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    Anybody heard about the new Seagate 500GB?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by vistanoob18, Oct 9, 2008.

  1. vistanoob18

    vistanoob18 Notebook Guru

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    vistanoob18, Oct 9, 2008
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    My thoughts are that your link does not work. It needs you to log in. oh for the hard drive, yeah thats cool. Everything will always keep moving forward in tech. It wont be long before 1tb ones emerge.
     
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    but will it not get hot
     
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  4. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    If Seagate 7200.4 500GB is the first 500GB/7200rpm to make it to the market, it will be the fastest hard drive at that moment.

    Not any hotter than the current 320GB/7200 rpm drives. Usually it's not a problem although just a couple of days ago someone reported his Hitachi 7K320 being shutoff in a Macbook Pro because it was getting too hot. This problem is also caused by the not so good cooling in the MBP.
     
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    Han Bao Quan The Assassin

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    MBP cooling system is one of the worst! The whole chassis is a heat sink. Wouldn't be a surprise if the HDD dies.
     
    Han Bao Quan, Oct 10, 2008
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    didnt know that. so much for style lol
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    MBP are also bad in the noise department.
    Their tin/psuedo aluminum shell reverberates noise, amplifying the sound from harddrives.
    Also every mac book I have seen does not have any rubber grommets around the harddrive or harddrive caddy, thus the drive will vibrate and the vibrations will be picked up directly by the system,

    The reason macbooks get hot is their poor cooling design. Most have air vents in the keyboard, which is not nearly as efficient as a physical vent on the side or bottom.

    The 500gb seagate drive will be followed by hitachi and wd 500gb 7200rpm drives. I contacted Hitachi and they said they will have some competition to give seagate another run for the money.
    Most likely the drive will not run much hotter since the same motors are being used as the current 7200rpm drives, so if the drives are just higher density, and the cache buffer is the same, temperatures should be about the same as the 320gb variants.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Oct 10, 2008
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    LGt400 Notebook Geek

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    does any one know of the release date?

    I am being told 7200.3 is the fastest ATM....if so i definitely want to wait for the 500gb
     
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    I'm interested in a release date as well. The only thing I could find was that it was going to be the 4th quarter of this year. I'm pretty excited about them and I think I'm going to wait for them instead of picking up a 5400rpm. Besides the fact I was going to have to wait for the western digital anyway.
     
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    I agree with everything but that. I have replaced HDDs on all of my MacBook Pros (dating back to the Aluma iBook G4 range) and they all have had washers/grommets between the screw heads and the HDD cage and notebook chasis. Could be true for the MacBooks though.


    /Saad
     
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  11. aimfox

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    500GB for a laptop? It's not like you need 7,200 for a laptop unless you don't carry it around
     
    aimfox, Oct 10, 2008
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