Canada Computers, which is right down the street from my work, just started carrying the Fugitsu 100GB 5400RPM laptop harddrives and I've been thinking about buying one. I'm just not sure if the Fugitsu is of good quality... originally my plan was to get one of the Seagate Momentus 5400RPM laptop harddrives. Is the Fugitsu worse, the same, or better?
Do yourself a favour, and stick with your original plan. Fugitsu = no kung fu. I'd feel very safe going with the Seagate, to the point of where it's not even a question as to which I'd choose.
That was my original gut reaction as well, but I did a search on the Fugitsu model and it seems to have some good technology. I kind of get the impression that Seagate just uses flashier names for its advancements.
I put a Fujitsu 60GB 4200RPM drive in my Archos and it worked flawlessly for the 9 months I had it before I sold it. I have also had a Fujitsu 18GB 150000RPM drive in my system for the last two years, and it has bee rock solid and fast as can be.
Originally Posted by philodox Canada Computers, which is right down the street from my work, just started carrying the Fugitsu 100GB 5400RPM laptop harddrives and I've been thinking about buying one. I'm just not sure if the Fugitsu is of good quality... originally my plan was to get one of the Seagate Momentus 5400RPM laptop harddrives. Is the Fugitsu worse, the same, or better?
Thanks,
My mind implodes when I try to think of how I would even begin to make use of a 100 GB mp3 player. I have a 40 GB player and even if I put all 110 albums that I own on there and I still wouldn't fill it up unless maybe if I went to lossless.
Iron Dreamer - Thanks for the other side of the coin.
This decision is getting harder. Anyone else with advice? Quote:
Originally Posted by Born2bwire My mind implodes when I try to think of how I would even begin to make use of a 100 GB mp3 player. I have a 40 GB player and even if I put all 110 albums that I own on there and I still wouldn't fill it up unless maybe if I went to lossless.
Well, I've filled the 20GB up and I still have more than half of my collection and most of my Wife's collection [I like most of her music] still left to rip. That and the fact that I want some room for expansion... Oh and it would be cool to have a movie or two on there. Right now I have no space. Just a few pictures and the rest is music.
Battery life and speed. Even at 4200 RPM, HDDs are not the limiting factor for the speed of a DAP, laoding or transferring.
I would consider Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi. Seagate does do the flashy thing, but they are only ones that also have a retail presence wil all levels of their drives (except 2.5" fiber channel, currently). For notebook stuff, Seagate and Toshiba are known for having great reliability, and Hitachi isn't far behind, though they still suffer from the stigma of IBM's Death Star management crap. I don't know much about Fujitsu lately.
Toshiba is OEM only.
Fujitsu is OEM only.
Samsung is mostly OEM.
Hitachi is OEM except for desktop drives.
Seagate has OEM and retail presences for their microdrives, notebook drives, normal-size drives, and normal-size SCSI drives (though of course less for the SCSI--mostly at places like Fry's).
Are you sure that the higher RPM drives suck more power? Quote:
Seagate Momentus 5400.2 enables the freedom of mobility and enhanced productivity with 5400-RPM performance. Users experience almost 50 percent more performance compared to 4200-RPM drives, but low power consumption enables users to work longer.
Originally Posted by philodox Are you sure that the higher RPM drives suck more power?
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Users experience almost 50 percent more performance compared to 4200-RPM drives, but low power consumption enables users to work longer.
To me, that statement is ackwardly worded. The first part of the sentence provides a positive fact about the 5400 RPM drive and then they use "but" as the conjunction indicating that the second part is supposed to be a negative aspect thus making it ambiguous as to which drive they're referring to. You don't say, "It's a great day outside, but the sunshine makes me happy." A more meaningful statement would be, "It's a great day outside, but the sunshine increases the occurance of skin cancer."
The higher RPM could consume less power since they do not have to operate as long as the slower drives to read the same file. However, they do experience greater frictional and electromagnetic forces.
I think that 'but' is used in the same way as 'while' in this case. They can be separated to two distinct points. I don't see how they could be meaning the second point as a negative. That said, it does seem wierd that a higher speed drive consumes less power. You might have it right with your second point there that because the drive spins faster it does not need to be running as long. Or perhaps it just consumes less power because it is newer technology. Who knows.
Originally Posted by philodox I think that 'but' is used in the same way as 'while' in this case. They can be separated to two distinct points. I don't see how they could be meaning the second point as a negative. That said, it does seem wierd that a higher speed drive consumes less power. You might have it right with your second point there that because the drive spins faster it does not need to be running as long. Or perhaps it just consumes less power because it is newer technology. Who knows.
Based on Seagate's datasheet, all 4200 RPM Momentus drives have the same specs as their 5400 counterparts when it comes to power.
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