Seagate 9W3277-556 100GB 2.5" Notebook Internal Hard Drive

by Seagate

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006FS268
• Item model number: 9W3277-556
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2004

Product Description

From the manufacturer

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.

Features

SoftSonic FDB motor: Delivers inaudible operating acoustics.

QuietStep ramp load technology: Enables whisper-quiet load/unload acoustics and 900 G's of non-operating shock tolerance.

8-Mb cache buffer: Optimizes performance so applications run fast and smooth.

5400-RPM spin speed: Provides almost 50 percent more performance for notebook computers while maintaining battery longevity.

Distinctions:

• 4200-like power consumption for maximum battery life
• Whisper-quiet load/unload acoustics
• Operating shock of 250 Gs to withstand rugged notebook environment

Product Description

pSeagate 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./p

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect notebook upgrade, March 21, 2005

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chelsea_hotel_no_2 (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seagate 9W3277-556 100GB 2.5" Notebook Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I recently decided to upgrade my Dell Latitude C840 with some new ram (1 GB, I use VMWare), new batteries because the old ones would no longer hold a charge, and a new hard drive.

I had an IBM (Hitachi) travelstar 40GNX (IC25N040ATCS05-0), which was a fairly nice hard drive except the size (40 GB) was just not enough. However, now that I've had a chance to use my new Seagate drive for a while, I must say that I got much more then more space.

This new drive is of course much larger, which is wonderful, but what has surprised me is the SPEED and SILENCE. This drive is a 5400 rpm drive (I decided to go with a 5400 rpm instead of a 7200 for power and capacity reasons) which is the same speed as my hitachi, but it is notably faster. And even more surprisingly, I simply cannot hear this drive!

If you're looking for a new drive I highly recommend the Seagate ST9100823A, it is exceptionally fast for a 5400 rpm drive, whisper quiet, and of course 100 GB should give you plenty of room to play with.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars new drive for my Powerbook G4 12", May 10, 2005

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Patrick W. Deegan (PNW) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 9W3277-556 100GB 2.5" Notebook Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

This drive replaced the stock 40GB drive in my Apple Powerbook 12" (2003). The new Seagate drive is quieter, runs cooler, slightly faster and, obviously, is a lot bigger. The installation was pretty straight forward (with instructions from PB FixIt), and from start to finish took 45min (I used CCCloner to move my life from old drive to the new drive).

Conclusion: the new Seagate drive is a nice relatively inexpensive upgrade for my laptop. I like the fact that it's running cooler (runs at about 114F, whereas with the old drive it ran at 120F). The old drive is the new back-up, in a 2.5" enclosure.


*** update ***
after one year or serious use (changing climates and very serious traveling) this drive has performed flawlessly. as an added perk, i look at the new line of Mac laptops and see that only the highest end versions have drives this size; in any event, my daily use requirments have far exceeded the 40GB OEM that shipped , proving that while this is a great drive, it was also a necessary upgrade for me.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Failed after 7 weeks of heavy use..., July 29, 2005

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B. Robertson (Cordova, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 9W3277-556 100GB 2.5" Notebook Internal Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

My drive failed after 7 weeks of pretty heavy use. It sounded like the actuator arm was broken(heavy clicking with complete drive failure upon bootup). There had been no major shocks or injuries to the laptop that contained the drive and no other plausible explanation for the failure. I'm now on #2 and I hope that my first experience was just a fluke. However, I'm forced to give only 2 stars based on my 2 month experience with the drive so far.

I will say that other than the drive failure, the performance has been very good. There's some mild clicking that can be heard from the hard drive when in use, but its fairly mild when compared to other 2.5 internals.