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Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB 2.5" HDD

The HDDs

The Seagate Momentus 5400.3 looks like any other 2.5" HDD. Internally, the 5400.3 is the first Seagate drive to use Perpendicular Recording Technology. Click on the image for a larger version:

Here are the specs of the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 from Seagate documentation found on their website:

After formatting, 160 "billion bytes" roughly equals 149GB in Windows XP. 5400RPM and 8MB of cache is pretty much standard these days.

Best of all, Seagate offers spectacular support of their product with an industry-leading 5-year warranty:

Next: Test Setup

Table Of Contents

   1. Introduction

   2. The HDDs

   3. Test Setup

   4. Windows XP SP2 Results

   5. Conclusion