Seagate Unveils High-Speed 120 GB Laptop Drives

Torrey Clark writes "Seagate Technology announced in a press release yesterday that they have started selling notebook drives with Serial ATA technology, in addition to releasing higher-capacity models. The Momentus 5400.2 drive has a capacity of 120GB, and is available with either SATA or the more common PATA interfaces. Seagate also released an SATA version of their Momentus 7200.1 100GB and 80GB drives, as well as a 120GB Momentus 4200.2, available only in PATA."

mmmmmmm

[klatty]

Mmmmm fast laptop drives....and since they are Seagate I'd trust they are quiet....

I want one, or five.

SATA laptop drives aren't new

[Quattro Vezina]

My Toshiba laptop (Tecra M3) has a SATA drive, which is also made by Toshiba.

Why is Seagate joining in significant?

Re:SATA laptop drives aren't new

[tehcrazybob]

It's significant because it's not a Toshiba. I realize that you may have had a good time with your Toshiba drive, but that's not always the case. I had a Toshiba laptop hard drive fail on me a few months ago, and I did some Googling, and discovered that it's very common for Toshiba drives to fail after only a few (10) months of service.

However, this may not apply to their SATA offerings.

Too much disk space

[pyrrhonist]

You know people have way too much disk space when a SATA drive article only garners three posts after an hour and a half.

Will they run ashot as the current Momentus series

[Tsuma]

Just installed a 40 GB for my dad. Speedfan reports a consistent 47 C vs. 39 C for my Hitachi (same 5400 RPM speed and capacity)