Momentus XT, Momentus, Momentus Thin, MobileMax, and other notebook drives

[Joy]

As we knew, there are lots of compatible problems with the Momentus XT.

But Seagate didn't give us a solution or even a response.

Why do we need to waste so much time for this? it's not fair for everybody and people who trust Seagate.

I want to collect all the problems&info and send to Seagate again.

If they still ignore those issues, I'll release those info to mass media.

So, please help me to fill in the information as follow format, and please forward this link to internet/forum/website... as you can...

1.Desktop/ laptop/or other device

2.model/motherboard

3.OS

4.problem description

1. laptop

2.Apple Macbook pro 13" 2009 mid

3.OSX 10.6.x

4.when I try to make a raid0 system, lag ,freeze ,and extreme hot

[Ma2Tmatt]

1. Laptop

2. Dell XPS M1530 / Latest BIOS

3. Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Fresh install

4. Frequent freezing (crashed), mouse stops moving, nothing responds, have to restart.

5. 500GB, SD23 Firmware

[DarkPeanut]

1. Laptop

2. Macbook Pro Late 2007

3. Mac OS X 10.6.4 freshly installed

4. random spin downs of the platters for 1 sec resulting in system freezing waiting until HDD is spun up again

5. Momentus XT 500GB with SD23 Firmware

[macstar]

1. Laptop

2. Macbook Pro 13'' Mid 2009

3. Mac OS X 10.6.4 freshly installed

4a. On SD22: Random spin downs of the platters for 1 sec resulting in system freezing waiting until HDD is spun up again, Runs Hot, Huge amounts of vibration (twice as much as the 7200.4 that I used to have)

4b. On SD23: Extremely hot, NEVER sleep (with os "standby" command for HDs, sleeps fine with complete system sleep), Huge amounts of vibration (twice as much as the 7200.4 that I used to have)

5. Momentus XT 500GB with SD23 Firmware

[korpro]

1. Laptop

2. HP Elitebook 8530w

3. Windows 7 Professional, fully patched to latest available.

4. 500GB drive. Came with SD23 installed. First week and a half, awesome. I have never seen Visio load so quickly, or Windows resume from suspend that fast. In the last couple of days: drive light comes on solid for around five seconds, every 30 seconds perhaps. Machine "freezes" when you go to do something, pausing for around 3-5 seconds. It got to the point where I actually went and poked around my machine to see if there was a key logger or some other sort of trojan/virus on the machine just in case, but all my protection is up to date and didn't report any issues.

[AlanM]

Please let me assure everyone that I am keeping a close eye on this thread so as to deliver the info to teams that are evaluating the Momentus XT user experience. 

[macstar]

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AlanM wrote:

Please let me assure everyone that I am keeping a close eye on this thread so as to deliver the info to teams that are evaluating the Momentus XT user experience. 

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Thank you Alan.

Andreas

[iangle]

1. Laptop

2. MacBook Pro 15''(late 2009)

3. Mac OS 10.6.4 fresh install

4.1 SD22: constantly spin up and spin down, random beach balls, battery time reduced by 1h

4.2 SD23: no spin down, drive runs constantly, battery power reduced by 2.5h

5. 320GB Momentus XT SD23

as a sight note:

Start Stop Count: 18707

Power On Hours: 309

Load Cycle Count: 17713

I feel, the numbers for the Start Stop and Load Cycle Count are very high specially when I look to the max. numbers in the product manual:

Load/Unload (U/UL) cycles: 600,000 software-controlled power on/off cycles 50,000 hard power on/off cycles

this would mean that after approx. 438 days the max. Load/Unload limit is reached?

any comments/recommendations are highly appreciated

regards

hans

[fqr1973]

1. Laptop

2. Acer ex 5635z

3 windows xp, sp3

4. strong vibrations, and the xt is getting a bit too hot

5. xt 320GB, sd23

coming from a scorpio black with no vibrations at all, the xt annoys me, although i like the performance

[Joy]

i'm going to buy a macbook pro 15" i5, and test again.