Either way, posting this on your blog site is a good way to do a feasability study!

Sounds pretty awesome. It's one of those I can't believe they didn't already think of that kind of things.

I'd imagine it has less vibrations as well, less mass means less inertia which means less force at the same speed which means less vibrations.

I wonder what the life is like...

Thanks for your input. Maybe my laptop is rubber isolated as well? I'm not sure, haven't looked. Yeah, that Samsung model only goes up to 80GB unfortunately. The Seagate 5400.2 sounds pretty good, but as it says uses more power than most laptop drives, which isn't good for laptops. Since you're only...

Hey, I've had a fair search for this stuff and couldn't come up with some good recent info :D ... there hasn't been a good comparison for a while. The following 2.5" 100GB 5200rpm 8MB laptop/notebook drives are all about the same price (AU$155 - AU$180). Hitachi (unknown model no) Samsung HM100JC We...