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Abstract: Remember when 500GB was the most you could get from a notebook drive? It seems like most vendors have made the transition to 640GB. Western Digital even has its own 750GB model that fits within the 9.5 mm z-height. So, which of these drives is the best...
Abstract: Click on the picture to see a closer image of each hard disk. The Seagate momentus disk is marked with the number 6. While you can usually expand your desktop PCs storage space by adding a second hard disk, notebooks offer two big obstacles: there...
Upgrading an older laptop is a tricky business; you can only go so far with it, and the upgrade parts tend to be expensive. Indeed, for many laptops, the only possible hardware upgrades are the hard drive and the ram. You can always opt for a bigger h...
These four new drives arrived with a bang, not because any particular model is dramatically superior, but because all four are clearly better than their 500GB predecessors. They’re faster in almost all benchmarks, and they even require less power to op...
Abstract: These three hard drives, namely 500 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 5400.6, as well as 640 GB Samsung SpinPoint M7E receive our Recommended Buy title
Abstract: The Seagate website announces a 750GB model already which seems to hail from a whole new series that, like the junior one, lacks an ordinal number in the end of the name. Unfortunately, we haven..
Now it’s time to sum up all the results and see what HDD is better overall. If you need maximum performance, you may be interested in two models: Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 7200.4. The former is somewhat better for databases o...
Largest 2.5” drive available, Decent value @ ~ $0.10/GB, Energy efficient, Quiet and shock-proof
Slow spindle speed, Only 8MB of cache memory, 3 year warranty is on par with comparable drives (but we’d like to see 5 years)
The Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive appears to be a good, solid performer. It runs cool, is quiet, and quite fast considering its slower spindle speed and meager cache size. With a 3.5" desktop variant we’d expect to see 16MB or 32MB of cache...
Abstract: The Momentus 5400.5 is Seagates third notebook hard drive to feature perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. By magnetizing the data bits perpendicularly to the plane of the platter, it allows a higher areal density than what was previousl....
Abstract: The Momentus 5400.4 is Seagates second notebook hard drive to feature perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. By magnetizing the data bits perpendicularly to the plane of the platter, it allows a higher areal density than what was previous....
