http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/ Engadget Comments for Seagate's Momentus Thin to ship in 160GB / 250GB sizes this January 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/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/
1.8 are used in Ipod's (Non touches), Netbooks, and other pmp's.]]>Dec 14th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/The Lenovo X301 does.]]>Dec 14th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/My wife's "ultraportable" laptop has a 1.8" drive.
It's a Toshiba r200. It's hard to believe she paid $2000 for it just 4-5 years ago. ]]>Dec 14th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/
If I hold a 1 TB Seagate drive in my right hand and a 1 TB Western Digital drive in my left hand, I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two. The PCB's look identical, the aluminum case looks the same, et cetera.

I guess I thought that the two manufacture's outsourced their production to the same place. Clearly I'm wrong but the two drives look awful similar to me.]]>Dec 14th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Top Tip:
Don't trust any rapidly spinning magnetic disk with you data.
All manufacturers drives can fail at any point in their life. Just because you have had a bad experience with one brand doesn't necessarily mean they are any worse than anyone else.
Backup people! ]]>Dec 14th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/I agree with you 100%. Seagate's drives are garbage - their failure rate is around 40%, especially for the Barracuda series. And the way they dealed with users' reports is shocking. Western Digital all the way, baby!]]>Dec 14th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/ Not only did that cause us some major problems, but when I send these these drive back for rma, they send me back the same exact model, with the old firmware on them that cause the issue that I had to send them back for. Also, some drives that were returned had scratches on the sides that were colored in black with magic marker or sharpie and some drive lids had scratches on them around the label. Piss poor QA.
I am slowly trying to replace all Seagate drives with Western Digital. Our failure rate for WD is far less than Seagate. About 1 WD to every 3 Seagate. I will never use a Seagate in my personal machine and I have convinced the company to never order another server with a Seagate drive in it.]]>Dec 14th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Very insightful comment. Seagate have gone WAY downhill the past few years...they have SO much to make up for with the Barracuda bullshit...I don't think I would trust it either. Another thing is that these smaller drives are very VERY slow with only 5400RPM. SSDs are, and will be a wayy better option when it comes to storage for portable devices...they just need to come down in price and have larger capacities, but that is already happening as I write this.]]>Dec 14th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/
They aren't from the same manufacturer. Seagate and Maxtor harddrives ARE pretty much the same though because they are the same company now.]]>Dec 14th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/SSD I'd shit everyone here.]]>Dec 14th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/1.5inch drives have quite a bit smaller overall dimensions than normal 2.5inch drives, not just thickness.]]>Dec 14th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/get a hitachi drive, they are the best]]>Dec 14th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/
I would also like to see computer manufacturers bring back cartridges. My Commodore 64 had a cartridge slot in the back for games; I'd like to have a cartridge slot for 2.5" drives. Oh wait, my Thinkpad does actually have something like that. Never mind. ]]>Dec 14th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Hear, hear!]]>Dec 14th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/"hey, if i can get more storage in a 1.8" with a better reader, maybe i could increase the space in a 2.5" drive too"
i want a 750GB hdd, even though i wont buy it, it will be make the 500GB drives even more cheaper]]>Dec 14th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/Dec 14th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/seagates-momentus-thin-to-ship-in-160gb-250gb-sizes-this-janu/ok but are they the standard 9.5mm??
if they are the standard 9.5 they will fit in all laptops and the ps3
which means more people will buy them and the higher sales will cause a price reduction
if they arent the standard 9.5 then i've proven my point
if they are then sweet cheaper hdd's now]]>Dec 14th 2009 11:08PM