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Hitachi OEM higher Xbench than Momentus XT?

oplix

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I recently had my computer serviced and they replaced my seagate drive with a Hitachi. I ran Xbench and it got a 49. 5400rpm drive.

I've ran Xbench on my seagate Momentus XT 7200rpm drive and used to only get 37.

Why is the hitachi which is a slower drive getting higher scores?
 
The XT doesn't do good in benchmarks. It's because it learns from the users' actions and caches the most accessed files. When it's benched it's just a regular 7200 RPM Seagate drive. It's still a very fast drive.
 
Intell said:
The XT doesn't do good in benchmarks. It's because it learns from the users' actions and caches the most accessed files. When it's benched it's just a regular 7200 RPM Seagate drive. It's still a very fast drive.
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Ok but that doesn't explain how a 5400rpm hard drive beats a 7200rpm hard drive.
 
oplix said:
Ok but that doesn't explain how a 5400rpm hard drive beats a 7200rpm hard drive.
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Was the XT brand new? I'm not sure but don't brand new drives double check their data for the first few hours or startups? If so that's what the XT could have been doing.
 
AlphaDogg said:
Amount of cache.

Edit: Oops, just realized that the 4gb in the Momentus XT is the cache.
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It's not a write cache, and this read cache is populated by an unknown algorithm.

It also has a normal cache.
 
Hitachi: SATA1, 5400RPM, 8/16MB Cache
Momentus XT: SATA2, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache, 4GB NAND

Hitachi Xbench: 49
Momentus XT Xbench: 37

Even if the Momentus didn't have the hybrid 4GB of NAND it should still outperform the Hitachi no?
 
oplix said:
Even if the Momentus didn't have the hybrid 4GB of NAND it should still outperform the Hitachi no?
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Yes, the Seagate should (and is) still be faster then the Hitachi. The test results could be skewed and XBench is quite old. It isn't very good with newer drives.
 
Philflow said:
Agreed. It's a weird result.

Are you running the latest firmware on the XT? (HD23)
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noob question and sorry to hijack thread..

how do you check the firmware on your drive? (i just installed an XT two days ago and would like to check up on that..thanks!)
 
oplix said:
I recently had my computer serviced and they replaced my seagate drive with a Hitachi. I ran Xbench and it got a 49. 5400rpm drive.

I've ran Xbench on my seagate Momentus XT 7200rpm drive and used to only get 37.

Why is the hitachi which is a slower drive getting higher scores?
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Yes I have same problem only I replaced my OEM with the Seagate to get more speed :mad:

My friend installed a Seagate Momentus (without the XT hence no SSD) it has 16MB cache versus the XT's 32MB cache etc etc and his is the fastest.

Who can recommend a better tool to test the speed with?
 
dawsonj said:
Yes I have same problem only I replaced my OEM with the Seagate to get more speed :mad:

My friend installed a Seagate Momentus (without the XT hence no SSD) it has 16MB cache versus the XT's 32MB cache etc etc and his is the fastest.

Who can recommend a better tool to test the speed with?
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Stop worrying about it and just use the drive...
 
I am getting the same awful results with XBench for this drive. The 5400 drive that came with my new MBP was registering much faster.

Is there another tool to test it out?
 
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