I always Zero-ed my drive before I use it. But the **** drive kept dying on me. Bye Seagate. WD, Hitachi, Fujitsu, welcome back ;p
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Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB HD Now Shipping?
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Good link - I just thought I'd add the link to the first page of the review (of 14) in case others don't realize your link was the last page/conclusion. Makes me glad I sprung for the WD Scorpio Blue 500g for $89 when I did. It's been a solid performer all around, and a good alternative for those who aren't really stuck on the "7200 rpm" specs being a must-have.
had to search all the best buys around me to get instant gratification (didn't wanna wait a few days for newegg) but finally found a seagate about an hour away, got home just in time for fedex to deliver my new mbp, threw it in immediately & am loving it!
just sent for a replacement drive also, only had my MBP 2 weeks after migrating from ****** windows...immediately laced my MPB with the new drive aaaand...clunk...crash, had to install OS x 6 times as the new drive kept failing...not impressed.
....so the new drive works pretty good then?.... thats encouraging, hopefully get mine soon....
Anyone else experiencing slow speeds?
I installed the drive back in Feb, and it has been running fine for the most part, but it still seems slow in many areas. I've x-benched it occasionally, but never with any precision until recently, and I keep getting terrible x-bench scores. I'm on a MBP SR 2.2, 4GB, 70GB free on the disk, and these are the results that I'm still getting consistently with a clean testing environment.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so what could be a possible remedy?
TIA
I installed the drive back in Feb, and it has been running fine for the most part, but it still seems slow in many areas. I've x-benched it occasionally, but never with any precision until recently, and I keep getting terrible x-bench scores. I'm on a MBP SR 2.2, 4GB, 70GB free on the disk, and these are the results that I'm still getting consistently with a clean testing environment.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so what could be a possible remedy?
TIA
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maybe your drive ist just nearly full?
rotating drives lose speed while getting full.
my drive has 220GB free. installed january09
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This isn't the case - I have 70GB free, which is about the most I can have given the data I need on the drive.
This isn't true, 1.5Gb/s = 192 MB/s, and the fastest speed that my drive displayed was for Uncached Write with 4K blocks at 56.6MB/s
Additionally I have seen other xbench results from this configuration (SATA 1.5) that read in the mid 50s like yours rw3.
I'm just not sure what's going on. I also recently did a completely clean install of Leopard and tried xbench on 10.5.0 and 10.5.7 with nothing else installed and still got high 30s for my score. It's strange because it seems that if the drive were damaged or dying, it would be exhibiting symptoms of such, instead of just being slow.
Thanks for the initial responses - I think there is something deeper going on here - any other thoughts?
I think they have a Windows app called "Sea Tools" or something like that, but is there an OS X app?
Thanks!
Just an FYI, I bought my seagate 7200rpm 500gb hard drive from Fry's as a retail box. Why? 5 year warranty. So far it's quiet and fast. 
Here are mine from my mini with the seagate 500GB 5400 and my MB and uMBP with the Seagate 500GB 7200. All show better scores than these last few posts. Why would that be? Is there something to do with the software load ro the benchmark tool itself?
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Hate to break it to ya'll Seagate users, WD is better and more reliable. Their stock is doing better, so there is a better management team, therefore better quality control. Seagate no longer has a 5-year warranty advantage over WD. WD has proven to be more reliable recently.
What is the difference between the ST9500420AS that everyone is discussing here and the ST905003N3A1AS-RK version that Best Buy is selling? I really want to pick up one of these this morning, but I can't figure out which to buy. Thanks!
RK normally means retail kit which probably means it comes in a pretty box with perhaps some extra stuff such as cables, manuals, screws etc which you won't need, and a higher price tag. You should only need the bare drive for the swap, but it doesn't do any harm to have the extra stuff you won't use, except it might cost more. The bare drive is just that - a disk drive in a cardboard box, which is sufficient because when you swap it, you use the same cables and screws the old one was using.
Despite winning a brand new WD 500 5400 on the bay earlier this week for $65 shipped, curiousity got the best of me yesterday and I picked up a Momentus 500 at Best Buy, figuring I could easily sell the WD when it arrives if the 7200 worked out.
It did not work out. The thing vibrated so much in my MBP 13" that I put the mylar wrapper it came in on top of the keyboard and I could see the mylar shaking.
I also did the jaw test, whereby I lift the Macbook and press the front left corner against my jaw. My whole head hummed rather loudly.
To be fair, the stock Hitachi 250/5400 vibrates a bit too. My previous uMB was dead calm with zero vibration. Maybe there's something different about the way the drive is mounted in these new 13" MBPs.
The 7200 is going back to BB. Fingers crossed for a quiet vibration free 5400 from UPS later today.
It did not work out. The thing vibrated so much in my MBP 13" that I put the mylar wrapper it came in on top of the keyboard and I could see the mylar shaking.
I also did the jaw test, whereby I lift the Macbook and press the front left corner against my jaw. My whole head hummed rather loudly.
To be fair, the stock Hitachi 250/5400 vibrates a bit too. My previous uMB was dead calm with zero vibration. Maybe there's something different about the way the drive is mounted in these new 13" MBPs.
The 7200 is going back to BB. Fingers crossed for a quiet vibration free 5400 from UPS later today.
after exactly 30 days my drive went dead. i did the safari update and when my mac went to restart all i got was a folder with a blinking question-mark.
i put my old drive back in installed the seagate in the usb case and pulled it up as an external hardrive. when i go to check it with disk utility, all i get is a failed message.
im pretty sure my drive is dead. too bad i bought it from Tiger Direct. they just tell me to call seagate....
i put my old drive back in installed the seagate in the usb case and pulled it up as an external hardrive. when i go to check it with disk utility, all i get is a failed message.
im pretty sure my drive is dead. too bad i bought it from Tiger Direct. they just tell me to call seagate....