Seagate announces 100 GB 7200 rpm drives o_O

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Seagate announces 100 GB 7200 rpm drives o_O

#1 Post by Chun-Yu » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:17 pm

http://www.storagereview.com/Seagate_Mo ... 7200-1.pdf

I wonder if active HD protection would work with that...IBM says they use specially modified firmware so probably not :'-(
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#2 Post by JHEM » Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:33 pm

That's nice to see, if only as a hint of what's soon to come from other manufacturers.

Personally, I wouldn't touch a Seagate HD with a barge-pole!

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Finally, we have some better drives for notebook

#3 Post by Bala Pitchandi » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:53 pm

I say its about time...

The two areas in the notebook, where the advancements are slow and far between are batteries and harddrives.

I have a 6-year old Thinkpad 380XD whose battery life is pretty much (1 hour) in the ballpark of the basic laptop of today....

I wonder how long before IBM picks up this... Or the question should *if* they would pick these up.

Does IBM use only Hitachi TravelStar HDDs or they have used Seagates before?
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#4 Post by akerman » Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:48 pm

wow nice...

Seagate is the best HD manufacturer in my book, along with Western Digital.
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#5 Post by JHEM » Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:58 pm

akerman wrote:Seagate is the best HD manufacturer in my book, along with Western Digital.
Seagate's laptop HDs were abysmal.

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#6 Post by akerman » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:30 pm

Yeah, don't know anything about 2.5" hds... we can only hope that this new series inherits the excellent traits of its desktop counterpat!
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#7 Post by lilserenity » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:46 pm

JHEM wrote:
akerman wrote:Seagate is the best HD manufacturer in my book, along with Western Digital.
Seagate's laptop HDs were abysmal.

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That was hmmm 1992. (the A600/1200 took 2.5" ATA drives and supported a stonking PIO mode 2 ;-))

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