jaganath: Thank you for reply once again. I will order Scorpio than. Yes, my Momentus 5400.2 (100 GB) had a strange behavior. When idle (there was not reading/writing for sure), after several seconds, the LED was simply steadily turned on for a couple of seconds (maybe even up to 15), and finally wh...

Maybe I was not exact with this "calibration sound". I found, in one thread, something like that: "I'm not certain you would be entirely satisfied with the scorpio. It seems to do some seeks every second or two, similar to what people have said Hitachi do with their ABLE drives. I didn't investigate...

Hi! I am going to buy a 40 GB 5400 rpm 2.5 drive. I cannot decide between Samsung MP0402H and WD Scorpio WD400VE. I've heard that Scorpios have a "clicking problem". I've also heard that heads of WD recalibrate itself every second or so, and you can always hear that drive is "busy" (is HDD activity ...

Well, I wanted to upgrade my Acer TravelMate 803Lci so I bought a new hard drive. The product of choice was Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST9100824A 5400 rpm PATA drive. I’ve read many reviews of the disk family where that one belongs to and I thought it would be a very quiet notebook drive… Currently I’m...