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when will they be released???

post #1 of 11
2/19/05 at 5:43pm
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hi i was just wondering if anybody knows when either a 80 gig or 100 gig notebook harddrive at 7200rpms will be realeased? im going nuts waiting because mine has an 80 gig 4200 and i dont want to upgrade it untill i can at least get the same size drive...

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post #2 of 11
2/19/05 at 11:09pm
when they are ready...
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post #3 of 11
2/19/05 at 11:30pm
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post #4 of 11
2/20/05 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by DarqHelmet
hahahahahahaha laugh my ass off
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post #5 of 11
2/20/05 at 2:58am
lol... 7200 rpm drives don't make shit with me. Cache levels does
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post #6 of 11
2/20/05 at 5:17am
Cache? Most 7200RPM drives are 8MB these days, including Hitachi's notebook drives. The upgrade to 16MB isn't that substantial, there are other things in those drives that speed them up. And anyhow I don't see 16MB drives coming to notebooks any time soon.
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post #7 of 11
2/20/05 at 9:59am
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Originally Posted by 3rdeyeopen23
hi i was just wondering if anybody knows when either a 80 gig or 100 gig notebook harddrive at 7200rpms will be realeased? im going nuts waiting because mine has an 80 gig 4200 and i dont want to upgrade it untill i can at least get the same size drive...

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Why don't you grab a 60G 7200RPM drive now and put your 80G on external?
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post #8 of 11
2/20/05 at 10:03am
cache isn't as important as NCQ, when are they going to put those in lappy drives?

also if you go USB for any HDD it is limited to a max data transfer rate of 13MB/s, that is horribly pitiful if you are transfering lots of data back and forth (the #1 reason why you have an external drive is to copy lots of data back and forth)
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post #9 of 11
2/20/05 at 10:19am
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Originally Posted by Guspaz
Cache? Most 7200RPM drives are 8MB these days, including Hitachi's notebook drives. The upgrade to 16MB isn't that substantial, there are other things in those drives that speed them up. And anyhow I don't see 16MB drives coming to notebooks any time soon.
They've already been out for a bit. Toshiba's latest drive series has a 16MB cache. (My Compal CL56 came with one) According to some comparison reviews, a 16MB doesn't seem to do too much for the drive...or maybe I'm reading the wrong thing into those reviews...


Ooops, never mind, didn't see that 7200rpm drives thingy...
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post #10 of 11
2/20/05 at 10:24am
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Originally Posted by pr50wner
also if you go USB for any HDD it is limited to a max data transfer rate of 13MB/s, that is horribly pitiful if you are transfering lots of data back and forth (the #1 reason why you have an external drive is to copy lots of data back and forth)
Welcome to the world of compromise

I guess it comes down to how bad you want a 7200RPM drive and how much it will interfere with your usage pattern. For backup/restore and extra storage I don't find it to be too bad... just don't try running large programs from it or stuff that will hit the disk frequently. It's slow, yeah, but not unbareable; and of course, this is totally subjective.
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post #11 of 11
2/20/05 at 9:46pm
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Originally Posted by 3rdeyeopen23
hi i was just wondering if anybody knows when either a 80 gig or 100 gig notebook harddrive at 7200rpms will be realeased? im going nuts waiting because mine has an 80 gig 4200 and i dont want to upgrade it untill i can at least get the same size drive...

thanks
To answer your question . . . The Seagate Momentus 100 gb @ 7200 rpm will be available at Best Buy in the early part of May 2005, if not sooner.

I make that statement based on my discussions with the Best Buy sales staff and my e-mails with Seagate's Disc Presales Dept.

I'm waiting, as well.
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