By Andreas Lee

hard disks drives

Hard disks drives are a device that is needed in the world today since the industrial era changed over the technology era. This computer hardware stores important information in the data form which works as document storage. Hard disks drives are even much more efficient because of its small size, it can save hundreds thousands data, and does not use a lot of space in your room, compared with using document storage to store your files.

Accesses to the hard disks drives are also much easier than opening your document storage. The time needed to access your data from it is 10 milliseconds after you click on the mouse. You also do not need to spend much time to store your files. The time needed to store the files is 10 MB per second that means the hundreds of files can be stored in less than 15 seconds, just a few clicks on your mouse and your important files will be saved quickly.

Various devices have installed hard disks drives within it such as camcorders which can record your important moments and save them. The other device is laptop / notebook, which provides a lot of efficiency such as saving and accessing your files anywhere.

Along with the development of technology, now you can take handy hundreds of important files by storing them into the external hard disks drives. Compare if you take hundreds of them without using this hardware, it’s impossible to take a walk with your storage.

Portable external hard disks drives can be easily carried, lighter and smaller than internal hard disks drives, you can also access the external hard drives through the home computer, office computer, your friend’s computer, or on the laptop.

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By Andreas Lee

One thing that people often take a look when buying a laptop (notebook) is laptop drives. The most frequently asked question is which laptop drives are best for my new laptop? The best answer is SATA drive. It has a better performance than the preceding IDE drive and a larger capacity, some have a 500 GB capacity.

Besides its performance and capacity which give advantage to SATA drive, you can also replace your laptop drives. It means that SATA drive is not installed permanently in your laptop.

If you already have a laptop and want to replace your old laptop drives with a new one, Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB can provide the best performance for you.

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB

laptop hard drive

This Seagate’s new product gives satisfaction for laptop drives performance needs these days. Its model is like ordinary laptop drives, but no need to doubt its performance. With hard drive technology developed by Seagate from generation to generation, long durability, 7200 rpm spindle speed, 16 MB buffer cache size, 300 MB transfer rate, and 500 GB capacity, Seagate Momentus gives 3 factors which are needed by computer users: Performance, Capacity, Durability.

High class transfer rate helps you to complete your task with minimum waiting time, and large capacity helps to fulfill your capacity needs in the long term. No need to worry about your laptop drives performance slowing down when transferring large amount of data at the same time. Seagate Momentus can do it for you.

The good news is 7200 rpm rotation speed saves your laptop battery. It is important to know that laptop drives which have 7200 rpm rotation speed saves your laptop battery more than laptop drives which have 5400 rotation speed.

Specs

• Capacity : 500 GB
• Buffer size : 16 MB
• Rotation speed : 7200 rpm
• Transfer speed : 300 MB
• Interface type : Serial ATA-300
• Features : G-Force Protection, QuietStep, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Ramp Load, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR)

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