Seagate Lanches 3GB/s Momentus Notebook Hard Drive

malware · Mar 12, 2007, 11:35 AM

Seagate announced that it has begun shipping its Momentus 7200.2 2.5" hard drive with a 3 GB/s SATA interface. The Momentus 7200.2 with a platter rotation speed of 7200 rpm and perpendicular recording technology has been shipping for some time with a 1.5 GB/s SATA port and now promises twice the available bandwidth. The capacity remains at a maximum of 160GB; 80GB, 100GB and 120GB versions are available as well.

Source: THG

Mussels · Mar 12, 2007, 12:51 PM

not sure it'd make it any faster, but progess is progress. (and 7200RPM is sweet)

wiak · Mar 12, 2007, 02:06 PM

good news, by far is 7200rpm, its nice that manufacutes starts to release more 7200rpm drives, 5400rpm is realy slow, if you wanna have a highend laptop for gaming (x1800+cd2 t7200) ^^

Completely Bonkers · Mar 12, 2007, 02:51 PM

I don't think you will notice any difference on a laptop UNTIL the HDD cache sizes get bigger. Then you can rip at 3GB/s from the cache. You'll feel that!

WarEagleAU · Mar 12, 2007, 05:23 PM

Its just about damn time the mobile market caught up with the desktop side of things. For instance, on this notebook here, its a Dell Latitude D610, it has a 40 GB drive or something like that and alot of times its slow. Like right now. Nice to see this stuff made faster.

Mar 12, 2007, 11:35 AM	#1
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Mar 12, 2007, 02:06 PM	#3
wiak Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 1,682 (0.52/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 199 Times in 156 Posts	good news, by far is 7200rpm, its nice that manufacutes starts to release more 7200rpm drives, 5400rpm is realy slow, if you wanna have a highend laptop for gaming (x1800+cd2 t7200) ^^ __________________ My rig @ overclock.net \| My new friend OpenShot

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