Re: [Thinkpad] repost: Any experience with Seagate ST9160821A 160GB 5400rpm?

Hello,

I have two that I am using since this summer. One in my T43p, one in a
MacAlly PHR-250CC external drive enclosure. The drive does not seem as
fast in the T43p as the Hitachi TravelStar 7K100 (100MB, 7200RPM) which
it replaced, but only slight. I believe that as data density increases
on the platter read speeds go up, though. In any case, it only appears
to be slightly slower. It is, however, cooler and quieter.

I have seen one report of an issue with a Seagate 2.5" SATA drive in an
Apple MacBook computer, however, it is not clear to me if the two disks
share any parts in common.

Details: http://www.retrodata.co.uk/notice_apple_seagate_drives.php

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 08:24 PM 10/30/2007, you wrote:
>Message: 12
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:24:31 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Laurence Spiegel <tahiti444-thinkpad@yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] repost: Any experience with Seagate ST9160821A
> 160GB 5400rpm?
>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Message-ID: <957818.29086.qm@web60722.mail.yahoo.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>I posted this previously in a way that made the subject line
>disconnect from the content. This should be more readable, please
>pardon the double post.
>
>Does anyone have experience with the Seagate 2.5" notebook drive
>ST9160821A 160GB 5400rpm?
>
>It's been out for >1 year now, so perhaps it's been debugged?
>I focus on it b/c it has
>i. large enough to simplify matters (rarely need to xfer things off
>ii has reviewed well
>iii seems to equal the minimum and exceed the average write speed of
>the 7K60 "Deathstar", which has the useful property that it's
>minimum write speed is just enough to capture video without difficulty.
>iv Easily available, 5yr warranty (but getting a free replacement
>unreliable drive is no deal) and cheap enough.
>
>Reviews:
>SilentPC http://www.silentpcreview.com/article298-page3.html
>Xbit labs,
>2006 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/25inch-hdd-5400_8.html
>
>Knowledgable folks here have reccomended against anything over 100GB.
>
>"Reliability drops significantly with all brands when you use drives
>of 7200 rpm, or larger than 100 GB"
>
>Is this particular drive an exception? (thinking wishfully) If not,
>would a 100x5400 or 120x5400 Seagate be trustworthy?
>
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