Seagate Momentus 160Gb 2.5inch hard drive

Advantages: Huge capacity, reasonably fast, 5 year warranty
Disadvantages: Not the fastest

...battery life - if you're spinning it faster, the battery life will suffer, badly. After a quick search I came across the Seagate. The capacity is huge compared to most laptop drives at 160Gb. This is as a result of a fairly new technology called perpendicular recording which allows the drive to write data vertically in the disk magnetic layer as opposed to across it. This gives the possibility for much more storage space than traditional non perpendicular drives. The price was also ridiculously cheap (that or I've not being paying attention to 2.5inch drive prices recently). If I'm honest, I was also unaware that perpendicular recording had made it to laptops so there was an element of the 'new and cool technology' in the buying equation. The drive spins at 5600RPM which ought to make it quicker but it should also be quicker still because...

ilaskey 26.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.3 ST9160821A 160 GB

Seagate Momentus, Good allaround.

Advantages: Speedy, High Capacity, Quite, good customer support
Disadvantages: Requires a bit more power than other laptop drives.

...If you are looking for a good hard disk for your laptop you are looking at the right line of Hard disk from Seagate, the Seagate Momentus is one of the best laptop hard disks out there, I have been using one for some time now and have had it never go wrong, the only down side to the disk the power consumption of it is around 1 amp (5 watts) usually and for most low end disks it is usually around 0.5 amps (2.5 watts), but this is down to the speed of which the disk spins at, a staggering 7200 RPM, for a laptop hard disk this is fast, as most hard disk for laptops only work at ether 4200 RPM or 5400 RPM. Since this hard disk has such a fast spindle, it means that it can read and write like 'Billy Stink' (old expression!) The price for this disk isn't too bad considering that you are getting a high speed, high capacity disk that is nearly...

lowerboscadjack 23.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST910021A 100 GB

Seagate ST9320325AS

Advantages: Small, quiet, reliable
Disadvantages: Can't think of any really

...I bought this particular harddrive recently to be used as backup for all my photos and music and other miscellaneous documents that I have managed to collect over the years. Basically, mainly all external hard drives on the market today are just ordinary hard drives in an external caddy which provides power and allows you to connect it to your computer to read data. It's extremely easy to buy your own hard drive and caddy, connect them together yourself and away you go with your own customised external HDD. A 2.5" hard drive is the size used for laptops so consequently it is smaller and more compact than a regular 3.5" drive for desktops. The Seagate ST9320325AS is a SATA-300 drive which basically means it's quite fast although the regular consumer doesn't really notice the difference all that much between that and older style...

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Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9320325AS 320 GB

Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST910021A 100 GB Review

Advantages: Small, fast, large cache
Disadvantages: Expensive

...times. So overall it performs well. Seagate are a trusted manufacturer and have been around for a while. As far as I'm aware they have never made a bad device line, but then my HDD's of preference are normally Western digital. The device uses an 8mb cache, this isn't a special as it used to be since many other 2.5"HDDs now use this amount but its still a plus point for the device. It runs a 7200RPM, this is about the same as many normal 3.5" HDDs but is quite fast for a laptop variant. As I said before it is important to look at your need for this type of device, there are many other devices available that do the same job but for a far lower price. You should only buy 2.5" HDD's if you really need one and if you can't use anything else. I bought this one new from Ebuyer for just over £100 inc VAT and delivery. Its now happily...

Jon_Farrimond 25.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST910021A 100 GB

Seagate Comes Out Top... Again!

Advantages: Fast, Quiet and Efficient
Disadvantages: None

...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...

mattyprice4004 26.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST94813A 40 GB

Another great Seagate Drive

Advantages: Price
Disadvantages: Noise

...Seagate have always made great hard drives and this is no excepetion it reads and writes fast. This drive is one in a new range of seagate drives that use perpendicular recording technology, meaning more space per platter. There is only one bad point to this drive and that is the noise you can here it read this may not be a problem for some but compared to the samsung hard drive I also have in my pc, the seagate makes the most noise (you cant hear the samsung). Good points for this drive include the price its pritty cheap for the price and amount of storage you get, being a seagate you get a nice long 5 year guarantee. Technical specs - Capacity: 250 GB - Speed: 7200 rpm - Interface: SATA-II - Cache: 16MB - 5 year manufacturer''s warranty To conclude this is an excellent hard drive as expected from such a great...

pdthegreat 22.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB

Seagate External Hard Drive 120GB

Advantages: Great invention, reasonable price, large capacity
Disadvantages: Bulky, noisy

...I store a lot of photos, music and documents on my laptop and was finding I was needing to delete documents or put things on cds to enable me to save more data on my laptop. This was getting to be a pain, so I took a trip to PC World to see what options there were. I spoke to an advisor and on special offer was this Seagate External Hard drive, instead of the RRP of £120 I got this hard drive for £70. I thought it would be really useful and this has proved true. The hard drive also came with a 1 year guarenteed warranty. The hard drive is grey and black and looks quite bulky, especially when plugged into a laptop. It has a USB cable which connects into the USB port in your computer or laptop and a cable which is plugged into the mains. When the hard drive is on, a small green light is displayed on the top. The hard drive is...

lilyellowfish 26.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Hard drive 120 GB

Seagate in general.

Advantages: The company.
Disadvantages: Not as fast as other drives?

...Seagate.Why buy a Seagate Hard drive?Hard drives are very boring things. What makes a Seagate hd better than anyone else`s?Nothing realy,whatever the blurb says. I bought a 15.3gig Seagate from SMC(sadly missed) about 4 months ago.After two months use it started to give bad sectors,only a couple,but this could be the start of something bad.I fdisk`d the partition,removing and reinstating, and then formatted it. Formatting alone does`nt remove bad files only the FAT record,hence the fdisk`ing. All was fine for 18 hrs,but then the little devils came back!OK,lets `phone the supplier SMC. 'Hello upgrade options'Who?Who are upgrade options I ask myself? It seems that SMC had gone bankrupt and these people had bought certain parts of it.Upgrade options said,quite reasonably that they were`nt responsible for goods they had`nt sold...

staron 22.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Seagate ST315320A

Use a Seagate for your harddrive

Advantages: cheap, easy to install, quiet
Disadvantages: no bundled software

...I bought the ST340810A ? Seagates ATA-100 40Gb IDE 5400rpm hard drive when I was wanting to upgrade from a 20Gb Maxtor harddrive, and wanted a cheap and affordable hard drive. I paid ATS 1645 (around £75) for the drive, after having found this to be the lowest price for the drive on the consumer site geizhals.at (I get a lot of my hardware and software from places found here) from Goldadler ? one of Austria?s cheapest computer retailers. Obviously this isn?t going to be the fastest kid on the block, being only a 5400 rpm drive (there are of course a lot of drives at 7200RPM) although funnily enough, this drive had a better average seek time that the 7200RPM model Seagate were offering with the same capacity (8.9ms average compared with 9ms average). It uses the Ultra ATA/100 interface, although there are patches available if your...

Morgenhund 19.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Seagate U6 Hard drive 40 GB

Seagate 160 GB HDD, ATA 100

Advantages: Only sleekness. Nothin other than this in my opinion
Disadvantages: Everything. Performance, reliability, speed, sound etc.

.... Comparison Im using Hitachi 160 GB now and it really rocks. Reliability is very good and very silent in its operation. Also Hitachi performance is better with its 8MB cache. It took 1.57 minutes to copy a 6.8 GB Hi-Def movie file in Hitachi but this took 2.41 minutes. Not recommended to buy this, its better to buy Seagate HDD of capacity 250 GB and above. Advantage In my opinion the only advantage that i can mention is the Manufacturer's support. He never let me down even for a single time when i went to him for servicing this HDD when it got repaired. :-) This is truly my opinion and mean no harm to anyone. P.S = Thanx for your ratings in advance. Regards Nishanth Lakshminarayanan....

nishanthl21111987 02.11.2008 · Read review
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