I purchased the M in March , but my drive crashed, so I need a new one. If the Momentus XT won't work, does anyone know of any drive that would get me close to everything on my wishlist? Go to Solution. Nearline SATA drives won't even fit, much less work - so that recommendation is faulty.
They're designed for blade type servers - not notebooks. View solution in original post. Thanks ejn I'll go ahead and purchase the Momentus XT. By the way, I had a feeling the rep was wrong about the Nearline. A server drive in a notebook just didn't make sense to me. Anyhow, thanks again for your help. Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for. Search instead for. To test this configuration we turned to our trusty Lenovo ThinkPad W and used its dual 2. To see peak performance through the caching mechanism we looped the benchmark four or five times in succession before the speeds leveled off. This method is consistent with our real-world benchmarks that we discuss later on. The hybrid drives were still a ways off from fully competing with the modern SSDs also tested in this system, but they performed admirably when you consider they offer 1.
The performance benchmarks outlined in this review can be categorized into two sections. Normally most drives interact with both sets of benchmarks in the same manner, but the Seagate Momentus XT is different. In our IOMeter and CrystalDiskMark tests you will only see raw performance, which normally might translate into real world scenarios.
Switching to an even smaller random transfer test our next IOMeter benchmark measures the random 4K read and write speeds of each drive. The closest drive managed just 0. With an incredibly strong lead in random 4K write speed, the GB Momentus XT had no trouble nearly halving the average write latency compared to its competition. Its peak latency scored towards the bottom of the chart with Our next set of synthetic benchmarks look at the inner and outer edge performance of the GB Seagate Momentus XT, with the outer edge being fastest and the inner edge being slowest.
This is a good example of best and worst case performance, since depending on where the data sits on the rotational media it could be in an advantageous or unfavorable position depending on file system or partition layout.
This gets closer to what you might see in the real world, although the data is still far from what you would see in practice. The Momentus Xt GB showed very promising results across the board, in some cases having almost triple the speed of the comparables.
If you are new to StorageReview, one thing we try to focus on is how any given drive might perform under real-world conditions. For the average user, trying to translate random 4K write speeds into an everyday situation is pretty difficult. For this reason we turned to our 4K-optimized StorageMark traces, which include HTPC and Gaming to help readers find out how a drive might rank under their conditions.
In this trace we recorded 2,MB being written to the drive and 1,MB being read. Our next real-life test covers disk activity in a gaming environment.
Unlike the HTPC trace, this one relies heavily on the read performance of a drive. The trace captures the heavy read activity of each game loading from the start, as well as textures as the game progresses. In this trace we recorded MB being written to the drive and 7,MB being read.
When comparing drives used in a mobile platform one of the biggest selling points is low power consumption. With chipsets becoming more and more efficient, key sources of power draw get narrowed down to either the bright screen or the storage device used. In the next test we record the average power consumed over a small range of synthetic benchmarks.
For reference, Seagate lists an average idle power rate of 1. The Seagate provided power values came in spot-on in our tests, with our actual idle rate measuring just 1.
This value was seen right after the drive parked its head. Active power values ranged from 3. Startup power requirements neared almost 1A, measuring 4. Seagate offers the same 5-year warranty on the Momentus XT GB as they do on all their other spindle hard drives. This compares to an average of 3 years on most consumer SSDs with a handful offering 5 year warranties. SLC has a useful life of around , write cycles with MLC reaching its limit at , write cycles.
It gets even better for the generation two XT when you look at some of the synthetic tests like the IOMeter server profiles. While most of the performance stats show a nice improvement, power was one area where the newer model did start to tip the scales compared to the previous generation mode.
That said, the drives overall did very well in RAID0, giving desktop users and some notebook users 1. The big question buyers will need to consider is price per GB. For those craving performance and capacity though, the price may not matter.
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