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Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST94813A 40 GB

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Seagate Comes Out Top... Again!

5 Aug 26th, 2006

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Fast, Quiet and Efficient

Disadvantages:
None

Recommendable: Yes 

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I bought this drive as a temporary solution whilst I saved for a 100GB Seagate Momentus. It cost me a tiny £37.59, but proved to punch well above it's wieght for the money.

Firstly, lets look at the speed of this drive. It easily beats my desktop PCs backup slave drive, a 40GB Hitachi Deskstar. It also thrashed my 80GB Toshiba 2.5" hard disk in my other laptop (!) which cost me £75!

So the drive is up to the performance of even larger dirves, but what about the noise levels? Thankfully, noise is non-existent with the Momentus.

All that is audible is the occasional seek, but nothing much compared to the 80GB Toshiba 2.5" laptop hard disk. You can hear that on idle, and every tiny movement it makes is clearly audible. A real nightmare when you're trying to concentrate on a really important piece of coursework, or trying to enjoy some quiet, relaxing music.

As for efficiency, the Seagate Momentus added another 25 minutes of battery life onto that of my IBM ThinkPad T21, from 3 hours 50, all the way to 4 hours and 5 minutes! The old 20GB Fujitsu disk must have really been guzzling some juice to use 25 minutes of power!

After having the drive for a few days I have decided not to get the 100GB disk as I have become so attached to the Momentus.

It truly is the most perfectly balanced laptop drive on the market today, so if you're in a buying decision, just don't think about it and BUY ONE! I promise you will never look back! 

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Radical-Machine

Radical-Machine

27.08.2006 02:49

Solid Review...!

magicloudz

magicloudz

26.08.2006 13:21

Sounds ideal, great review!

liz1102

liz1102

26.08.2006 10:21

you covered some good points :-) nice review

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