Seagate rocks my world with another HDD

While SDD’s seem to be the new big thing in cutting-edge data storage, they still have yet to become a solid competitor to HDD’s (Hard Disk Drive) in the market in terms of price-to-storage space. While I usually favor the more cutting-edge technology, this 320GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive really restored my faith on them in several ways. Apart from an amazing price offered by Newegg.com as usual (only about 90 bucks!), the drive uses an interesting piece of technology that is revitalizing (if only briefly) the HDD market known as perpendicular recording. For those with an interest in computer hardware, click the link. Otherwise, its basically a newfound way to cram data ever-so-tighter onto the disk space and in an even more efficient manner.

As for my personal opinion about it, I have been using it for about 6 months, and I must say it has far surpassed my expectations. Quiet as a mouse, runs much cooler than I imagined, and with a reliability comparable to the old family dog (based on my past experiences with hard drives from the same series for about 10 years), it was one of the most amazing purchases I have made off that site.

NOTE: the exact deal I got on the drive is not availible anymore, but the same drive can be found here.