[ Thanks to Augustus for this link.
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“In January of this year, Seagate released the first consumer
hard drive to use a new magnetic recording technique known as
perpendicular recording. This drive came in the form of a 5400 RPM
notebook drive, the Momentus 5400.3. So what is perpendicular
recording and what can we expect out of these new hard drives?
We’ve got your answers here as well as a look at the full line of
Seagate’s Momentus line of notebook hard drives. Not only will we
be benchmarking these drives using their native IDE interface, but
we’ll also be placing these drives in an external USB enclosure to
test their performance as external hard drives. Does disk speed
really makes a difference when placing the drive in an external
enclosure? We’re going to find out…”