| Momentus 7200.4 laptop hard drives deliver industry leading 7200-RPM performance with environmentally responsible low power consumption. The drives are available with G-Force Protection technology for added robustness and durability. The technology senses when the drive is in free-fall and quickly protects against shock damage by moving the heads off the disk. With capacities from 160GB to 500GB, 16 MB cache and 3 Gb/s SATA with NCQ, the Momentus 7200.4 hard drive is perfect for performance and mainstream laptops, workstations and smallform-factor desktop systems.Seagate Technology, a leader in storage, is dedicated to building products that meet the needs of the consumer and integrator, allowing them to build solutions that are state of the art, maximizing useful system life. Seagate also works hand in hand with major technology players to develop new platforms and interfaces for system builders. Unlike many competitors, Seagate takes a leadership role, as well as learning from our customers, to develop the future of storage and what it means to computing. |
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 Seagate Momentus 7200.4 |
| Review Date: September 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Adel Sabry Elkhouly, |
I was really worried to buy this drive cause of the reviews I read, but I bought it because of the reputation of seagate, as my old drive was seagate momentus too but 160 GB, I did replace it with this 500 GB model, and found no Vibration as many people claimed, the same as Hitachi, western Digital.
I ordered two hard drives
Installed the first in a Macbook Pro 17" 2.4 GHz SR, everything is perfect. I am not sure about the battery life after replacing the drive as I did upgrade the OS to snow leopard afterwords so I can't judge the battery level fairly.
The second drive did install it in a White Macbook 2.4 Ghz, to replace a 5400rpm 160 GB Hitachi, there is a real significant difference between the old Hitachi, and this drive for sure, the Macbook is really flying now, boot times are faster, and applications load fast too. The over All performance did boast I guess 40% more.
White Macbook:
Vibration: No
Speed: Yes
Battery consumption: Yes, the battery don't last as the 5400 Hitachi
Worth Upgrade: yes 100 %
Macbook Pro:
Vibration: No
Speed: Yes
Battery consumption: Yes, the battery don't last as the 7200 160 GB Momentus
Worth Upgrade: yes 100 %
I do recommend this product |
Dan
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| Review Date: July 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Art Samson, DE, USA |
| I bought this hard drive to put in my 13 inch macbook pro. I had read a few reviews from people that found the hard drive too noisy, or had it vibrate a lot. I have had no problems at all. It's as quiet as the previous hard drive (I can't hear it even when it's going full speed unless I put my ear right down to the computer), and doesn't vibrate at all. It works great! And it sped up my computer a bit too. All around good drive. Definitely recommend! |
One of the Most Effective Ways to Boost Your Laptop's Speed
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| Review Date: August 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Ray, |
If you own a laptop that is not operating up to your wishes, and you've already loaded up with RAM and defragmentated the hard drive, chances are that the performance deficit you are experiencing is simply the limitations of a 5400rpm drive, undoubtedly the type that came with your system. An easy (and now, inexpensive) way to significantly boost the speed of the system is simply to replace your 5400rpm drive with a faster, 7200rpm model. This used to be an expensive proposition, but now has become exceptionally affordable.
This particular Seagate model is especially good for upgrading an existing laptop for a number of reasons. First, as mentioned above, this is a 7200rpm drive, which all by itself offers a significant performance boost over the standard 5400rpm versions used in most all stock laptops. Second, the drive is a SATA 3.0Gb model, which means that the theoretical upper threshold for data transfer is exceptionally high (although in real life these values are almost never achieved). In addition, this particular model employs native command queuing, a hardware based performance feature which is not found on all such drives.
At about $60, this is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to boost a laptop's overall performance. Don't expect miracles, but depending on the drive you are replacing, you may see quite a change in system responsiveness, particularly in disk intensive operations. The easiest way to perform the change is to use a disk imaging program to save a "snapshot" of the entire disk, remove the old disk , install the new drive, and then copy the saved image back to the new drive. Good luck!
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One of the Most Effective Ways to Boost Your Laptops's Speed
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| Review Date: August 4, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Ray, |
If you own a laptop that is not operating up to your expectations, and you've already loaded up with RAM and defragmentated the hard drive, chances are that the performance deficit you are experiencing is simply the limitations of a 5400rpm drive, undoubtedly the type that came with your system. An easy (and now, inexpensive) way to significantly boost the speed of the system is simply to replace your 5400rpm drive with a faster, 7200rpm model. This used to be an expensive proposition, but now has become exceptionally affordable.
This particular Seagate model is especially good for upgrading an existing laptop for a number of reasons. First, as mentioned above, this is a 7200rpm drive, which all by itself offers a significant performance boost over the standard 5400rpm versions used in most all stock laptops. Second, the drive is a SATA 3.0Gb model, which means that the theoretical upper threshold for data transfer is exceptionally high (although in real life these values are almost never achieved). In addition, this particular model employs native command queuing, a hardware based performance feature which is not found on all such drives.
At about $60, this is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to boost a laptop's overall performance. Don't expect miracles, but depending on the drive you are replacing, you may see quite a change in system responsiveness, particularly in disk intensive operations. The easiest way to perform the change is to use a disk imaging program to save a "snapshot" of the entire disk, remove the old disk , install the new drive, and then copy the saved image back to the new drive. Good luck!
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Great MacBook Pro HD replacement
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| Review Date: September 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Reddogg, Califronia |
| I installed this hard drive with Snow Leopard on my early 2007 MacBook Pro. I love the speed on the 7200 RPM. The old 5400 took 34 minutes to copy my iTunes library to my external. THe new 7200 RPM drive took 18 minutes to copy back. The drive is quite... in fact I never hear except on initial boot up. I can not comment on how it effects battery life since my laptop is always plugged in. |
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