The Drive
Momentus 7200.4 The Seagate® Momentus® 7200.4 drive delivers the highest available capacity and performance in a laptop hard drive and draw only .05 percent more power than a 5400-RPM laptop drive. 320 GB • 7200 RPM • 2.5-Inch Laptop
Key Advantages Highest available notebook performance 320-GB capacity Native Command Queuing Green features: Lowest-power 7200-RPM laptop hard drive yet Ramp load features improve idle power consumption State-of-the-art error correction Fluid dynamic bearing motor Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting Support for Read Multiple and Write Multiple commands Best-Fit Applications High-performance and mainstream laptop PCs Small form factor PCs Workstations Industrial applications Non-mission-critical blade servers
Momentus 7200.4 Specifications Specifications 320 GB1 Model Number ST9320423AS Interface SATA 3Gb/s Performance Cache (MB) 16 Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 Configuration/Organization Logical CHS 16,383/16/63 Bytes per Sector 512 Reliability/Data integrity Head-Rest Method QuietStep™ Ramp Load Load/Unload Cycles 600,000 Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 per 1014 bits read Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.5% Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours) 500,000 Limited Warranty (years) 3 Power Management Startup Current 5v (amps max) 1.0 Power Mgmt (watts) Seek Idle/Standby 1.554 0.67 Environmental Temperature (°C) Operating Nonoperating 0 to 60 –40 to 70 Shock (G) Operating: 2 ms Nonoperating: 1 ms 350 1000 Acoustics (bels—sound power) Idle Performance Seek 2.3 2.5 Physical Height (in/mm) .370/9.5 Width (in/mm) 2.75/69.85 Depth (in/mm) 3.515/100.35 Weight (lb/g) 0.238/110 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.

The Software Utilities... a $200 value

Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later  
Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you.

NovaStor NovaBACKUP® Solution for Windows®
NovaBACKUP has been helping millions of users recover from data loss and disasters for over 18 years. Feature rich, NovaBACKUP provides a powerful backup solution. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step backup and restore wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use. Requires Windows 2000 and later.!

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™
Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.

Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!