How about an updated comparison.Change the extremely slow ssd you picked with a Crucial C300-CTFDDAC256MAG it cost less then the ssd you pick and is by far faster.And trade out the 7200rpm thats not even in the same price rang with a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3R HE103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM it cost the same with 500gb more storage.I doubt the speeds will be so over whelming.
Two. The Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue is an average AT BEST SSD (google reviews for it). How about running this test again against a Crucial C300 on a SATA 6Gb/s controller or against the highly-rated OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD. The random read/write speeds for the SiliconEdge drive tested here are pitiful against these other top tier SSDs.
@captmorgannu Thats not the point. The point was to show that While SSD's have obviously faster speeds, this drive gives you a great compromise of SSD and HDD
One. The Seagate Momentus XT is very fast on its 4GB of SSD storage (likely where many of the files for this test were stored) but is still a 7200rpm drive for the remaining 500GB. ...
I've had my Momentus XT for 1 month now and My notebook has never been this fast. I actually look forward to getting on it now as opposed to before I did the upgrade. With 500GB of space I can store what ever I want without sacrafice. Boots up in only 27 seconds and shuts down in about 7. This is impressive for an Acer 9410Z 1.6Ghz Dual core maching running win.7 & Ubuntu10.4 w/all compiz special effects enabled.
What is the benefit of this drive if it still has a conventional mechanical hard drive that is prone to crashes if you handle the lap top roughly while it is on?
@dallase1 Are you implying that all spindle drives do crash? How necessary is it for you to roughly handle your laptop? I have been building pc's since 1998 and messing with them since 1993 and I have yet to crash a hard drive by any means or have one of mine crash unexpectedly. I'm hoping this one wil not be the first either. Clearly the benifet to owning these drive are the cost & speed improvement vs Raptors, SSD's and raid setups.
me so confused :S my 7200rpm drive boots 3 secs faster then the 10k in this vid == maybe he got lot more to load? :O
JerrySSnipes 10 months ago
@JerrySSnipes yup your very confused id say the 7200rpm hd comes in last PERIOD !
joecobra1234 6 months ago
almost on par
coolgames14 11 months ago
#1 WDC 256gb ssd ($500shipped) <over priced pos low level SSD
#2 SG momentus 500gb ($100shipped)
#3 WDC 10k 300gb ($150shipped) < fairly priced
#4 Hitachi 7200rpm 500gb ($40shipped) <over priced low level 7200rpm
slammintriple6 11 months ago
How about an updated comparison.Change the extremely slow ssd you picked with a Crucial C300-CTFDDAC256MAG it cost less then the ssd you pick and is by far faster.And trade out the 7200rpm thats not even in the same price rang with a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3R HE103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM it cost the same with 500gb more storage.I doubt the speeds will be so over whelming.
slammintriple6 11 months ago
What is the name of the "performance test" you used?
ontheedge1979 11 months ago
i think steve might be the least eloquent man in the entire world. i say man because sarah palin still holds the title for the least eloquent person.
jckbiggs 11 months ago
Thats interesting, our 5-6 year old Pentium 4 desktop computers at school load labview faster than any of the samples here.
TheCengreth 1 year ago
7:06
arpace 1 year ago
Two. The Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue is an average AT BEST SSD (google reviews for it). How about running this test again against a Crucial C300 on a SATA 6Gb/s controller or against the highly-rated OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD. The random read/write speeds for the SiliconEdge drive tested here are pitiful against these other top tier SSDs.
captmorgannu 1 year ago
@captmorgannu Thats not the point. The point was to show that While SSD's have obviously faster speeds, this drive gives you a great compromise of SSD and HDD
rahmanroni 1 year ago
Two things:
One. The Seagate Momentus XT is very fast on its 4GB of SSD storage (likely where many of the files for this test were stored) but is still a 7200rpm drive for the remaining 500GB. ...
captmorgannu 1 year ago
I've had my Momentus XT for 1 month now and My notebook has never been this fast. I actually look forward to getting on it now as opposed to before I did the upgrade. With 500GB of space I can store what ever I want without sacrafice. Boots up in only 27 seconds and shuts down in about 7. This is impressive for an Acer 9410Z 1.6Ghz Dual core maching running win.7 & Ubuntu10.4 w/all compiz special effects enabled.
s2000julius 1 year ago
You just sold me a Momentus XT. Very well done comparison.
guyfromfremont 1 year ago
thats great for laptop people, now I want desktop/server - lets face it - most desktops are being used as servers now.
migxp1 1 year ago
@migxp1
Nah, many use them as gaming pcs.
wiigamer136 1 year ago
@wiigamer136 shhhh, uuuurrrrr right, but for us older guys who ummm , don't really play games, we only need gaming servers.
migxp1 1 year ago
@migxp1
Okay then whatever you say.
wiigamer136 1 year ago
What is the benefit of this drive if it still has a conventional mechanical hard drive that is prone to crashes if you handle the lap top roughly while it is on?
dallase1 1 year ago
@dallase1 Are you implying that all spindle drives do crash? How necessary is it for you to roughly handle your laptop? I have been building pc's since 1998 and messing with them since 1993 and I have yet to crash a hard drive by any means or have one of mine crash unexpectedly. I'm hoping this one wil not be the first either. Clearly the benifet to owning these drive are the cost & speed improvement vs Raptors, SSD's and raid setups.
s2000julius 1 year ago
Great comparison video, thank you very much. I'm installing OSX on one right now.
jwmcmurdo 1 year ago
Now THAT's how you do a comparison! GJ.
DJMyst1k 1 year ago
very good video comparison
voxmagna2 1 year ago