Just got my drive. It is 7200.10, which supposedly has perpendicular recording. I ghosted my current Maxtor SATA drive and made this the new boot drive. I didn't notice any discernable improvement in speed, but this is only one reason for me switching. The other was I like to rotate different drives into my tortuous boot drive location occassionally. It is possible my performance is taking a hit because my virus software seems to be scanning a lot of files.
This drive does run pretty hot. According to Motherboard monitor, it runs about as hot as my other drives. However, when I was doing the cloning, this Seagate was sitting outside my case on its end. The top of the drive got pretty darn hot. I recommend some kind of active cooling.
Fortunately, I always have fans blowing over my drives, so it should run cool once inside the case.
One more plus is I was able to get my system down to two drives, instead of three, without loosing any of my disk space. This did take a few hours of making partitions and cloning partitions.
One final thing. It runs very quiet.
If the rebate comes, this is hot. A big plus, especially for many people, was the kit coming with both SATA data and power adapter cables.
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