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    Seagate Momentus 640GB 2.5" Hard Drive ST9640322AS

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Phil, Jul 9, 2009.

  1. Phil

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    This drive seems to be out. Please post any information and benchmarks here.
     
    Phil, Jul 9, 2009
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    Hi
    how you doing :)
    how many platters it gonna have?
     
    Evoss-X, Jul 9, 2009
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    I'm going to guess two platters! Wuwu~!
     
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    I don't think this hdd will be succesfull
    bcos I had 320GB and that was not good
    and have it 2 in one .. might be a disaster :D
    what do you think ?
     
    Evoss-X, Jul 9, 2009
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    I don't see any relation btw your 320GB and this 640GB drive. It's not 2 in 1...
     
    sgogeta4, Jul 9, 2009
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    This will probably be a drive that is good for storage, not so much for performance because of the higher acces times.

    These drives have been shipping already as external Seagate Free Agents (or what ever they call their external HDDs). I'm surprised we haven't seen HDTune results yet.
     
    Phil, Jul 10, 2009
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    I have been using the 320 GB 5400 rpm from Seagate for the past 1 year. Very stable and decent write/read speed. I have a question though. Will this new drive fit in my system(mentioned below)? It has dual hard drives and the current config. is 120 GB Fujitsu + 320 GB Seagate.
     
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    Yes any SATA hard drive should fit. Unless this new Seagate is a 12.5mm high drive.
     
    Phil, Jul 10, 2009
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    The new drives are having SATA 2 I believe because I had to use a jumper to get the 320 GB one detected in my system.
     
    Pranalien, Jul 10, 2009
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    So if these drives are already being sold why don't we hear anything about it? Surely someone must have one.

    Here is the Seagate product page.
    They're $183 at Costcentral.

    Edit: Oh wait, they're not in stock yet.
     
    Phil, Jul 12, 2009
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    Anyone get the FreeAgent Go? They should be the same drives..
     
    sgogeta4, Jul 12, 2009
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    Already saw a HDtune benchmark of this drive.
     
    kaltmond, Jul 13, 2009
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    Remember where?

    Remember scores? acces time?
     
    Phil, Jul 13, 2009
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    Will search later and post pics.
     
    kaltmond, Jul 13, 2009
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    Test.

    [​IMG]
     
    kaltmond, Jul 15, 2009
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    Acces times are quite low. Looks promising. Thanks for posting.

    So now we know the type as well: ST9640322AS. Google does not bring back much interesting stuff. Besides one NZ store that has it listed for $235 NZ.
     
    Phil, Jul 15, 2009
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    The only way I'm going back to mechanical hard drives if they relase a 2.5 2TB one :)

    640gb isn't a huge leap over 500gb.
     
    Darth Bane, Jul 15, 2009
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    Based on this, I'm guessing it's 5400rpm.
     
    Han Bao Quan, Jul 15, 2009
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    It is a 5400RPM drive.
     
    sgogeta4, Jul 15, 2009
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    So my 640GB finally arrivaled, will post some benchs later.
     
    kaltmond, Aug 10, 2009
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    can't wait, where did you get it?
     
    Darth Bane, Aug 10, 2009
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    Very cool. Could you do some real world benches?

    Like booting Windows, hibernating or duplicating a 5GB folder, comparing it to your old drive.
     
    Phil, Aug 10, 2009
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    Met another problem... M860TU is send for repair, and the M980NU can only detect 2 SSD, the 3rd HDD (ST 640G) cannot seen both in BIOS and system..... And the 2 SSD are in raid 0 array, cannot just replaced with the ST one.....So no way to bench the disk, at least now.... :(
     
    kaltmond, Aug 11, 2009
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    Hopefully these 640gb drives dont have the dreaded "scratchy" clicking noise like the 500gb units.
     
    iGrim, Aug 11, 2009
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    There's a full review at http://blog.penguintrail.com. Access times are a bit low, of course, because it's 5400RPM but transfers are very swift. Might need to get one for my Thinkpad X200 ;)
     
    AmazingRando, Aug 12, 2009
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    17.0ms is actually pretty good.
     
    Phil, Aug 12, 2009
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    Yes, looks promising in terms of access times, not really fast burst transfers. Wonder how reliable it is or how noisy it is.
     
    t30power, Aug 12, 2009
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    Seagate 7200.4 is still faster, eventhough it has smaller density

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]
     
    hendra, Aug 13, 2009
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    Burst speeds as reported by HDTune are not reliable. You can't really draw any conclusions from them.
     
    Phil, Aug 13, 2009
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    Ok, now get a 500GB running at 5400 rpm and then see whos faster ;)
     
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    Well, in HDTune my 5400.7 is faster than my 5k500.B. Real world not tested yet.
     
    kaltmond, Aug 13, 2009
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    Consider the fact that drives with 250GB per platter (5400rpm) reach up to 64MB/s in average read the results from the seagate 640GB are a little bit disappointing.
     
    rapsuperstar, Aug 13, 2009
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    I've installed into my MBP (MacBookPro4,1), I fresh installed snow leopard.

    I really didn't like this drive at all, ok I got a huge space, but real life performance is not there, there is no performance, I am now installing ilife09, with all components selected gives me 49min to finish.

    Word 2008 completely opens after 70-80 jumps :(

    Booting is fast though, it is the only thing. I also format the drive 2 times didn't change anything.
    My old drive performs much better even when I run leopard on it through an external usb enclosure.

    Help me! :(
     
    knightfall, Sep 4, 2009
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    Run some diagnostics. Install Windows (bootcamp or vmware) and run HDTune. Post the results of page 1 and 2 here.
     
    Phil, Sep 4, 2009
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    I currently don't have a windows disc.
    I found xBench, I don't know how reliable is that but here is the disk test results.

    [​IMG]
     
    knightfall, Sep 4, 2009
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    Without HDTune there's not much I can tell. Maybe someone else can.
     
    Phil, Sep 4, 2009
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    Can anyone confirm if this drive has the weird scratchy tick sound when in idle? Seagate 2.5" drives since the 160gb units are well known for this annoying noise.
     
    iGrim, Sep 4, 2009
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    No ticking at all... It is very silent, indeed.
     
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    We'll see....
     
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    I've installed HD Tune finally, but cannot perform any write test? :confused:

    Isn't that important? :confused:
     
    knightfall, Sep 5, 2009
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    Not important. You can only do the write test on an empty HDD.

    Please post the screenshot of the read test. (first terminate as many back ground processes as possible)
     
    Phil, Sep 5, 2009
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    Here we go...

    These two are Windows 7 64 bit on MacBook Pro 4.1 (SATA 1)

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]

    This one Windows XP 32 bit on MacBook Pro 4.1 (SATA 1)

    [​IMG]
     
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    It's normal i think. Access time i a bit high.
     
    kaltmond, Sep 5, 2009
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    Transfer rates seem a bit low too.
     
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    a very poor performer.
     
    ajreynol, Sep 5, 2009
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    It might be due to SATA I port on my board, this drive has a SATA II controller. :confused:
     
    knightfall, Sep 5, 2009
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    18.0 ms is actually quite good when compared to 5400.6 500GB. Seagate made some improvement.
     
    Phil, Sep 6, 2009
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    Please someone explain this to me why my Hitachi 7K200 200gb harddrive performs much much better in real life than this 640GB Momentus Drive even with the crappy HD Tune Results. :confused: :confused: :confused:

    I took out the Segate yesterday, replaced it my factory installed Hitachi 7k200 200gb HDD.

    I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard and Windows 7 x64 (bootcamp) .

    Here is the hd tunes results of Hitachi, performs million times better than seagate right now, both in macOs and Windows7 :eek:
    (64bit Bootcamp drivers used)

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]
     
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    The transfer rates of the Seagate are higher than the Hitachi but that's not so important. The acces times and IOPS are more interesting. As you can see the Hitachi beats the Seagate in acces time and IOPS.
     
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