pricey.... hmmm.... I want it to be $150, like the Western Digital. I guess they've figured out that they can get a premium over WD because of their 5 year warranty instead of 3 years...

Not bad for a laptop harddrive.

I'd prefer RAID configuration with this but SATA is ok.

I thought it was the 32mb cache vs the western digital caviar's 16mb (that's the one that was $150 last week)

#2,
What laptop takes a 3.5" hard drive?

PWNED
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m2010?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19

This drive is fast. I have 4 in an external enclosure in RAID 5 and and they are faster than the internal SCSI RAID 5 on the server.

#5, the xps 2010 still uses notebook harddrives.

Fry's had both the SATA and IDE versions for $150 or so last weekend, although that may be the 16MB version. But there's not supposed to be any performance difference between 16MB and 32MB of on-board storage, for workstations at least (and little difference between 8 and 16MB for that matter).

I've been sticking with WD --quieter, cooler, less power consumption and they actually work with DVRs. I'm concerned that there may be aproblem with the Seagates due to their lousy track record with HD-DVRS.

#8, I use a 320gb seagate for my MCE dvr, it works perfectly.

#6, what SCSI drives and rpm are you using internally? If you go SCSI, might as well get the 15k rpms.

What are the seek times w/ the Seagate here?

OMFG WTF is a troll who gets his jollies by posting outrageous crap or fake websites, the best thing to do is ignore him. a 1-2 hour battery (idle vs using it) life really isn't a laptop, it's more of a portable desktop. and like he said, it doesn't use 3.5" drives. rodeo cowboy. who's powned now?

you thumbplum, because you clicked on the link!

boooya!

Generally you probably won't notice a speed difference from 16MB to 32MB. I mean come on, look how cheap 4GB DDR2 is now. It's about $100, less when on special! They aren't putting in hundreds of MB of cache because of cost, it's because a little helps, but any more is just a waste and doesn't help performance.

5 yr warranty is nice, and Seagate HD is generally very quiet, but $180 is too pricey.

#13, you rodeo cowboy. cache and RAM are totally separate kinds of storage. If they could put 4GB of cache in a HD or on a processor they would. And cache is way more expensive than RAM (though that's not the reason there isn't more in HD's or on processors).

#10, Electrikal:

Average latency 4.16 msec
Random read seek time <8.5 msec
Random write seek time <9.5 msec

You should also look at the throughput:

for the 7200.11 line: 105MB/s
for the 7200.10 line: 78MB/s
for the 7200.9 line: don't know, but even less