StorageReview reviews 4 2.5" inch 160GB notebook hard drives including:
Hitachi Travelstar 5K160
Seagate Momentus 5400.3
Seagate Momentus 7200.2
Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVS
The 2.5" notebook drive market continues to expand with several manufacturers recently announcing units that manage to cram 200 GB or more inside their tiny cases. Widespread use of perpendicular recording methods, where bits of information are stored on platters vertically rather than horizontally, fuels continually rising capacities.
Manufacturers and users alike also watch in anticipation as this final sector of drive-based storage continues to evolve and consolidate from its older legacy paradigm of a 2x22 pin grid power/data connector to the increasingly consistent 22-contact paradigm enjoyed by the SATA and SAS standards.
As we prepare to turn our attention to a series of individual drive reviews that pit the newest contender against other similar units, let us take this time to strengthen the base against which new units may be compared by rounding up a few 160-gigabyte drives submitted by Hitachi, Seagate, and WD...
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