Digital Home Thoughts: Seagate Beings Shipping 320 GB, 7200 RPM Laptop Hard Drives

"Seagate Momentus 7200.3 hard drive, the 7,200-rpm, 320GB hard drive for mobile computing, powers Dell XPS laptop PCs and will be available soon in select Alienware laptops – making the computer manufacturers first to market with systems featuring 320GB hard drives. “Laptop users want every bit of capacity, performance and durability that desktop PCs deliver,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business. “The new Momentus 7200.3 hard drive exemplifies Seagate’s focus on delivering leading storage technologies that make it easier to move, use and protect digital information in the home, in the office and on-the-go.” Designed for performance laptops, workstations and small form factor desktop PCs, the Momentus 7200.3 hard drive for on-the-go workers and consumers combines the industry’s lowest power consumption, free-fall protection and industry-leading performance. Seagate’s new 2.5-inch hard drive delivers up to 320GB of capacity and combines a Serial ATA 3.0 Gbit/second interface with 7200-rpm spin speed and a 16MB cache to enable the highest-performance laptops ever."


People often underestimate the importance of a fast hard drive to the overall performance of a system - between your CPU, RAM, and hard drive, guess what the slowest part of the chain is? The hard drive - so the faster the hard drive you can get, the more responsive your system will be. This is even more critical when it comes to laptops, whose overall performance tends to drag behind that of an equivalent desktop. What I'm really waiting for is the world's first 10,000 RPM laptop hard drive - now that would scream!