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MOMENTUS 500 7200 Hard Drive Issues...

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stevieapollo

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Apr 26, 2008
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so i bought a seagate M 500 7200 for my umbp and cloned yhe drive and installed it myself. everything seems to be working fine but i noticed that it take a long time for the computer to boot up. longer then it did with the stock drive. I believe somethin is wrong because this drive should allow the computer to boot up faster rather then slower:mad: any thought???


thanx

*apollo*
 
stevieapollo said:
so i bought a seagate M 500 7200 for my umbp and cloned yhe drive and installed it myself. everything seems to be working fine but i noticed that it take a long time for the computer to boot up. longer then it did with the stock drive. I believe somethin is wrong because this drive should allow the computer to boot up faster rather then slower:mad: any thought???


thanx

*apollo*
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I have this drive and used SuperDuper to clone. No problem with long boot here. Not faster either. About the same.
 
Did you fix permissions? Also I'd run a defragmentation on it (optimizing the metadata).
 
alphaod said:
Did you fix permissions? Also I'd run a defragmentation on it (optimizing the metadata).
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how do you fix permissions? where can i run the defrag? i know that when i went to clone the drive i had to do something weird like name a drive almost within my drive before the cloning soft would let me click on the drive in my external inclosure.... this was my first time ever cloning a drive.
 
I had the same problem, only had my drive for 6 months and it failed on me. lost everything had to put my original drive back in. Think I will buy a western Digital next time there are some 1TB versions out pretty soon
 
windels said:
may I ask , how is your battery life? does the 2 X 7200 rpm hurt it a lot?
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The battery has had 440 charges (94-100% health + 4900 mah) and holds up quite well, clocking in at over 3 hours, with full brightness and wireless turned on. Thats good for me considering the life of this machine and battery.

I have started to unmount the second drive though, but not sure it saves on power at the moment as I've not had this mod long.
 
stevieapollo said:
so i bought a seagate M 500 7200 for my umbp and cloned yhe drive and installed it myself. everything seems to be working fine but i noticed that it take a long time for the computer to boot up. longer then it did with the stock drive. I believe somethin is wrong because this drive should allow the computer to boot up faster rather then slower:mad: any thought???


thanx

*apollo*
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I'd definately return this drive and have it replace. Seems clearly defective.
 
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