Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS Review

Testing:

HD Tune 3.50 Pro measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers. In the 3.50 Pro version, the user can measure not only drive performance as a whole, but more precise file benchmarks, and a random access benchmark as well.

Benchmark:

File Benchmark:

Random Access Benchmark:

The Momentus XT just blows away the traditional Seagate 3.5" drive and bridges the gap between mechanical and solid state drives. In a few of the tests, the RAID 0 setup of the Momentus XT drives beat out some of the solid state drives.