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Seagate Momentus 120GB 2.5" HD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-tell-you-where-to-stick-it dept.

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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  1. Biased review by LynXmaN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Wewt by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a law for hardrives, the Murphy's law :)

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  3. Re:120 GB... by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My laptop is my music workstation. That's currently the main reason why I like space on a laptop drive. People have different uses for computers, so be wary of generalizing your usage patterns on others.

    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.

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