Seagate's 250GB laptop drive now shipping for $165

That does it. Seagate's 250GB Momentus 5400.4 laptop drive is now shipping. Spec-wise, it's on par with Hitachi, Samsung, Western Digital, and Fujitsu and makes 9.5-mm high, 2.5-inch, 250GB disks spinning at 5,400RPM near ubiquitous. Seagate's explanation for coming so late to the party? Easy, now is simply the right time. Whatever, just throw your keys in the bowl and kiss your husband goodnight, we can sort out the details later.

[Via TGDaily]

[fitzy @ Jan 22nd 2008 6:39AM]

lots of portable pr0n!

[Sam @ Jan 22nd 2008 7:03AM]

Yeah, I'll just get this to replace my failed Seagate 7.01 hard drive in my macbook. Oh wait, I got a reliable brand because Seagate didn't make a 250Gb at the time. Oh well, maybe I can just erase all my data manually.

[torqueo @ Jan 22nd 2008 7:28AM]

Would you care for some cheese with your whine?

[Sam @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:41AM]

touché

[Hung @ Jan 22nd 2008 9:18PM]

"I give this thread two thumbs up!" - Roger & Ebert

[Kurian @ Jan 22nd 2008 7:33AM]

Now for a PS3 ISO loader...

[Marrvia @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:39PM]

I wish......

[ScOObyDoo @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:13AM]

Buy.com has the 320Gb WD Passport for $169. Rip it open and take the SATA 320 drive out for your own notebook.

[Julian Bond @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:21AM]

So where's the 250Gb-320Gb PMP?

[KyleK @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:24AM]

I've never seen a PMP that uses a 2.5" drive. I can't imagine such a thing exists, as these drives are power hogs (compared to 1.8" versions).

[ScOObyDoo @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:44AM]

Archos 605 units do.

[Julian Bond @ Jan 22nd 2008 9:28AM]

I'm still using my Creative Zen Xtra with a hacked in 80Gb 2.5" drive. A slight problem is that it uses an IDE drive and the larger storage versions of current 2.5" drives tend to be SATA. The old Zen also has problems with >60Gb of data and large numbers of files as there's limited space for metadata.

2.5" drives are bigger and use more power than 1.8" so not ideal for a PMP. But they also come in much bigger storage sizes and some of us have v large libraries. FWIW, I get about 10 hours out of the Zen, which is enough.

I really wish Creative or somebody would make a successor or at least fix the firmware. But the market is obsessed with small and shiny.

[Hotrod @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:29AM]

"throw your keys in the bowl and kiss your husband goodnight" reminded me of Radiohead - house of cards I believe

[cheebs @ Jan 22nd 2008 12:55PM]

Infrastructure will collapse.... Voltage Spikes.

[Umberto @ Jan 22nd 2008 4:02PM]

Uhh. So what you're saying is now we can unexpectedly lose almost twice as much data from our Seagate drives as we could before. Can you say le awesome!

[Ashraf @ Jan 22nd 2008 4:58PM]

yayy! now this can be my 2nd hard drive for my laptop since it has TWO hard drive bays.

410 GB in all. lol

nvm...i'll put a SSD in there when the prices drop.