Anyone is using the new Seagate Hybrid hard drives?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hdd/
I need to upgrade my 320GB 5400 RPM drive and I was going to go with a smaller storage 128 SSD. But these Hybrid drives look good and you can get 500 GB for about $120.
Any feedback? Do they work ok on a MacBook Pro?

Ok I just got a 3TB Drive from Fry's Electronics its the new seagate Go Flex. I took it out of its enclosure.. and put it inside the drobo.. Drobo Tells me Drive Failed. " only for the new 3tb drive." THAT ***!!!! I just paid $200 and it tells me drive failed... So i take it out and attach it to the original usb and it works fine direct to the computer.. My drobo is attached with firewire800 and 4 bays are with 1.5tb each. and the 5th one was going to be the new 3TB drive. HUmm.... Any ideas on how I can make this drive work with my drobo ??

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Where can I find the serial numbers of the defective Seagate 1T hard drives that were in iMacs?
I tried Seagate site.
Not the iMac serial #, I know about the recall program. We are looking at a refurbished (not Apple) iMac & it has a Seagate 1T HD, naturally, we want to know if it is one of the bad ones.
Thanks for your help.
Sorry for the large font, I have vision problems.

Apple icon on the menubar->About this Mac->more info->Hardware->Serial ATA. This is what's on mine:
ST31000528AS:
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model:          ST31000528AS
Revision:          AP2E
Serial Number:                      9VPFJ89K

Using the new 3tb Western Digital drives in a 2 gen drobo

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Ok I just got a 3TB Drive from Fry's Electronics its the new seagate Go Flex. I took it out of its enclosure.. and put it inside the drobo.. Drobo Tells me Drive Failed. " only for the new 3tb drive." THAT ***!!!! I just paid $200 and it tells me drive failed... So i take it out and attach it to the original usb and it works fine direct to the computer.. My drobo is attached with firewire800 and 4 bays are with 1.5tb each. and the 5th one was going to be the new 3TB drive. HUmm.... Any ideas on how I can make this drive work with my drobo ??

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or is it basically like copying your whole music folder over to an external hard drive and adding everything manually?

Yes, it works in my case
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

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It is your fault, pondini.. all your fault.
I read of all the things that go wrong restoring Time Machine backups.. particularly stupid things like mail, photo libraries don't go back.. etc. And looking through the incredible number of issues people have here, when their Mac finally takes a dive how hard it is to restore.
I restored a test hard disk from a TC.. and it takes ages and ages to even make up its mind to start.
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A product like clonezilla, Free linux boot cd.
http://lifehacker.com/5078397/clonezilla-backs-up-and-restores-your-disks
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