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Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
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It truly amazes me on the capacity and speed that hard drives have evolved into over the years. I remember not so long ago the large 3.5" drives with the IDE cables that took up so much room in the case. Let alone the limitation on only four IDE devic...
Small 2.5" size, 7200RPM, 16MB cache, Very fast read and write speeds...
Expensive compared to 2.5" 5400 RPM drives...
The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 drive performed very well throughout the testing. The drive even gave the bigger brother the 3.5" Seagate 7200.11 drive a run for its money and even beating it out the majority of the time. The overall read and write speeds...
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The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (ST9500420AS) is a 500GB 2.5in hard drive with a spin speed of 7200rpm and a 16MB cache. Despite being small enough to fit in a laptop drive bay it is faster than many 3.5in hard drives designed for desktop PCs. The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 is faster than 5400rpm laptop drives weve tested, such as the Western Digital Scorpio Blue (WD5000BEVT) and the Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250GB (ST9250827AS). This was shown in our transfer tests. We copied 19.4GB of files from our...
Very fast read/write speeds, relatively good price per gigabyte...
Vibrates more than a 5400rpm laptop hard drive...
The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (ST9500420AS) is a laptop hard drive that offers faster read/write speeds than many larger desktop hard drives. If you need a fast and cool hard drive for laptops, media centre PCs or network-attached storage (NAS) devices...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2016-11-14 23:13:41
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It also has a double amount of cache (16 megabytes) compared with its cousins that have slower platters. The Seagate website announces a 750GB model already which seems to hail from a whole new series that, like the junior one, lacks an ordinal number in the end of the name. Unfortunately, we...
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Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB - We're at a loss to explain how this 7200rpm drive can be quieter than the 5400rpm Momentus 500GB with the same number of platters that we reviewed in the spring. Perhaps one or both of our samples are atypical — it's hard to say one way or the other without a...
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The Seagate Momentus, for the uninitiated, is a family of 2.5″ hard drives representing a broad range of capacity and features. This Seagate Momentus represents the cream of the crop; a 7200-RPM drive boasting a whopping half-terabyte of capacity. Des...
I really went into this skeptical, I promise I did. But I’ve been using this drive daily for weeks, and I just can’t find a single weak spot. The only thing I can come up with is a slight increase in susceptibility to gyroscopic effects over...
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cluboc.net Updated: 2016-11-14 23:13:41
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Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive This year has been inarguably the most exciting year for one of the least exciting components of the PC, the venerable hard disk drive. Its no secret that SSDs have started to shake things up in...
As we can see from our testing, the new Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB packs quite a punch compared to the slower 5400.6 Momentus, even approaching desktop drive speeds. It would appear that Seagate isnt going to go down without a fight, giving consu...
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Computerpoweruser.com Updated: 2016-11-14 23:13:41
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16MB cache; 7,200rpm; 3Gbps SATA; NCQ; 11ms advertised random seek time; 9.5mm thickness; 600,000 load/unload cycles; 0.69 to 2.2W; 23 to 27dBA; 350G/2ms operating, 100G/1ms non-operating shock tolerance; 4 heads/2 disks; RoHS; three-year warranty Power...
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Seagate Momentus 7200.4 hard drives are the fourth generation of Seagate’s laptop storage family to use the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. The Momentus 7200.4 is a 2.5 inch form factor hard drive that s...
The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB hard drive is slightly faster than the previous generation of 7200.3 hard drives, but faces fierce price versus value competition with other 500GB that are slightly slower and half the price...
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We take a look at not one, but two of Seagates new Momentus 7200.4 500GB notebook hard drives and test both single drive and RAID 0 performance...
One of the most glaring weaknesses of owning a notebook used to be the hard drive, but thats quickly becoming old news. By pushing capacity to 500GB, Seagates Momentus 7200.4 makes owning a mobile PC much more attractive to those concerned with stora...
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Platter based desktop hard drives get bigger and faster every year, as evident by the introduction of products like the enormous Western Digital’s 2TB Caviar Green and the high speed WD Velociraptor. While desktop drives seem to have free reign to be...
Hard drives are the last bottleneck in portable device performance and while Solid State Drives are addressing that fairly quickly, their cost and their relatively small sizes make it impractical for folks that have their whole lives on their noteboo...
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Bjorn3d.com Updated: 2016-11-14 23:13:41
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We recently got a new laptop in the lab because our Athlon 64 3200 (single core) HP laptop was getting long in the tooth and we decided to go with a dual core laptop from Toshiba. We decided to go with a low to mid-range system because its primary us...
Quiet Operation, Holds Its Own With Some 3.5 Inch Hard Drives, Double And Triple The Speed Of The Hitach DeskTar, Much Less Expensive Than SSDs, The Momentus 7200 RPM Drive Requires Hardly Any More Voltage Than a 5200 RPM Drive, Did We Mention Lightning F...
No Bjorn3D Edition Available, Forced Us To Spend Half A Day Thinking Of An Alternative Word To "Pathetic" To Describe The DeskStar...
We found the Seagate Momentus 500 GB 2.5 inch (7200.4) to be a great upgrade to what had been the questionable purchase of a POS Toshiba laptop. Previous to the Seagate Momentus we were using the laptop but not entirely happy with its performance. Ha...
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Available in capacities up to 500 GB with 16MB of cache and a SATA 3Gb/s NCQ interface (I test drove the former on my MacBook), the Momentus 7200.4 laptop hard drive is great for mainstream and performance laptops—as well as workstations, sm...
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i4u.com Updated: 2016-11-14 23:13:41
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One of the first things that many notebook users look at upgrading is the hard drive. Most of the notebooks on the market today come with small hard drives and the cost of having the computer manufacturer add a large drive is often much more than what...
Good performance, Quiet, Drop protection...
No faster than a 5400 rpm drive in real world tests...
Notebook users looking to get a higher performance 7200 rpm drive at very near the same power consumption of the latest 5400 rpm HDDs will want the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB HDD. The drive performs well, is quiet, and won’t reduce battery runtim...
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Redo posted February 18th, 2009, using newer version of DiskTesterand adding the WD Scorpio Black Many of you emailed us expressing a wish that there was a 500GB 7200rpm 9.5 mm thick notebook drive option for the unibody MacBook Pro. Your wish has co...
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