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Seagate Momentus Hard Drive Recovery Review

February 14, 2008 By Jacqui Best Leave a Comment

The Seagate Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive recovery review.
At the end of January, Seagate started shipping the much talked about Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive. This drive is the newest in a line of laptop hard drives they have been developing. It uses a second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Which means instead of storing the data in conventional ‘longitudinal’ magnetic recording, in which the bits are directed circumferentially along the track direction, they are storing them perpendicular pointing up and down to the track.

What is good about this is the ability to get much higher storage as they can stack the data. On a laptop hard drive that means huge storage capacity never before seen. The 5400.4 is a 250 gig hard drive using SATA 300 and running at 5400 rpm. I did a lot of reading about this drive and really haven’t been able to find anything positive or negative about it. It is mass shipping to laptop manufacturers and I will update the status as soon as it is in the hands of the masses. Let us know if you have any questions about hard drive recovery by leaving a comment in this post.

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About Jacqui Best

I started my technology career way back in 1991, when I worked for a local computer store in Pinellas Square Mall. I was a PC technician as well as the trainer. Afterward I moved on to Consolidated Software Products where I was the phone technical support for Disk Analyst, which was for all practical purposes the first piece of data recovery software ever. I then moved on to The Learning Curve, where I was the office manager for many years, this company was at the forefront of data recovery and training software. I finally decided I wanted to move into some different fields and expand my technology back ground beyond data recovery. I got hired on with American CompuSystems where I was the Road Runner Pinellas County PC Installs manager, while in this department I obtained my MCP in NT 4.0. I later moved on to be an in field network administrator for this company. After ACS I then took a position with Knight Enterprises a sub contractor of Time Warner/ Bright House. I was the Regional PC Installs Manager. After 2 years at Knight I decided it was time to come back to my roots and took a job with DTIData as their Software Technical support person.

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