2.5" Drives On the Desktop

An anonymous reader points out an article on XYZ Computing exploring the use of a 2.5" notebook hard drive in a desktop computer. From the article: "The tradeoff for these qualities has always been limited capacities, high costs, and slow transfer rates, but a the recent progression in portable storage techology has changed the 2.5" drive greatly. We put the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB SATA notebook drive in our test system and took it for a spin."

Re:Nice but...

[Fred_A]

Good idea ?

Sortof...

Article summary :
You can put a laptop drive in a desktop machine. Even though it's slower, everything will still work.

Well, Duh.

Well everything also works on my laptop, thanks for the amazing insight on the intricacies of hardware. Basically, disks work. Even the slow ones. I'm glad to know that.

Excuse me while I'm going to put an array of compact flash microdrives in my fileservers.

exceptionally bad?

[freakmaster]

"Putting laptop drives in desktops is an exceptionally bad idea."
boy, that's pretty bad!
You don't leave much room in your vocabulary for people like Micheal Jackson & the guy who drove a rocket car into a mountain!

Re:So...

[Slashcrap]

I just upgraded my iMac G5 with a WD Raptor (10kRPM SATA). And my subjective benchmarks reveal an almost 4x increase in the speed of common tasks.

As a general rule, if a Mac user notices a subjective 4x increase in speed, that's probably equivalent to an objective 5% speed increase.

Re:Nostalgia for the Sounds of the Early Computer

[Chatsubo]

What about the loud bang when you hit the case with the side of your fist so that the hard disk will spin up?

Yes, I had one of those...

I still think that the dot-matrix noise did actually deafen me.

Re:Luggable

[i.r.id10t]

They still exist and make them - even name brand companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, and Alienware.

Ever seen what some folks will brign to a LAN party?

not a single....

[Anonymous Coward]

Not a single funny on an article with 2.5" right in the title?... you all should be ashamed of yourselves...

Are you a married man by any chance?

[jpellino]

Here's the deal, me hearty: He's going to get his "Yes" to saving the $8 a month, after which he'll be treated to the live version of the opening animation from the Jetsons...