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

[Mullion Blasto]

I'm hoping I did something wrong in my configuration. My new Momentus XT (ST95005620AS) is 20%-ish slower than my previous drive (same interface, same RPM, smaller size and Hitachi).

Here's what I did. I cloned the previous drive using Acronis. I powered up fine with the Momentus XT clone. The first boot seemed to be quite a bit faster.

My setup:

Thinkpad T61p, 8gb RAM, updated bios

Windows 7 x64

Seagate Momentus XT in SATA as boot.

Hitachi in IDE as second drive (not the same as the cloned drive)

Ready Boost on a dedicated 8GB SSD in the T61p card reader.

What do I mean by slower? Boot isn't much faster where I was hoping for a nice increase. VMware Workstation virtual machines are actually 20% slower across the board.

Any ideas?

Rough thoughts I've had:

1) Build drive instead of clone based on other post (not sure why though).

2) Turn off Ready Boost (also not sure why).

3) Go back to previous drive.

[Mullion Blasto]

I tried other options over the weekend and have had no luck. Does it make sense to open a ticket?

[AlanM]

I would.  Unfortunately, it will take some time for enough people to acquire Momentus XT drives and play with them so as to have relevant knowledge and come here to this forum to post on that topic!  

But I would really appreciate it if you could post what Tech Support says and whether it helped.  

[nomarmax2]

Take out the Ready Boost SD card.  Your new drive will do basically what your Ready Boost SD card will do.  8 GB of RAM is more than enough RAM for Windows 7 64bit.  Based on testing on tomshardware.com RAM over 4 GB is not needed unless you are using large files or Adobe type apps.

Ready Boost memory indexes files used and based on personal experience spend too much time indexing.

[Mullion Blasto]

I disabled Superfetch/Ready Boost. We'll see how it goes. The machine already boots faster by an average of 20 seconds.

[wolfstone]

I dont use readyboost or that but i have had this Momentus XT about 2 weeks now but it still takes about 90 secs for windows to start up