Seagate Momentus 5400.4 Hard Drive
Notebook Reviews > Laptop Parts > Momentus 5400.4

Review Date: 26 Oct' 2007

September, this year, Seagate announced another milestone for the Momentus 5400 hard drive series. Adding another 90GB to the previous maximum of 160GB in Seagate's 5400.3 Momentus series, the Momentus 5400.4, with a storage capacity of 250 gigabytes, dwarfs most other hard drives available in the market for mainstream notebook PC's.

Like Momentus 5400.3, its predecessor, the newer Momentus 5400.4 exploits the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology. As opposed to longitudinal recording, the perpendicular one offers greater storage density over the same media. In search for gigantic drives to entice the storage-hungry masses, that's something notebook manufacturers will greatly welcome.

Seagate Momentus 5400.4 runs at a not-so-shocking 5400RPM, however it has a Serial ATA 3.0 gigabyte/second interface. Again, it's not the speed but capacity that this hard drive boasts of.

Other features that this hard drive boasts of are shock resistant design, lower power consumption and silent operation. Once incorporated by notebook manufacturers in their systems, it would be exciting to see this hard drive in action.