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    Seagate 2.5" St9500325as 500gb 5400rpm Sata 8mb

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by skipp3r, Nov 17, 2008.

  1. skipp3r

    skipp3r Notebook Guru

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    has anyone bought this disk drive. the performance would be of great interest
     
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  2. Phil

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    I have not seen any benchmarks yet, but I'd be surprised if it's much different than WD5000BEVT. For the WD you can find benchmarks on this forum by searching for the modelnumber.
     
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    skipp3r Notebook Guru

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    there's actually a hdtune benchmark picture, in chinese, in ebay.com. i'm not sure if it's fake or real. it shows a max performance of 83MB/s. it seems likely to be true though. i actually found it cheap here for $118 but they dont ship outside the US. here in germany, it's already being listed for €120 and it aint even available yet
     
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    5400.6 is already out for sale for a few weeks...
     
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    19.1ms average access... not too great.

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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    It should perform similar to the WD, considering the platters of the Wd and the Seagate are made in the same clean room

    K-TRON
     
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  8. John Ratsey

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    I would have thought there is potential for the data on the platter to be configured differently by changing the number of tracks and the data per track. More data per track should increase the transfer rate but fewer tracks means the physical track-to-track head movement will be more.

    John
     
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    Exactly. I'd go for the WD.

    The Seagate may be optimized for power efficiency though.
     
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    see I can not assume that random access time based on only one graph. In chinese too, lol

    what I could assume at this point is only that the Seagate would be quieter than the WD, based on previous models. However, that's not for sure too.
     
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