Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS Review

Testing:

HD Tach v3.0.4.0: HD Tach is another hard drive benchmark utility, much like HD Tune. This benchmark will measure the average read speed, the random access time, and the amount of the CPU used during operation.

• Quick Test 8MB Zones

SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP3: SiSoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful.

Physical Disks

In the HD Tach tests, the Momentus XT again showed improvement over a standard mechanical drive. The burst speeds in single drive mode almost matched the SSD's and when in a RAID configuration, destroyed every comparison drive. For the Sandra tests, the same showed, with the Momentus XT bridging the gap between HDD and SDD.