Today, we were sent a parcel from Seagate with their new Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500 GB hard drive for reviewing purpose. After unpacking the hard drive, it was evident that the product was very lightweight and compact. Seagate says, the best part of the hard drive is the areal density of 394 Gbytes per square inch – the highest ever for a notebook hard drive – with a data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes/second, the fastest available for a 5400-rpm notebook drive (as claimed). Also it is shock proof (G-Force protection) and has a 8mb cache to help it become faster. Anyway, let us see how did it look and faired in our tests.

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