Hardly not the main event of the year for studying hard drive market, has been the emergence of selling production models of products, which is applied perpendicular recording method. The list of companies that have submitted their own decisions, joined Seagate Technology, issued the drive family Momentus 5400.3. Lineup formed 12 drives with Ultra ATA/100 interface and SATA capacity of 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 and 160 GB equipped with 8 - Mbyte cache buffer. All the drives in this series are provided with a five-year guarantee, and a guaranteed number of inclusions-shutdown of 600 thousand cycles.

At the time of announcement of this family of products 160 - GB drive Seagate ST9160821AS drive is considered very large in its class, density data recording at the plate with a value of 131.5 Gbayt/dyuym2 determined. According to estimates from analysts with the company's share of notebook disc capacity of 80 GB and higher in the period from 2004 - the first in 2006, will more than five times. Timely and adequate price proposal will be the key factors that will enable business to build, while continuing to fund research. According to experts, the family of Momentus 5400.3 drives will find applications not only in their traditional sphere of portable equipment, but also in the corporate sector. In particular, they expected high demand in the market copiers and printers, blade servers and disk arrays used in industrial and embedded systems.

Thanks branded technologies and SoftSonic QuiteStep storage models can extend the time of autonomous work of the staffing laptop batteries, without the excessive noise at work. Our test drive ST9160821AS confirmed its high-speed quality. Among other things, we note a very high grade for its data transfer speed bus Burst mode and time of random access to data on the operations of reading records, as well as the level of implementation, and increase productivity in the mode of NCQ. In addition, the cost of one gigabyte capacity of the product Seagate one of the most attractive. Having assessed the potential of its products on the basis of testing, we gave hard drive company Seagate ST9160821AS "editorial differences" advises.