Seagate ships single-platter, 1.8-inch, 60GB hard drive

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Ryan @ Jan 8th 2007 6:30PM

hmm... here's an interesting consideration: I think most hard drives of the laptop variety and smaller are shipping with some form of the freefall - shock protection system that shuts down the drive if it senses a freefall. There are already quite a few HDD camcorders on the market.. what happens if you take one of these camcorders on a rollercoaster, or skydiving? Will you drop massive amounts of frames (or just not record video at all) because the hard drive thinks it's about to have an impact with the ground?

a related question: on those hard drive camcorders...can anyone tell me if they record direct to the hard drive...or is there a flash memory buffer that allows them to only spin up the hard drive when they need to dump the buffer, thus saving power?

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Bill Wilson @ Jan 9th 2007 9:27AM

Good question about the roller coaster Ryan!

Maybe they will have to incorporate an override switch.

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