Thread: Seagate Momentus 7200.4

reviously we've reviewed the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 notebook hard drive, this month around, we got the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 which is also a notebook hard drive, but the difference here is that, the first has a spindle speed of 5400 rpm and an 8 MB cache, whereas the second has a spindle speed of 7200 rpm and 16 MB cache.The capacity of this particular Momentus 7200.4 is 500 GB and has 200 a two platter design.

The thing that really grabbed our attention here was the fact that Momentus 5400.6 outperformed the 7200.4 in most of our tests. As you can see, the file transfer test results show the Momentus 5400.6 being faster, even though the synthetic benchmarks HD Tach and SiSoft Sandra show the results that the 7200.4 has better read speeds than the 5400.6. The only benchmarks where the Momentus 7200.4 did better than the 5400.6 was with the internal file copy test.


The thing about the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 is that with its spindle speed, you will tend to feel the vibration than what you would with a 5400 rpm hard drive if fitted into a laptop with a compact chassis. But if you were to use this on something like an Dell Studio XPS, then these vibrations wouldn't be that noticeable.