Photo: Seagate's mighty Momentus drive

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    Seagate Momentus

    Seagate Technology's new Momentus 5400.3 hard drive, designed for notebooks, uses perpendicular recording technology to squeeze more storage on a 2.5-inch disc. Capacity jumps to 160GB, good enough to hold 40,000 songs or almost 3 hours of high-definition video.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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The perpendicular recording technique in this 2.5-inch drive means a notebook could pack 160GB of storage.

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Seagate Momentus

Seagate Technology's new Momentus 5400.3 hard drive, designed for notebooks, uses perpendicular recording technology to squeeze more storage on a 2.5-inch disc. Capacity jumps to 160GB, good enough to hold 40,000 songs or almost 3 hours of high-definition video.

Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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