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

[Krisdk]

My gosh! This drive (with SD25) is so much faster than my original 5400 rpm drive....

Seagate, Let's try to flash my "faulty" SD24 momentus XT drive with the new SD25?

[macagain]

I guess a simple albeit not too scientific test of spin down/battery life is just to make sure the notebook is fully charged, then disconnect power, wait about  3-5 mins and see what the battery life is.  If it stays in the 6-7 hr range for you a 2010 i7, then the drive is probably spinning down.  If it's not, you'll probably see about only 3-3.5 remaining on a seemingly full charge.

In my case with a late 2008 unibody, on SD 24, a full charge shows a 2:00 or so remaining immediately on a power disconnect on full charge.  When it was on SD22, it was a hair over 4:00.  When I switched back to the original 7200 drive, it went back to about 4:10 ish.  (Yes, I actually get those numbers... I use the machine on a plane all the time, most recently yesterday.)

I so hope they fix it this time... Really trying to not drop the $ on a real SSD.

But thanks krisdk for sharing

[Krisdk]

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macagain wrote:

I guess a simple albeit not too scientific test of spin down/battery life is just to make sure the notebook is fully charged, then disconnect power, wait about  3-5 mins and see what the battery life is.  If it stays in the 6-7 hr range for you a 2010 i7, then the drive is probably spinning down.  If it's not, you'll probably see about only 3-3.5 remaining on a seemingly full charge.

In my case with a late 2008 unibody, on SD 24, a full charge shows a 2:00 or so remaining immediately on a power disconnect on full charge.  When it was on SD22, it was a hair over 4:00.  When I switched back to the original 7200 drive, it went back to about 4:10 ish.  (Yes, I actually get those numbers... I use the machine on a plane all the time, most recently yesterday.)

I so hope they fix it this time... Really trying to not drop the $ on a real SSD.

But thanks krisdk for sharing

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I have now worked 3 hours on the laptop (with skype open: has a notorius bug that prevents the INTEL GPU switch. that means I have been running on the NVIDIA GPU) the battery says 1:36 hours left 36% remaining charge! This is way better than SD24!

Im still not convinced that the drive spins down.... but it also set to 10 mins by default (pmset -g disksleep) ... And as I don't smoke I have not left the computer yet ;o)

[Krisdk]

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Krisdk wrote:

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macagain wrote:

I guess a simple albeit not too scientific test of spin down/battery life is just to make sure the notebook is fully charged, then disconnect power, wait about  3-5 mins and see what the battery life is.  If it stays in the 6-7 hr range for you a 2010 i7, then the drive is probably spinning down.  If it's not, you'll probably see about only 3-3.5 remaining on a seemingly full charge.

In my case with a late 2008 unibody, on SD 24, a full charge shows a 2:00 or so remaining immediately on a power disconnect on full charge.  When it was on SD22, it was a hair over 4:00.  When I switched back to the original 7200 drive, it went back to about 4:10 ish.  (Yes, I actually get those numbers... I use the machine on a plane all the time, most recently yesterday.)

I so hope they fix it this time... Really trying to not drop the $ on a real SSD.

But thanks krisdk for sharing

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I have now worked 3 hours on the laptop (with skype open: has a notorius bug that prevents the INTEL GPU switch. that means I have been running on the NVIDIA GPU) the battery says 1:36 hours left 36% remaining charge! This is way better than SD24!

Im still not convinced that the drive spins down.... but it also set to 10 mins by default (pmset -g disksleep) ... And as I don't smoke I have not left the computer yet ;o)

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actually chrome has the same GPU switch bug.... so both SKype and Chrome was running this entire time. But how can you live without chrome???

[Krisdk]

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Krisdk wrote:

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Krisdk wrote:

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macagain wrote:

I guess a simple albeit not too scientific test of spin down/battery life is just to make sure the notebook is fully charged, then disconnect power, wait about  3-5 mins and see what the battery life is.  If it stays in the 6-7 hr range for you a 2010 i7, then the drive is probably spinning down.  If it's not, you'll probably see about only 3-3.5 remaining on a seemingly full charge.

In my case with a late 2008 unibody, on SD 24, a full charge shows a 2:00 or so remaining immediately on a power disconnect on full charge.  When it was on SD22, it was a hair over 4:00.  When I switched back to the original 7200 drive, it went back to about 4:10 ish.  (Yes, I actually get those numbers... I use the machine on a plane all the time, most recently yesterday.)

I so hope they fix it this time... Really trying to not drop the $ on a real SSD.

But thanks krisdk for sharing

---

I have now worked 3 hours on the laptop (with skype open: has a notorius bug that prevents the INTEL GPU switch. that means I have been running on the NVIDIA GPU) the battery says 1:36 hours left 36% remaining charge! This is way better than SD24!

Im still not convinced that the drive spins down.... but it also set to 10 mins by default (pmset -g disksleep) ... And as I don't smoke I have not left the computer yet ;o)

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actually chrome has the same GPU switch bug.... so both SKype and Chrome was running this entire time. But how can you live without chrome???

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1109460

[macagain]

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Krisdk wrote:

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Krisdk wrote:

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Krisdk wrote:

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macagain wrote:

I guess a simple albeit not too scientific test of spin down/battery life is just to make sure the notebook is fully charged, then disconnect power, wait about  3-5 mins and see what the battery life is.  If it stays in the 6-7 hr range for you a 2010 i7, then the drive is probably spinning down.  If it's not, you'll probably see about only 3-3.5 remaining on a seemingly full charge.

In my case with a late 2008 unibody, on SD 24, a full charge shows a 2:00 or so remaining immediately on a power disconnect on full charge.  When it was on SD22, it was a hair over 4:00.  When I switched back to the original 7200 drive, it went back to about 4:10 ish.  (Yes, I actually get those numbers... I use the machine on a plane all the time, most recently yesterday.)

I so hope they fix it this time... Really trying to not drop the $ on a real SSD.

But thanks krisdk for sharing

---

I have now worked 3 hours on the laptop (with skype open: has a notorius bug that prevents the INTEL GPU switch. that means I have been running on the NVIDIA GPU) the battery says 1:36 hours left 36% remaining charge! This is way better than SD24!

Im still not convinced that the drive spins down.... but it also set to 10 mins by default (pmset -g disksleep) ... And as I don't smoke I have not left the computer yet ;o)

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actually chrome has the same GPU switch bug.... so both SKype and Chrome was running this entire time. But how can you live without chrome???

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1109460

so, if you unplug fully charged, and not have anything running, how much time/charge does it show after a 10-11 min?  if it's not spinning down, i think you will see the charge drop right before your eyes!

thanks!

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[Aleksanerkk]

Hello!

I also have Seagate Momentus XT, and all the problems described in other topics also exist in my case (freezes, 'beachballing', weak performance of the drive)

I have installed it in MacBook Pro 3,1 with 4GB of RAM (Corsair).

The most frequent problem is that time-to-time my system freezes and 'beachball' comes out for around 30-60s, and it makes my computer unusable.

I have upgraded firmware in my HDD to SD24 via Bootcamp (Windows 7) and the problem still exists.

I hope that SD25 will solve this issue, I cross my fingers!

Please Seagate - do not leave your users alone!!

[keeper]

Also have these Problems.. Have a clevo x7200

Use 500 gb momentus xt for about 3 months. Beeps from beginning use the drive. Freeze and so on at the last 2 weeks.

Also seen. Some partitions i can use some not and if i it freeze.

Also look forward to SD25

[STX_NB]

Hi Kris,

Glad to hear about the speed and no noticable beeps and hiccups so far! We are anxiously waiting for more info from all the testers.

I have a few more requests for drives so I'll go ahead and send out a few more but if all stays good then we'll move forward with posting the new firmware next week.  Our lead engineer wants more data - just like an engineer eh?   He's just looking out for you guys.

j