Benchmarking Momentus XT on a MBP with results...

[duffer6]

Below is a link to a simple and free benchmarking program called Xbench. If you are so inclined can you install it and post the results of the "Disk Test," section. I am curious your results. My results seem painfully slow and I am not sure if it is just my machine or a wide spread problem.

http://www.xbench.com/

My results:


Disk Test 39.33
Sequential 132.69
Uncached Write 165.24 101.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 160.61 90.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 81.86 23.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 176.95 88.93 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 23.09
Uncached Write 6.47 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 282.33 90.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 110.06 0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 168.11 31.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[alust2013]

Sounds about right. That's about what I'm getting on my WD scorpio black, which should be about the same.

 

[duffer6]

Sounds about right. That's about what I'm getting on my WD scorpio black, which should be about the same.

Thanks Alust:

I was concerned with all the SATA III issues with the 2011 MBP that maybe I had an issue. I know the Momentus XT is SATA II but was somewhat surprised by the low throughput numbers. Guess the 4g of flash has no benefit on the XT under a benchmarking test.

 

[alust2013]

Thanks Alust:

I was concerned with all the SATA III issues with the 2011 MBP that maybe I had an issue. I know the Momentus XT is SATA II but was somewhat surprised by the low throughput numbers. Guess the 4g of flash has no benefit on the XT under a benchmarking test.

Right, that test will only yield results of the 7200 RPM part of the drive.