Lighter weight due to the single platter design. Theoretically a faster drive rpm, SATA 6. I attribute the lag to the single platter. Seek and read times are longer since there's more ground to cover with only one head scanning one platter as opposed to two heads and two platters. Only makes sense, right? Overall Review: I moved this drive around over the month I've had it.
It's been the primary drive in a new build, but that gave me the willies a 1TB primary? Wrong, wrong wrong. Then, I slipped it into an external drive housing. It was well suited for that role. It's size makes it a great backup drive, especially for multiple PC's. I really didn't need another external drive, so I installed it in my HTPC and use it for movie storage.
I really only noticed how slow the drive could be when transferring the movies from my Black and Green drives to this Blue drive. Bottom line: I was wary of Blue drives in the past, but they do the job just fine and come in on budget. And to be quite honest, this drive feels Snappier some how. This Blue HDD is only barley warm to the touch even tho it has zero air flow.
However don't get me wrong, Its still very quiet. I can still hear my wife's laptop fan kick on 10' across the room over this drive and if I didn't have my fans speed set so low im sure my GFX card fan would easily drown this HDDs whirl sound out no problem.
Solid HDD! Add to cart. Price Alert. Add To Wish List Found on 4 wish lists. Best Sellers. Shipped by Newegg. Are you an E-Blast Insider? See more " 4tb hdd ". Capacity: 4TB GB. Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems. Low Power Consumption State-of-the-art seeking algorithms and advanced power management features help ensure low power consumption.
NoTouch Ramp Load Technology Safely positions the recording head off the disk surface to protect your data. This software enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive. Virgil B. Eggxpert Review. Did you? Yes No. Michael J. Cons: None, other than my mistakes Overall Review: Windows 7 formatting tool threw this drive for a loop, or probably more likely I did something to give it grief.
William W. Manufacturer Response:. Dear Mooreman, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that you have experienced. We understand your situation and will gladly replace your in-warranty drive, as we stand by our products and their associated warranties. Matt M. We appreciate your feedback and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with the Caviar Blue 1TB, as this is not the typical experience with the product.
Western Digital has multiple devices and depending on the category for that device, it will have a specific warranty term. The Caviar Blue currently comes with a 2 year warranty which can be upgraded for up to 3 years.
For more information about our products warranty follow the link below. However, if your drive was formatted using Windows XP, the alignment of the drives may be offset, which leads to extreme performance loss. Warranty: 5 years. Long product name Seagate Momentus Short summary description Seagate Momentus Long summary description Seagate Momentus Report mistake.
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Operating shock. Non-operating shock. Read on for the surprising results. The size and weight of traditional 3. These smaller dimensions also allow 2.
Lower weight helps mobile 2. Perhaps most importantly, though, the 2. Despite their diminutive form factors, 2. These drives plug into standard SATA data and power cables, making them particularly intriguing options for small form factor systems. If enthusiasts are going to press mobile Pentium M and Turion 64 processors into action in toaster-sized boxes, they might as well bring along mobile hard drives to match.
Unfortunately, the connector compatibility enjoyed by 2. Unfortunately, the Momentus Look for more in-depth coverage of that drive around here soon. Since 2. Most of the specs line up, making comparisons easy. Unfortunately, Hitachi and Seagate disagree on how to communicate the internal transfer rates of their mobile drives.
Seagate prefers to give the average sustained transfer rate, which is measured at the middle of the disk. Reporting spindle speeds is something both Hitachi and Seagate can agree on, but seek times are another story.
Seagate gives the seek times for its Momentus drives as an average, but Hitachi breaks the seek time down into read and write components. Oddly, though, Hitachi quotes an average seek time for its Travelstar 5K but not for the 7K The 5,RPM drives obviously have much slower seek times due to their slower spindle speeds, and that will invariably impact performance.
Platter size can also have an impact on performance, as platters with higher areal densities allow more data to be accessed over a shorter physical distance. Those platters are only available on the Momentus The platter size for 7,RPM drives from both manufacturers tops out at 50GB, although again, it depends on the total capacity of the drive.
Warranty coverage differs between the two manufacturers, though. Like all Seagate drives, the Momentus Still, it will be interesting to see how its performance compares across a wide range of applications, as well as in terms of noise levels and power consumption. These drives differ when it comes to external transfer rates, spindle speeds, platter densities, and capacity, all of which can have an impact on performance. Keep in mind the following differences as we move through our benchmarks:.
On the 7,RPM front, the Hitachi and Seagate drives should be pretty comparable, as they share the same platter size and similar pricing. The 80GB drive uses lower capacity 40GB platters that will inevitably have slower transfer rates, especially when compared with the Momentus Keep that in mind if you see the Momentus Also keep in mind the rather large difference in price between those two drives.
This comparison focuses on 2. However, all testing was conducted on the same platform as our 3. Our testing methods All tests were run three times, and their results were averaged, using the following test system.
Vertical refresh sync vsync was disabled for all tests. All the tests and methods we employed are publicly available and reproducible. If you have questions about our methods, hit our forums to talk with us about them. WorldBench overall performance WorldBench uses scripting to step through a series of tasks in common Windows applications.
It then produces an overall score. WorldBench also spits out individual results for its component application tests, allowing us to compare performance in each. Despite its 1,RPM spindle speed disadvantage, the Momentus There, the Momentus The tables turn briefly in Photoshop, as the Travelstar 7K takes the lead. The Momentus drives move back to the front of the 2. Not even our 3. Both WinZip and Nero give our drives plenty of opportunity to differentiate themselves.
WinZip seems particularly partial to spindle speed, with the Travelstar 7K just edging out the Momentus Seagate gets a little revenge among the 5,RPM drives, though, as the Momentus The 7,RPM Momentus does lead our mobile drives, but again, we see the At least the 7K is faster than the 5K, which really struggles in this test.
Boot and load times To test system boot and game level load times, we busted out our trusty stopwatch. Seagate rules our boot time test, as the Momentus drives take the system to the Windows desktop at least four seconds faster than the Travelstars. Again, the The Momentus There, it proves slower than both 7,RPM drives by a couple of seconds.
File Copy Test File Copy Test is a pseudo-real-world benchmark that times how long it takes to create, read, and copy files in various test patterns. File copying is tested twice: once with the source and target on the same partition, and once with the target on a separate partition. FC-Test uses five different test patterns, which gives us a good range of scores to explore.
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