Seagate Momentus 320 GB 2 5-Inch SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache Internal NB Hard Drive Bare Drive ST9320423AS

Obtained this to replace a 120GB 5400RPM hard drive in a notebook which was causing the notebook (HP Pavilion DV6000 Series Notebook) to freeze when moved... Kinda freaky. In any case, I got the drive along with a Vantec NexStar TX 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure enclosure. Both arrived the next day. Took the new drive and installed it into the enclosure and then used the Acronis backup software's Media CD to use the clone option to move the data from the old drive in the notebook to the new one. Took about 30 mins. Notebook has Win7 Pro on it. Then removed both drives and swapped them. Note that the HP Notebook uses a special carrier for the drive, but had no problem carefully removing the old drive and inserting the new drive. Fit without any issues. Restarted the notebook which booted without any issues (faster), loaded the SATA drivers for the disk and then rebooted to finish the update. Notebook has not froze once since the move so that is a good indication that the hard drive was the problem I was having as it was easy to duplicate before. Drive is basically silent, no real noticible vibration. Runs a bit hotter than before but the location of the drive is open enough to cool it. Much faster than the previous which was only a 5400RPM drive. Will update as time goes by. But for now an inexpensive fix for a real problem and now have more space to boot. Read more

I used this HDD on my MacBook Pro instead of the original one. I expected it to be much faster as it's 7200RPM. But that's not the case. Speed is ok while accessing data files, but it still takes some time when launching "heavy" applications. My only problem now is trying to launch BootCamp on vmware Fusion (Win Vista on BootCamp runs great on its own). I still need to get that issue fixed! I didn't notice any noise from the drive as I read in some reviews, so I believe it's quite enough for whoever works in the night when there's silence surrounding him like I do. Great product and recommended for whoever is looking to expand his MBP's HDD. Read more

This hard drive runs like a stripped-ass-ape. I love this HD. First: I am not a gamer so those game player issues do not apply to me. Find a gamer review. And do not drop your computer... I want speed, size, and simplicity. I wanted to install my own, first hard drive failure I have gone through. I think I paid $70.00 for this, Amazon.com , and the trick was this: went into my Boot Manager ( F12 if my memory serves me ) and then 'advanced ' , to hard drive and I had two choices. So I picked " the other one" . Turns out it was that easy and I had nothing to lose by that time. Check you computer guides and look to their user forums. A real gold mine of info. Open the boot manager , look around, do nothing. Go out. Go in. First do no harm. It is a learning experience, it will take a little time, and you can save some real money. You can install your own. Mine has two screws. i took out the old one. Put it back in so as to feel for the ' click' of it. Then put in the new. I did keep the old one, even though I do not have 7 million bucks in bitcoin on it. This took some amount of research and blind stumbling in my run-up to the success, but I figure I can pay myself a couple hundred bucks by doing it myself. If I can do this you likely can too. You will fel so good when it works. Go for it ! Read more

I ended up buying 2 of these Seagate 750GB 7200rpm drives to replace the Western Digital 1TB 5200rpm Secondary Drive I had originally upgraded my Dell Studio 1747 XPS Laptop ( Western Digital 1 TB Scorpio Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 5200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD10TPVT ) due to the Later drives 12.5mm thickness, even through the 1tb drive worked flawlessly. So I decided to get the two Seagate 750GB 7200rpm drives (Which installed flawlessy since it was the laptop designed 9.5mm thickness) to compensate for taking out the 1tb drive (I could have gotten the Western Digital 750GB equivilent but the RPM speeds were only 5400rpm to the Seagates 7200rpm). Both drives fit perfectly into the laptop comparments and was recognized instantly by the Laptops BIOS. Other than that all I can say is both drives are working great (Along with it fitting in the laptop compartment great) and are a good way to expand the storage on your laptop (At least until the Hard Drives Manufactures can figure out how to make the 1tb and above hard drives that will have the 9.5mm thickness to fit in all Window based Laptops). I would recommend these hard drives for all Laptop upgrade needs who wish to increase thier storage with virtually no Headaches. Computer Specs: Dell Studio 1747 XPS (June 2010 Model) Windows 7 Ultimate SP1(64 Bit) Intel I7 Core 1.6ghz processor 8GB DDR3 10666mhz Ram 1gb NVidia 880 Video Card 750gb (Previously a 120gb)\750gb (Previously a 1tb, removed due to drive thickness issues) Sata Hard Drives BD-ROM/DVD-CD Burner 1920 X 1080 17inch Screen 1GB Broadcom Intergrated NIC Intel WiFi Wireless Card Creative Sound Blaster Card ASUS VH242H 23.6-Inch 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor (External) Read more