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

[Mohannad]

Hi

Dears why the disk data transfer rate score is low only 5.9?!!

it's same score for my old HDD ...i know seagate better and it'e really better but why it's give me this low score?

plz see attach

 

[Cantbecanit]

The assesment is correct, they only rate 5.9, what you've mistaken is that these are still conventional HDD's with some SSD Nand installed to effectively make them an all in one Raid 0 solution, an out and out SSD will rate higher but these X's are more a HDD than an SSD, still a whole lot quicker than a solo HDD though.

[WiseDrive]

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Cantbecanit wrote:

The assesment is correct, they only rate 5.9, what you've mistaken is that these are still conventional HDD's with some SSD Nand installed to effectively make them an all in one Raid 0 solution, an out and out SSD will rate higher but these X's are more a HDD than an SSD, still a whole lot quicker than a solo HDD though.

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That is not quit a fair representation.

The benchmarks are developed to rate conventional HDDs but not SSDs and hybrids.

An SSD will record better --- but the Hybrids will not because the test is not duplicating actual conditions of use.

Therefore, ignroe the rating ---- the drives are visibly and obviously faster than an identically WEI rated drive.

Measure actual times for boot up, and common application tasks after the drive is conditioned and you will see.

[Cantbecanit]

Thats true Wisey, but that is the only way I can explain it to the guy, he's bought a drive he thinks will rate 7.9 in Windows assessment and can't understand why (well you wouldn't really would you in all fairness) but although as you say it's a fast drive, it still only gets rated on it's spinny side rather than the SSD side of things.

[WiseDrive]

The issue lies fairly and squarly at the foot of Seagate's marketing team.

The company could, and should, have take the lead in developing a fair set of benchmarks for their product --- and then making it open source under the GNU 2.0 license.

That way -- hybrids can be properly benched with methods that are legitimate, but techically sound.