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    Image of jayhawk11 owns property now!!! jayhawk11 owns property now!!!
    12/14/09

    In reply to Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive
    I'll be waiting for some dumbass to throw this in their regular laptop and start bitching about vibration/rattling.
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    Image of FalconFour FalconFour
    12/14/09

    @jayhawk11 owns property now!!!: Hello, my name is dumbass. I put thin laptop hard drives in spaces made for larger ones, and use screws to screw them down so they don't vibrate/rattle. I'm from 2000 when some still-usable laptops used thicker hard drives that needed to be upgraded to thinner ones. I seem to be doing just fine, thank you for the concern!
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    Image of suland suland
    12/14/09

    In reply to Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive
    Might be useful for PMP's. Otherwise - how much lighter it is?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @suland: A 2.5" drive is significantly larger than the current 1.8 that iPods and the like use. The weight probably won't make much of a difference since it's only a matter of ounces.
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    Image of daftrok daftrok
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Ounces is a lot if you're talking about PMPs. Maybe they can make a super thin 1.8" HDD and put those in PMPs instead.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @daftrok: 1.8" drives are fairly thin as it is, so there's probably not going to be any considerable benefit getting thinner. Besides, HDD-based PMP's are a dying breed. I don't suppose they're long for this world, what with 64GB flash-based PMP's now reaching more affordable prices, making the way for possibly twice that by the end of next year.
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    In reply to Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive
    Thinnest. 2.5". As in, thinner than other 2.5" drives? Yet it's a 2.5" drive.
    Does. Not. Compute.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: Width != Thickness.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: Your laptop is HUGE
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: at 10 lbs, yes.
    I always assumed that, since desktops are bigger and tend to use 3.5" drives... it was referring to height.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: 10? I'll bet my Inspiron beats it by a good 50. The Club Sandwich of laptops.
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I opted out of the double turkey option; was going to install it myself, but I am too lazy. Shitty BLT.
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    Image of telepheedian telepheedian
    11/19/09

    In reply to Olive 4 HD Music Player Brings Minor Updates, Now Costs $2,000
    Useless if all it does is play back FLAC rips of CDs. I could see some value in it, however, if it plays back 24bit/96khz Vinyl rips. CDs just don't come in 96khz.
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    Image of mrburglar mrburglar
    11/19/09

    @telepheedian: You think you're going to get better music quality from a 96khz rip of vinyl than from Redbook CD? Dream on.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/19/09

    @mrburglar: Do I think I'm going to get better music quality from a 96kHz/24bit rip of a vinyl than a redbook CD? Why on earth would you think otherwise? See, one is analog. Therefore when you digitize it at a higher resolution and sampling rate, you will get a digital representation that is truer to the originally recorded music. Not particularly hard to understand.
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    Image of outsdr outsdr
    01/15/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Have there been any reports of drives failing AFTER the firmware update? I've updated the firmware on mine, but I'm afraid to trust it. I think I'm going to put it in an external box and use it for a TimeMachine drive on my Mac. At least then, if it fails, it's only taken the backup with it.
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Wow that sucks. Getting my new MOBO tomorrow so I can finish the new setup with 2 1tb Seagate barracudas (32MB cache) in raid 0 and I was really excited. Good thing I haven't opened the boxes yet.


    Or I could just roll the dice and see if they work. If they don't, class action lawsuit here I come.

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    Image of Ryanraven Ryanraven
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Glad i have a WD hard drive...... *checks case just to be sure*
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Seagate Barracuda is the new Hitachi Deskstar


    had to be said. sorry seagate, you served me well thus far

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    I sure hope the 1.5 TB drives aren't affected. :o
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Based on that image I smell more than a class action lawsuit...
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Heh, and here I can remember a day when Seagate released an entire batch of SCSI drives with bad spindles. You could reliably predict their failure time within ~3 weeks based on production date.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    I bought *8* Seagate 7200.11 1.5 TB models recently to attach to an Adaptec RAID card. After much huffing, puffing, blowing the house down, and firmware updates, it wound up that 1) Adaptec said they don't support this drive on their cards, and 2) Seagate basically told me, "Don't use these drives in a RAID."


    Grrrr....

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."


    -Seagate CEO


    [money.cnn.com]

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    Image of Doc Gonzo Doc Gonzo
    01/13/09

    @admoseremic: Face it, ya gotta renew yer porn collection every once in a while...
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    Image of William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
    01/13/09

    @Doc Gonzo: By golly, ye're right matey, a sailor needs one girl for every harbor!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/13/09

    @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshi...: I thought it was the girl who needed a sailor in every port?
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    Image of lodleader lodleader
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    first time i have ever said this...


    FAIL SEAGATE!

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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    01/13/09

    @lodleader: I had to download the Newegg patch to get my Seagate 1.5TB drive to stop freezing on me. There's no firmware generally available at Seagates sight. Seagate is the perfect drive company till they have problems then you get to see the really bad side of a company with poor ...down right horrible support.


    I'll still go with them chiefly because I have a solution to the known problem with my model and that it's the largest drive money can buy but I seriously wouldn't hesitate to go WD if they can offer superior specs.


    The next storage expansion I do will require me to buy 5 drives at once and if I see an alternative, I'll take it; Seagate has burned out all the good will it took them 10 years to build with me.

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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    01/13/09

    In reply to 1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
    Shit. I just got a Seagate 7200.11 1TB model for xmas.


    Thing makes some seriously uncool sounding clicking noises.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/13/09

    @Log1c: I guess you thought you made Santa's "Nice" list.


    Sorry. You got time-delay coal.

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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/13/09

    @Log1c: Looks like you've got your work cut out for you if you want to make it back on the 'nice' list before the end of the year...
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    Image of Invisobel Invisobel
    01/13/09

    @Log1c: I got one of these and it is working fine. Haven't had a
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    01/13/09

    @Invisobel: Awesome.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    01/13/09

    @Invisobel:


    spot on.

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