Upgraded to Momentus XT HD now battery only lasts 1.5-2 hours

[eddiexhart]

A friend of mine gave me a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM and I love it, its snappy and quiet. The only downside that I have noticed is that the battery went from lasting 5-7 hours to 1.5-2.5 hours. And I only use my MacBook for light things like web browsing and downloading music and some youtube. Nothing to hardcore. Anybody have any tips or anything?

I have a 15-Inch MacBook Pro i7 2.66 GHz with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.

 

[GGJstudios]

A friend of mine gave me a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM and I love it, its snappy and quiet. The only downside that I have noticed is that the battery went from lasting 5-7 hours to 1.5-2.5 hours. And I only use my MacBook for light things like web browsing and downloading music and some youtube. Nothing to hardcore. Anybody have any tips or anything?

I have a 15-Inch MacBook Pro i7 2.66 GHz with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.

Your battery life is dependent on many factors, including screen brightness, WiFi, bluetooth, apps/processes/widgets running, Flash on websites, etc.

This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:

Apple Notebook Battery FAQ​

 

[eddiexhart]

This should be fun. Thank you very much!

 

[snaky69]

Did you do a fresh install of OS X with the new hard drive or did you just copy everything over(cloned it?).

Corrupted files could be eating away CPU cycles and lowering your battery life quite a bit.

 

[eddiexhart]

I cloned it actually. What should I from here then?

 

[ECUpirate44]

I cloned it actually. What should I from here then?

I dont like to clone because it brings all the crap that may have been on your system previously. I would reinstall OSX and test it without anything on it to rule out a hardware problem. Then I would start rebuilding piece by piece.

 

[skidmarc]

I'm running a clone of a clone without any issues. I doubt your image has anything to do with it.

 

[blueroom]

I had a Mometus XT in my MBP and it chews through the battery. A Vertex 2 SSD has proven much better.