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2.5" Drives On the Desktop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-big-sucks dept.

An anonymous reader points out an article on XYZ Computing exploring the use of a 2.5" notebook hard drive in a desktop computer. From the article: "The tradeoff for these qualities has always been limited capacities, high costs, and slow transfer rates, but a the recent progression in portable storage techology has changed the 2.5" drive greatly. We put the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB SATA notebook drive in our test system and took it for a spin."

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  1. Re:Nice but... by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good idea ?

    Sortof...

    Article summary :
    You can put a laptop drive in a desktop machine. Even though it's slower, everything will still work.

    Well, Duh.

    Well everything also works on my laptop, thanks for the amazing insight on the intricacies of hardware. Basically, disks work. Even the slow ones. I'm glad to know that.

    Excuse me while I'm going to put an array of compact flash microdrives in my fileservers.

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  2. Re:Luggable by i.r.id10t · · Score: 4, Funny

    They still exist and make them - even name brand companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, and Alienware.

    Ever seen what some folks will brign to a LAN party?

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  3. Are you a married man by any chance? by jpellino · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's the deal, me hearty: He's going to get his "Yes" to saving the $8 a month, after which he'll be treated to the live version of the opening animation from the Jetsons...

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