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    Seagate Momentus XT

    Discussion in 'HP' started by RBeeman, Jul 11, 2011.

  1. RBeeman

    RBeeman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone have any experience with a Seagate Momentus XT in their Envy? Seems like a fair trade off in capacity and performance. The 500GB is under $100 now on Amazon and has peaked my interest.
     
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    pjd2011 Notebook Consultant

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    I actually have the exact same set up as you plus the Seagate and am very pleased! I really can't report too much as I've only had it for a week now but it is just as fast as my desktop.
     
    pjd2011, Jul 12, 2011
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  3. RBeeman

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    Nice! What drive does your desktop have? What drive did your Envy come with and did you just clone it or do a fresh install? Did it dramatically improve boot time as advertised?
     
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    I'm really interested in this too. I would love to have a full SSD, but that's just not practical. I love getting the SSD speed on launching Windows and such, but still have the capacity to store some other stuff.

    Edit: Sorry to be thread-stealing, but I'm hoping this may pertain to OP as well. If I were to buy and install a Seagate Momentus XT, would it be possible to take the original HDD, buy some type of housing or enclosure for it, and use it as an external hard drive? I don't know too much about all that hardware modding, but I do think that'd be a great, productive use of the original HDD.
     
    dcheng11, Jul 12, 2011
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    Chyaddo, Jul 12, 2011
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    Oh man, that's great. Thanks Chyaddo! I had searched those actually. I just wasn't sure if they were what I was looking for :p.
     
    dcheng11, Jul 12, 2011
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  7. RBeeman

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    That is a good idea. My personal plan, if I move forward, is to see about using my stock 320GB drive to upgrade my 40GB PlayStation 3.
     
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    It came with the 320gb HDD which I can't say I ever experienced because I bought this used. However, I can say this thing boots up fast! My desktop has a 640gb 7200rpm drive and it takes a solid half minute longer. Sorry I don't know more detailed specs as I don't have the time to run any tests. What I did test is from hibernation to typing my password to pulling up chrome took ~15 seconds which is plenty fast for me. Regular boot from completely powered off takes about ~30 seconds.

    Again these are just approximations. I'll see if I can run a test.
     
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    Ok so my official boot time using the program listed in this forum was 43 seconds. Using my phone's stopwatch I could navigate and open Chrome in 37 seconds.
     
    pjd2011, Jul 12, 2011
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    I also have the exact setup you do, minus the 8GB of RAM. I have the momentus XT 500gb and it runs pretty well, in terms of performance, I didn't notice much at first, after a few days and bootups, I was able to consistently get under 50seconds for my boot. But it varies, thats the only area i really notice the improvement. On a sidenote, HP protectsmart HDD protection isn't compatible with this drive ( I didn't expect it to be). I upgraded from 320gb hdd, so the momentus xt was a decent investment for me as I can't afford an SSD.
     
    brendrt451, Jul 14, 2011
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    By the way, I did a fresh install. I wanted to see how it would perform out of the box, fresh. I have the same processor, as you also.
     
    brendrt451, Jul 14, 2011
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