http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/ Engadget Comments for Seagate's 7mm Momentus Thin 2.5-inch hard disk for slim, high-capacity laptops: a world's first http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/The 7200.11 1.5TB drives are fine. I own 4 of them. One is constantly being written/read (torrents) and has never failed on me.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Its the luck of the draw with those drives. Go on Newegg and read the reviews. I have had 2 replacements die on me already and I refuse to take a chance on seagate with my data again. Not to mention 2 external drives that both had their USB ports pop out. I had to resort to cracking the things open and taking out the HD's so I can restore my data, thus voiding my warranties.]]>Dec 8th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/1,8" is just too slow for anything but a pmp. imho.]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/yep. ill also get a 1tb one, if these suckers come out at last]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
Of course, you don’t really get any more performance with the optical drive gone. The thinner case will require components to be spread and the cooling HW to take up more area. Same goes for the battery just to have the sam mAh.

This trend will have its pros and cons, but it will be where things will move to. This will just be a cheaper solution to 2.5” SSDs for these thin notebooks. Nothing more, nothing less, though we should see 400GB+ single-platter 2.5” HDDs in 2010.]]>Dec 8th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
There are 7mm ODD
Like the one on ThinkPad X301]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 9th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
Recall that nearly all drives have a read head on both sides of the platter. I'm guessing that removing the second read got Seagate the extra 2.5mm they shaved off these things. So Seagate's slimmer drives will probably max out at 160GB or so with current maximum platter densities.]]>Dec 8th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/Dec 8th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/you are quite short sighted. do you really want to store your media on ssd? go ahead. but i put my movies, pictures, movies and also games on a hdd for a tenth of the cost per gb.

for the system and programs, sure, ssd is the way to go.]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/No, I'm not saying that at all. I have a 500gig platter in my tower, as well as a 500gig platter external. What I'm saying is that I really wish the companies would start investing all of their money into developing and furthering SSD technology so that I can sooner put all that stuff onto an SSD. I know that for now at least platters are the way to go. But if the big companies spent their money researching SSDs instead of platters, SSDs would soon easily overtake any and all platters. Even in RAID, platters wouldn't be able to compete with an SSD. This situation is analogous to how the American auto industry killed the electric car. They started getting popular, and people started to buy them instead of gasoline-powered vehicles. GM and their cohorts in the industry couldn't see past the crap in their colons to understand that electric cars were and ARE how things are going to be. Quite literally, gasoline-powered cars are only still in development because of the ridiculous selfishness of the big-name auto companies.]]>Dec 8th 2009 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
Then you are myopic to think that companies have to stop all R&D in one area and go full on all eggs in one basket simply because a newer technology will eventually surpass it.

The fact is that they invest in many technologies. Seagate also announced enterprise-grade SSDs this day. And a 160GB single platter 1.8” HDD was just announced by Toshiba a few months ago along with the new iPod Classic, up from 120GB. We’ll see the 1.8” HDDs fade away, like the 1” HDDs did, before we see the 2.5” and 3.5” HDDs die off.

They are fast enough and reliable enough to make the lower cost per GB well worth it for most uses at this point.]]>Dec 9th 2009 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
click click click............PAUSE

don't do it! run away as fast as you can!!!

I'm still waiting for a firmware fix to my seagate st9500420ASG. Grrrr, how dare they. Grrrr.]]>Dec 9th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/
I remember when a 40 megabyte hard drive was considered extravagant and weighed more than the computer; C=64's were very light-weight.]]>Dec 14th 2009 2:46PM