Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB Notebook Hard Drive

SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. Sandra provides most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. In order to test the hard drive SiSoftware Sandra 2009 SP3 was used as part of the test suite. The graphical results that Sandra gives you after the test is completed nicely shows how drives perform over time and where on the drive the performance is seen.

READ Performance Testing:

WRITE Performance Testing:

Benchmark Results: The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 was found to have an average read score of 84.098MB/s with a write score of 61.534MB/s.

Comparison Chart: When comparing the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB to other popular hard drives like the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB and the Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320 GB, it does roughly better in the write tests, but was actually slightly slower than the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB in the average write test.