Tag Archives: momentus

Size matters – in more ways than you think

November 19, 2009 – 9:37 am

Bigger is better in the disk drive world.  But you might be surprised at how much better.

Robin Harris wrote a great piece on why high capacity drives offer much more [....]

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The “evil maid” hack can’t touch self-encrypting drives

October 28, 2009 – 2:16 pm

There’s a new chink in the armor of software-based drive encryption – the Evil Maid Hack.  Privacy Digest explains how it works. 

Just like hacks before it (remember Cold Boot?), the [....]

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Seagate drives are faster with Microsoft Windows 7

October 15, 2009 – 2:51 pm

Microsoft may have a hit on their hands with Windows 7.  If you still need convincing, here’s one more reason:  Seagate disk drives go faster on Windows 7.

Seagate internal tests have [....]

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Tom’s Hardware: “There is no alternative” to Momentus 7200

June 23, 2009 – 8:02 am

Tom’s Hardware conducted an extensive review of seven laptop disk drives.  The conclusion was that it’s a horse race for the most part, with one exception:  The 500 [....]

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500GB for your MacBook

May 27, 2009 – 8:50 am

CNet Asia’s Crave blog dropped a 500GB Seagate Momentus drive into a MacBook…and there was much rejoicing.

The maximum capacity from Apple is 320GB. CNET says the install was not difficult [....]

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Upgrade your notebook drive in three easy steps

May 21, 2009 – 2:40 pm

Geek.com demonstrates an ultra-simple process to swap out your notebook drive for a bigger or faster one:

Clone the old notebook drive with DiscWizard
Remove the old drive from the notebook
Install [....]

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Seagate Momentus arms Mobile Armor for military-grade data security

May 15, 2009 – 8:18 am

Mobile Armor provides data protection solutions for the U.S. military and other risk-averse data users. 

The military uses PCs as much or more than any organization, of course.  As you can imagine, preventing data [....]

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Faster notebook drives are becoming the norm

April 17, 2009 – 4:12 am

7200 rpm notebook hard drives used to be a luxury, something for the power user. 

That’s no longer the case.  7200 rpm drives are quicly becoming the best choice for mainstream [....]

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The dawning of the Age of the Notebook

April 2, 2009 – 2:21 pm

Notebooks surpass desktop PCs for the first time

Source: uulyrics.com

According to Byte and Switch and iSupply, notebooks finally surpassed desktops in global unit shipment volume. 

There’s no turning back, either.  [....]

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The strong, silent type for notebooks

March 6, 2009 – 5:17 am

 

Silent PC Review tested – and I mean tested! - the latest 500GB 2-platter 2.5″ drives from Seagate and WD. Their conclusion for notebook users looking to replace their existing drive is that “Seagate [....]

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