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Testing The Momentus!
To test the performance of the Seagate 120GB Momentus 5400.2 hard disk, we turned to the venerable Disk WinBench 99 Version 2.0 as well as HDTach 3.010.
The Test Bed
|
Processor |
1.60GHz Intel Pentium
M 725 (Dothan) |
|
Chipset |
Intel i855PM |
|
Memory |
1GB Kingston PC2700
DDR SDRAM |
|
Graphics
Processor |
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 |
|
Graphics
Driver |
ATI Catalyst Ver. 4.9 |
|
Graphics
Memory |
64MB DDR SDRAM |
|
Graphics
Bus |
AGP 4X |
|
Hard
Disk |
120GB Seagate Momentus
5400.2 5400 RPM hard disk 40GB Fujitsu MHT2040AT 4200 RPM hard disk |
WinBench 99 Version 2.0
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There appears to be about 32 different density zones. The outermost zone is about 10GB-wide and allows the maximum platter transfer rate of 41.4MB/s. The lowest transfer rate is naturally seen at the last track, at 23.3MB/s.
The graph is pretty smooth, with no large dips in transfer rate that may suggest the use of replacement sectors. So, the platter quality appears to be very good.
Here are the rest of the results :-
| Business Disk WinMark 99 | 6,820 KB/s |
| High-End Disk WinMark 99 | 19,900
KB/s |
| Disk Access Time | 16.5 ms |
| CPU Utilization (64KB blocks, maximum transfer rate) |
0 % * |
* Evidently, CPU utilization cannot be so low.
