I really like the look of the metal or aluminum they used, reminds me of drives that are a lot older especially the picture you took of it with the PCB off, looks quite nice! Really like the nice blue PCB this drive has, looks good with the combination of the casting around it. Might have to pick one up someday, even if people don't generally recommend Seagate's laptop drives, I really do like how this one looks.
These are not as rare as the ST1000LM033s, which is super paradoxical. 5 mm drives weren't exactly a common drive, compared to 1 TB 7 mm drives, which all four manufacturers, excluding Samsung which was already dead, tried their hand in. And yet ST500LT032s are somewhat easy to find, whereas the ST1000LM033s are super elusive. Also interesting how it uses a traditional full surface PCB; being a minified drive I would've expected a compact C-shape one, as used by the WDC BigBear and Charger.
I really like the look of the metal or aluminum they used, reminds me of drives that are a lot older especially the picture you took of it with the PCB off, looks quite nice! Really like the nice blue PCB this drive has, looks good with the combination of the casting around it. Might have to pick one up someday, even if people don't generally recommend Seagate's laptop drives, I really do like how this one looks.
These are not as rare as the ST1000LM033s, which is super paradoxical. 5 mm drives weren't exactly a common drive, compared to 1 TB 7 mm drives, which all four manufacturers, excluding Samsung which was already dead, tried their hand in. And yet ST500LT032s are somewhat easy to find, whereas the ST1000LM033s are super elusive.
Also interesting how it uses a traditional full surface PCB; being a minified drive I would've expected a compact C-shape one, as used by the WDC BigBear and Charger.
i love that spin up.
Quite odd how many Seagate 2.5"s sound like miniature 3.5"s. On all other manufacturers the 2.5" spinups could not sound more different.
Same!
@@TheDragonFire123 seagate most likely uses the same motor drivers for their 2.5 inch drives that they use for the 3.5 inch ones too