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marinettejoe
#1 Posted : Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:18:13 PM(UTC)
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I am seeing the new "made for auto and Marine" Seagate extreme edition harddrives come down to 99 for a 40 gig and 120 for a 60 gig drive on ebay. Buying one today for my wife's laptop.

Seagate --- "EE25 Hard Drive is designed to work in extreme temperatures and tolerate high levels of vibration and shock (-30C to 85C) . If you need the highest level of reliability in extreme environments, this hard drive is perfect for your application."

http://stores.shop.ebay....uys-Internet-Superstore

Features
Storage Capacity 60GB
Manufacturer Seagate Technology
Rotational Speed 5400 rpm
Manufacturer Part Number ST960818SM
Form Factor 2.5" Internal
Interfaces/Ports 7-pin Serial ATA
Dimensions 0.37" Height x 2.75" Width x 3.95" Depth
Manufacturer Website Address seagate
Weight 0.22 lb
Product Name EE25 Hard Drive
Product Type Hard Drive


Tech Specs
Storage Capacity 60GB
Manufacturer Seagate Technology
Rotational Speed 5400 rpm
Manufacturer Part Number ST960818SM
Form Factor 2.5" Internal
Dimensions 0.37" Height x 2.75" Width x 3.95" Depth
Manufacturer Website Address seagate
Interfaces/Ports 7-pin Serial ATA
Brand Name Seagate
Buffer 8MB
Weight 0.22 lb
Product Series EE25
Product Model ST960818SM
Product Name EE25 Hard Drive
Platform Support PC
Product Type Hard Drive

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:33:14 PM(UTC)
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Generally MS-windows and most unixes/linuxes really thrashs solid state disks (write cycles) with paging and logs. See the wiki on SSDs. Samsung and Intel seems to be the best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

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#3 Posted : Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:13:10 PM(UTC)
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Hopefully, the wife's laptop uses SATA drives. If it's more than ~3 years, maybe not...

The only thing missing, and really important, in those specs - The G-Force rating. My guess is it's absent, since it probably isn't much better than the standard drives.

Seems like a high price, for such a (relatively) small drive. I'd do a little more research, first.

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#4 Posted : Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:36:33 AM(UTC)
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My Asus notebook has 32 G of solid state drive for data, plus another 8 G used for applications and the like. The whole notebook was around $450. The solid state drives are really nice, and big enough to hold photo downloads off the phone, dozens of manuals, and other needed stuff. And, it is all pretty rugged, although not waterproof.


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#5 Posted : Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:17:23 AM(UTC)
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Be careful with Seagate. I bought one of their 500 gb external drives - it was the one with the pretty flashing yellow activation window. It failed within one year. It appears they put the drive in a plastic case to make it look neat and keep price down. Problem is the heat builds up in the drive.

When I tried to make a warranty claim, Seagate would not give me permission to open the shell to try to retrieve the data on the drive. I suspected it was the interface module that had gone bad. Seagate made me get a letter of qualifications for data recovery from the drive from my computer support company. Then, they denied permission to open the drive anyway. The catch? They know people value the data on the drive more than the price of the drive, so they will open the case which voids the warranty. So, Seagate has manufactured a junk drive and found a scheme to avoid the warranty costs associated with their design defect.

I think this is just typical of a company in financial trouble. Eventually, I talked to a customer service representative higher in the command chain and did get permission to open the drive. I think one of the reasons he authorized the data recovery was because he was losing his job the next week.

I had always used Seagate for years. But, now, it appears they are in trouble.

Paul
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#6 Posted : Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:07:07 AM(UTC)
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My expirences with Seagate "consumer" products would lead me to wait for some other vendor to hit my price point. Although the largest hard drive manufacturer Seagate, hardly has quality as a primary goal whenever they go after large volume sales.
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#7 Posted : Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:51:20 PM(UTC)
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I am going to give it a try. The last WD one lasted 3 months, J*C!!!

http://www.seagate.com/w...lectronics/ee25_series/

I am leery of (the MLC) SSD except the Samsung (64GB) $449 and Intel ones which are SLC. Not prepared to pay that much.

There is a G difference in the ratings from other drives and Seagate does publish it.
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#8 Posted : Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:43:21 PM(UTC)
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Wow!
Western Digital usually has had a better track record but no company is perfect.
My problems with Seagate were back in the stiksion era and went on for over a year and multiple purchases. They would loose data but then pass any test you could throw at them. Then a month latter they would loose all their data again. I swore I would never buy another seagate consumer HDD. Have used many of their SCSI drives with no problems.

Could never figure why they would cover a hot running HDD in rubber padding.
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#9 Posted : Sunday, April 19, 2009 3:31:56 PM(UTC)
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Installed and running. It is not what I have in the toughbook though.
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