Here is another notebook harddisk with 2.5 inch size try to be reviewed here. Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500 GB is a product by Seagate corps. with total capacity 500 GB.
There are many features inside this harddisk. 8 MB cache memory has been adopted by Seagate. G-Force protection also being used in this semi huge harddisk. This feature will protect the data from any shock or shake. To minimize the load or unload acoustic Seagate put a QuietStep technology also perpendicular recording and green features.
Overall performance of this product is good. On each benchmark test the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB resulted in very good result except on the access time which is 18.5 ms. Also the stability of this harddisk is not too good, on the HD Tune test, the transfer rate is slowing down.
This Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB is using SATA II interface that can be transfer 3 GB/s data. There are no additional tool or equipments inside the retail package. You can get this harddisk for about $110.
Here is the benchmark result of SEAGATE Momentus 5400.6 500 GB
| Transfer Rate Average (MB/s) | 63.5 |
| Access Time (ms) | 18.4 |
| CPU Usage (%) | 1.2 |
| Full load temp. max | 32 |
| PCMark04 HDD Test Suite | 5213 |
