I can have.) It's all organized very nicely and most of my friends can just come over and name a song and chances are I have it.
I have 780GB total on my computer and if I was into maintstream music I'd have a much much larger MP3 collection (and much more hard drive space.) When stories like this one come out people ask "WHY! Why all this space!" Well when someone comes to a lan party and they've got a TB of hard drive space, and half of that is games, movies, porn, music, whatever you want, those people forget their question completely. I'd hate to have to keep changing CDs (or DVDs) to copy files to other people, which is why I just love having all the space I have. I'd deffinitely buy the 120 GB hard drive for my laptop (I only have a 40 right now and I have about 6 gigs free, most of the large files are from photos or apps and I've had to delete a lot of stuff or move it.)
"This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?"
I think most would agree that once you start getting that many songs, having to weed out a bunch to make room for new music sucks. For music, 120 gigs is practicaly infinite. Although, I think it'd be pretty hard core for somebody to find 40 gigs (just for music, most of these HD based mp3 players are neat little external drives, too...) to not be enough for music, but 120 gigs would be. Heh.
The thing is, though, there are some neat little doohickeys out right now that would benefit from having that much giggage. Archos, today, has a handheld device out that plays MPEG 4 files. It even has a little cradle so it'll act as a PVR. Unfortunately, that's upwards of $800 for the 80 gig model. When that comes down, boooooy will I be tempted. You can even hook it up to a TV. Neat stuff. Then again, I'm seriously hoping an iTunes for series of TV shows is somewhere on the horizon.
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use an external firewire drive for the extra storage, its not like you are going to need all 250GB at all times.
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