Seagate Momentus 500 GB 7200RPM Internal Notebook Hard Drive - Retail Kit ST905003N3A1AS-RK Review

I have an HP Pavilion dv7-1451-nr laptop so it had an extra drive bay inside, this drive freed up a lot of space and the file transfer was fast. I regularly check for bad sectors and corrupt data and have never had a problem with them. The only downside I noticed is that the heat on both drives in the laptop has increased exponentially, and of course heat is never good for electronics. Other than that it's a great product and the tiny portable table fan does a great job of keeping them warm.

I'm a computer repairer and these are the only non-SSD drives I'll be using. Recently I've noticed an unusually high failure rate when replacing WD drives. Seagate seems to have taken the crown recently. Another tip: The smaller the disk, the less densely packed your data is and the lower the failure rate. I can't get anyone to confirm this fact, but for the past five years in my business it seems true. If you don't store a lot of RAW images or video files, buy the smallest disc possible for…

I installed this hard drive in my 3 year old PS3 so I can store more games, movies, music and it worked great so if you want to do it with an old PS3 , go to YouTube and type PS3 upgrade and you will see a link to the video. Look first before you buy anything.

What do you need to know? Seagate is a great brand. The product is a bunch of fast storage that is relatively affordable in terms of gigabytes of storage. It's huge! And it fits a laptop! I used Seagate Drive Wizard (download from their website) to clone my 100GB hard drive to this 500GB hard drive before swapping it into my Lenovo X60 tablet. Worked great and recognized an external USB dock (Thermaltake BlacX (another great product)) for the clone. The drive is fast, quiet, reliable and huge…

This item arrived on time. Installation was easy. The drive was missing the 4 screws that lift the drive up in my MacBook to allow for airflow. No problem as it took about 30 seconds to transfer the screws from my old drive. Installation generally took about 15 minutes, after which I simply restored my system from a Time Machine backup. The drive works perfectly.