Seagate Momentus 500

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I base these conclusions on the easy fact that tests of information on the inside of the platter (which has considerably significantly less speed) are a lot more reliable (albeit slower). If you do select to get one particular of these, do by yourself a favor and backup (which you must do anyways, since all challenging drives are topic to fail at any time). In other words, you are not losing data, but the information coming off the drive is on the border of what is readable, such that the drive needs to rely on error correction and/or rereads (therefore the fluctuating speeds) to get the data off. . I am not going to state there is something wrong with these drives, since at the end of the day I am only one particular guy with a bad expertise. I have had two of these fail on me in a row, failing offline Wise tests. I will just supply my review right here so that individuals get a complete point of view. I think it is fair to state that Seagate is really operating these at the ragged edge of what is achievable. Whilst the transfer charges can method 90 Mb/s at the edge of the platter, according to a handful of speedy tests I ran, the transfer price fluctuates greatly, and the drive reveals a quite continual stream of software package-corrected (ECC) errors. When it was working, the drive was extremely swiftly and quiet, although, so I can definitely comprehend the higher marks folks give these drives when they perform

91(a 16. 59 (a 35. 94 MB 13″ (upgraded 7200rpm Hitachi): 42. . 5″ 2-platter 500gb drive that the ECC will be extremely nicely utilized over time. Running Xbench once again on the newly upgraded methods they each respectively scored: MBP 15″ (ST9500420AS): 51. This check took about 28hrs per 500gb drive. Remember these are arbitrary #s, not speeds, not throughoutput, and ought to only be judged against other Xbench #s. 5″ Seagate drives (each with firmware 0002SDM1) to upgrade two of my MacBooks, spec’d out as follows: MacBook Pro 15″: MB134LL/A 15. Fletcher “Fletch” (Salt Lake City) –

I bought two of these new 500gb 2. , Might possibly 25, 2009

By Irwin M. 98% improvement) MB 13″ (ST9500420AS): 48. MBP 15″ (stock 5400rpm Fujitsu): 37. I utilized Xbench (an additional wonderful utility) to get the following specs on my pre-upgraded techniques (cumulative score of the difficult drive battery of tests). four” 2. 5Ghz Intel T9300 Core 2 Duo Penryn (stock Fuji 250gb 5400rpm SATA) MacBook 13″: MB404LL/A 13. I will revise this evaluation ought to their be any notable observations on prolonged expression wear/reliability observed drive/situation temp battery usage, etc. 17 of 19 men and women found the following evaluation useful:

Purchased two, semi-substantial pre/post upgrade check final results appear excellent so far. 00 Using SuperDuper to picture the outdated drives to the new Seagates using a FIrewire drive caddy took approx 3-4hrs per drive (approx 250gb of data on each resource) leaving the Seagates as bootable clones with no partition resizing necessary. You can bet that on a drive as information-dense as these 2. Both drives are seemingly as quiet as the ones they replaced. 45% improvement – a minor surprising of an improvement offered that the outdated drive was also 7200rpm w/ 16MB cache and a hundred% fresh sectors). 4Ghz Intel 8300 Core 2 Duo (upgraded Hitachi 320gb 7200rpm Travelstar) I utilised GRC’s SpinRite (an *awesome* utility) to pre-test the drives ahead of set up. Both drives tested 100% with no terrible sectors and inside of spec on ECC error correction utilization. I ran a degree-4 check which look at, reads, and writes to each individual sector twice with out any OS or drive degree error correction. three” 2

Based on my limited encounter with this merchandise, it would seem to have a higher defect rate and poor guarantee service. 95 to have them ship me a new drive beneath warranty. Edited on ten/14/09 to add: The replacement drive has currently started to rattle and it occasionally makes a clunking sound like the first a single that I returned. I just spoke with Seagate guarantee division and they said that it would price me . The guarantee rep said that neither he nor his managers have the authority to waive this fee. It’ll cost me totally nothing to return it to the retailer as defective, so I will do that nowadays as a substitute. My drive began to make a loud “clunk” sound about a week immediately after I set up it.

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