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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.com/Buys-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 http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Seagate-EE25-Hard-Drive-ST980818SM_W0QQitemZ350185312860QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item350185312860&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I am going to give it a try. The last WD one lasted 3 months, J*C!!! http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/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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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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Installed and running. It is not what I have in the toughbook though.
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