Seagate USB 2.0 5GB Pocket Hard Drive

Seagate USB 2.0 5GB Pocket Hard Drive
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Product Age Jan, 2010

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2952 reviews

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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB review

  by (expertreviews.co.uk) - Sep, 2010

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The Seagate Momentus XT is a rather unusual 2.5in SATA laptop hard disk. As well as having a 7,200rpm spindle speed and a SATA II connection, it also has 4GB of SLC flash memory. Seagate claims that this boosts performance to near-SSD levels but at a...

The Momentus XT works surprisingly well, but its performance benefits will only apply in certain circumstances and it's expensive too.

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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB review

  by Adam Oxford (techradar.com) - Aug, 2010

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Seagate's magniloquently monikered Momentous XT has finally arrived in the TechRadar lab, resurrecting a concept we'd long dismissed as vapourware. It's the first hybrid drive we've seen for years: a statement which will make younger readers ask,...

Value for money ; Almost deskto drive erformance

No write acceleration ; Power use same as traditional drive

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Seagate Freeagent Desk 1.5TB review

  by (expertreviews.co.uk) - Jun, 2010

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The design of Seagate's desktop USB2 hard disks hasn't changed much in the past few years, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The grey and white, slender, tapered appearance of the 1.5GB Freeagent Desk makes it an attractive addition to almost any...

Good-looking, relatively speedy and with decent backup software, this is a good-value 1.5TB disk.

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Seagate Momentus XT review

  by Melissa J Perenson, (pcadvisor.co.uk) - Jun, 2010

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The Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive adds flash storage to increase speed significantly over a standard hard drive; but it can't quite match an SSD.

For now, the Seagate Momentus XT is a lone duckling in a sea of options. But now that the drive has proven itself, it will be interesting to see if other drive makers decide to go the route of hybrid technology. If sheer performance is what you want,...

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Seagate Momentus XT (500GB)

  by Dong Ngo (zdnet.co.uk) - May, 2010

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The hybrid Momentus XT is an excellent replacement for traditional notebook hard drives, offering large capacities and SSD-like performance at a fraction of the cost.

Excellent performance at a significantly lower price than solid-state drives (SSDs) ; Larger capacity than SSDs ; Generous five-year warranty

More expensive than traditional hard drives ; Capacity currently tops out at 500GB ; Doesn't support the new 6Gbps SATA 3.0 standard

In the throughput test, where we copy a large amount of data from one place to another from within the test computer's main hard drive, the Momentus XT did very well, registering 39.91MB/s, even faster than the 30.25MB/s of the Intel X-25M SSD.

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Seagate FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB review

  by (expertreviews.co.uk) - Dec, 2008

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This FireWire-equipped version of Seagate's FreeAgent Desk external hard disk is aimed at Mac users, so it comes formatted with the HFS+ file system.

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Seagate 100GB USB 2.0 Portable hard drive

  by Lars-Göran Nilsson (trustedreviews.com) - Apr, 2005

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It's another external hard disk from Seagate, this time with an impressive 100GB capacity.

The 100GB USB 2.0 portable hard drive from Seagate definitely isn't as cost effective as a 3.5in external unit, but it is smaller, lighter and still large enough to store masses of data.

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Seagate FreeAgent Desk External Hard Drive

  by (gadgetheaven.co.uk) - May, 2012

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The Seagate FreeAgent Desk is an external hard drive that is not only powerful, but that also safeguards all the users' data and files. Manufactured by the Seagate Company, this drive has some fantastic features that most people will fall in love with....

The drive is available in a stylish metallic colour, and in 500 GB, 640 GB, 1 TB, as well as 2 TB. With these huge abilities, you can perform a lot of work using this drive.

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Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB

  by Vincent Lheur (digitalversus.com) - Aug, 2010

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Excellent performance for a 2.5'' drive ; Excellent performance overall when repeatedly using the same small files

4 GB isn't much for the SSD part ; Performance improvement limited to two or three pieces of software

It can't match the best pure SSD drives, but the Momentus XT is a great alternative to traditional hard drives and is the new leader in our table of 2.5'' drives.

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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB

  by Jayesh Limaye (techtree.com) - Aug, 2010

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Bridges the gap between SSD and traditional hard drives

Very fast performance, Adaptive Memory technology

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Unimpressed

  by Rhod (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Exactly as described

  by Adamski (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Seagate 2.5 500gb Internal Hard Drive for Laptop

  by Happy (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Excellent service - fast, rapid and efficient service. The Hard Disk is exactly as described and extremely easy to set up,configure and use.

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Get one

  by crush123 (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Does it work with Mac? Yep!

  by M. R. Greenhead "martingreenhead" (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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If you have read other reviews will know the picture (at time of writing) is wrong and the unit is in fact a slinky piece of black plastic.

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hard disk

  by dirtydoug (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Easy to install - but make sure you have the correct screw driver!

  by Maria (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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A world of difference!

  by Charlie B (amazon.co.uk) - May, 2012

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Make these standard issue for laptops....NOW!

  by Paranomia (amazon.co.uk) - Apr, 2012

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Breathes life back into a Macbook pro core 2 duo

  by Dr_Jezz "DR_Jezz" (amazon.co.uk) - Apr, 2012

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Dimensions & Weight

Depth10.1cm/10cm/12.6cm/13.7cm/13cm/14.4cm/14.7cm/15.2cm/16.2cm/16cm/17.2cm/2.5cm/21.9cm/3.64cm/3.6cm/4cm/7.3cm
Height1.3cm/1.5cm/1.9cm/12.7cm/16.6cm/17.5cm/18.5cm/19.1cm/19cm/2.11cm/2.1cm/2.54cm/2.5cm/2.61cm/2.6cm/2cm/4.4cm/5mm/9.5mm
Weight0.1kg/0.3kg/0.4kg/0.53kg/0.54kg/0.58kg/0.5kg/0.63kg/0.64kg/0.66kg/0.68kg/0.69kg/0.6kg/0.72kg/0.73kg/0.7kg/0.92kg/0.9kg/1.15kg/1.17kg/1.39kg/100g/102g/105g/110g/115g/14g/160g/180g/18g/19g/1kg/219g/292g/356g/365g/380g/382g/415g/63g/93g/94g/96g/98g/99g
Width10.1cm/10.2cm/15.4cm/3.4cm/3.6cm/3.8cm/3cm/4.28cm/4.3cm/4cm/5.4cm/7.3cm/7cm/8.91cm/8.9cm/8cm/9.4cm

Environmental Standards

ENERGY STAR Qualified Yes
EPA Energy Star Compliant Yes

External Hard Drive

Power SourceFireWire bus / USB bus/Included AC adapter/USB bus

Header

CompatibilityMac/Mac / PC/Mac / PC / Unix/PC
Country KitsAfrica / Europe / Middle East/EMEA/Europe/N/a/North America/United States
LocalizationN/a
ManufacturerFujitsu Technology Solutions/Seagate/Western Digital
Model21/7200.10/7200.12/Desk/Desk for Mac/Desktop/ES.2/Go/Portable External Hard Drive/Pro/ST31000340SV/ST31000525SV/ST3250310SV/ST3250311SV/ST3320410SV/ST3500320SV/ST3500410SV/ST3750330SV/ST612712DE/ST625211CF/ST640211CF/ST640211FX/ST64022CF/ST650211CF/ST66022CF/ST68022CF/ST9100823A/ST9100824A/ST9100824AS/ST9100828A/ST9100828AB/ST9100828AS/ST9100828SB/ST9120315AS/ST9120817AS/ST9120821A/ST9120821AS/ST91208220AS/ST9120822A/ST9120822AB/ST9120822AS/ST9120822SB/ST9120823AS/ST9120827AS/ST9160312AS/ST9160314AS/ST9160411AS/ST9160412AS/ST9160821A/ST9160821AS/ST91608220AS/ST9160823AS/ST9160823ASG/ST9160824AS/ST9160827AS/ST9200420AS/ST9200420ASG/ST9200827AS/ST9250315AS/ST9250315ASG/ST9250410AS/ST9250410ASG/ST9250421AS/ST9250421ASG/ST9250827AS/ST9308110A/ST9320320AS/ST9320322AS/ST9320325AS/ST9320421AS/ST9320423AS/ST9320423ASG/ST9402116SB/ST9408114A/ST940814AS/ST940815A/ST94813A/ST94813AS/ST9500420AS/ST9500420ASG/ST96023A/ST960813AS/ST960815A/ST960815AB/ST960815SB/ST960822A/ST96812A/ST96812AS/ST980310AS/ST980811AS/ST980813AS/
Packaged Quantity1/25
Product LineFreeAgent/Maxtor DiamondMax/My Book Essential Edition 2.0/My Book Home Edition/My Book Mac Edition/My Book Office Edition/My Book Studio Edition/My Passport Studio/Seagate/Seagate Barracuda/Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE.2/Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE.3/Seagate Momentus 5400 PSD/Seagate Momentus 5400.2/Seagate Momentus 5400.3/Seagate Momentus 5400.3 Blade Server/Seagate Momentus 5400.4/Seagate Momentus 5400.5/Seagate Momentus 5400.6/Seagate Momentus 7200.1/Seagate Momentus 7200.2/Seagate Momentus 7200.3/Seagate Momentus 7200.4/Seagate ST1 Series/Seagate ST1.2 Series/Seagate ST1.3 Series/Seagate SV35.3 Series/Seagate SV35.4 Series/Seagate SV35.5 Series/Seagate USB2.0 Pocket Hard Drive/WD AV-GP/WD Caviar/WD Caviar Black/WD Caviar Blue/WD Caviar Green/WD Dual-Option Backup External Hard Drive/WD Passport/WD RE2/WD RE2-GP/WD RE3/WD Scorpio Black/WD VelociRaptor

Miscellaneous

Microsoft CertificationCompatible with Windows 7/Works with Windows Vista
Product Type (CF)Storage media
Vista CertificationWorks with Windows Vista

Service & Support

Type1 year warranty /2 years warranty /3 years warranty /5 years warranty

Storage

TypeHard drive/Hybrid hard drive

Storage Controller

Interface TypeHi-Speed USB
Type None

Storage Controller (2nd)

Type None

Storage Hard Drive

Average Seek Time10.5ms/10ms/11ms/12.5ms/12ms/13ms/14ms/16ms/20ms/2ms/4.2ms/8.5ms/8.7ms/8.9ms
Buffer Size16MB/2MB/32MB/8MB
Capacity1.5TB/100GB/120GB/12GB/160GB/1TB/2.5GB/200GB/250GB/2TB/300GB/30GB/320GB/400GB/40GB/4GB/500GB/5GB/60GB/640GB/6GB/74GB/750GB/80GB/8GB
Data Transfer Rate100MBps/150MBps/300MBps/33MBps
Form Factor1"/2.5"/2.5" x 1/8H/2.5" x 1/8H / 2.5 x 1/8H/3.5"/3.5" x 1/3H/3.5" x 1/3H / 3.5 x 1/3H/3.5" x 1/4H / 3.5 x 1/4H
Form Factor (metric)2.5 cm/6.4 cm/6.4 cm x 1/8H/8.9 cm/8.9 cm x 1/3H/8.9 cm x 1/4H
Form Factor (Short)1"/2.5"/3.5"
Form Factor (Short) (metric)2.5 cm/6.4 cm/8.9 cm
Hard Drive TypeExternal hard drive/Internal hard drive/Removable hard drive
InterfaceATA-100/CompactFlash/eSATA-300 / Hi-Speed USB/eSATA-300 / Hi-Speed USB / IEEE 1394 (FireWire)/eSATA-300 / Hi-Speed USB / IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire)/Hi-Speed USB/Hi-Speed USB / IEEE 1394 (FireWire)/Hi-Speed USB / IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire)/IDE/Serial ATA-150/Serial ATA-300/Serial Attached SCSI
Interface TypeATA-100/CompactFlash/Hi-Speed USB/Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300/IDE/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300/IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300/Serial ATA-150/Serial ATA-300
Spindle Speed10000rpm/3600rpm/5400rpm/7200rpm

Storage Media

Media SubcategoryTape cartridges
Tape CartridgeDAT-72

Storage Removable

Compressed Capacity72GB/8GB
Media Included Qty1
Native Capacity36GB/4GB
Tape Length170m
TypeDAT/Travan

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