As someone now converted to the ranks of the laptop oriented, I am so pleased to hear about 2.5" form factor hard drives getting bigger capacities. When you try to move off of that desktop system and into the land of the notebook, one of the first things that you miss is loads of hard drive space. It's not great that one often has to make do with 60GB, 30GB or even 20GB in affordable notebooks, and with operating systems no doubt getting bigger, and broadband speeds getting faster, the laptop user is often reaching out for more space.
That's why it's so great to come across the Seagate 120GB Momentus 5400.2 PATA HDD review at Adrian's Rojak Pot. Now, thanks to STMicroelectronics' Smooth Drive technology, we are seeing laptop hard drives of over 100GB. I was so pleased to hear that this exciting new level of storage capacity is available without a performance hit, thanks to the hard drive coming with a massive 8MB SDRAM buffer. The disk also comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
However, these larger capacities in 2.5" form factor hard drives seem to be worrying Hollywood, who don't like the sound of large storage capacities being so portable. Stuff 'em, I say!