Comments for: Seagate announces Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive

#1. Posted at 07:38 AM on Oct 30th 2006

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ElderDruid

Why would 5400RPM make the most sense for the technology? I wouldn't buy a laptop for myself unless it had a 7200RPM drive. Pairing a slow hard drive with the typical dual-core, 1GB+ configuration is sheer stupidity (at least for someone who needs to run software more demanding than Powerpoint).

#1, Battery life : Taddeusz (#2) «

#1, Its a laptop hard drive, laptops aren't meant to be high pow... : d2brothe (#3) «

#1, Aside from what others have mentioned, I should also point o... : Retiky (#7) «

#7, heh...defragging is the most fun, but you have a good poi... : d2brothe (#8) «

#1, "sheer stupidity" Feel the love!!! All that has been mentione... : SGT Lindy (#9) «

#9, There isn't much difference in performance between a perp... : Gandhi (#10) «

#1, yeah, it's totally stupid! in fact, why do they even bother ... : willyolio (#11) «

#1, Perhaps the dedicated asic simply can't process data quick e... : AbRASiON (#12) «

#4. Posted at 08:42 AM on Oct 30th 2006

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Fearless Leader

Could the RIAA misconstrue this 128-bit encryption technology as a protection for piracy and go after Seagate? For example, would this encryption also prevent RIAA from looking at the contents of ones disk drive?

#4, Not really, because in the US, if you don't comply with the ... : nexxcat (#6) «

#5. Posted at 08:43 AM on Oct 30th 2006

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Furen

I wonder how these will boot... I've never used the ATA password fuction mentioned in the article so I don't know much about that. I assume the bios will need to be aware of these and a password will have to be entered before booting.