MacBook Pro :: Seagate Momentus XT Vs WD Scorpio Black?

Jun 14, 2012

I want to upgrade the HDD in my Macbook Pro 2010 that currently has the stock 5400 250Gb drive in it. I am torn between the Momentus XT 500GB version, which is on sale at newegg right now for like 69, or going with the Scorpio Black. The differences that have me stuck is the 32 vs 16 cache, as well has the added speed of the seagate compared to the laundry list of problems people have reported with the XT. This will be my first HDD upgrade, and was looking for a little direction.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Jan 16, 2009

I'm aware that there are probably a dozen of these threads around in the forums, but if you have the time to tell me to search it up, then you have the time to answer my question. I am fully aware that this may void my MBP's warranty. I've decided to go with either the 500gb 5400rpm WD or Seagate. I'm just wondering which drive is more reliable and faster. Also, when installing the hard drive, is it ok to use a magnetic screw driver. Someone told me that there's an application called Superduper. It clones the original hard drive to make the upgrade easier. Is this a good application, or are there better options?

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Vibration /noise issues on the scorpio black 7200rpm sway me towards the scorpio blue 500gb as well.

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Dec 2, 2010

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As I was about to purchase a new 512GB SSD, the reseller informed me that I should try the Seagate drive referenced above. He said that it would work in the MBA with no problem. The price difference is huge. Axiom SSD = $1500, Momentus Hybrid SSD = $120. I'm not concerned about speed. I'm just tired of carrying my itunes library on an external USB drive.

I love the new MBA. I just need more disk space in the unit. Here's a link to the drive in question: [URL]

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Feb 7, 2010

My MacBook Pro (mid 2009, 15", 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM) with original Hitachi 250GB HDD (Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02) does hibernate when I close the lid and hibernatemode is set to 1.

When I replace the HHD with a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB (ST9500420AS), the MacBook does only sleep but not hibernate (hibernatemode is still set to 1).

Even if battery runs out of power, the macbook does not hibernate and after getting back to power it has to boot.

I backuped from the new HDD, switched back to the original HDD, restored the backup and hibernate does work again!

So, why does my macbook not hibernate with the Seagate Momentus 7200.4? Does the drive need to much power? does the macbook need to know how much power a drive will need?

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Jul 7, 2010

I just replaced a 5400 rpm 320 Gb Western Digital (not the stock drive) with a Momentus XT in my late 2007 MBP, and I couldn't be more impressed. The eternal beach balls are gone. Granted, I've never had an SSD, but the speed boost from this thing is unbelievable. I didn't even do a clean install, just a restore from Time Machine. I didn't do formal benchmarks, but I did time my boot sequence before and after:

Old Drive
Chime to Login Screen: 46 seconds
Chime to launch Safari and open web page: 2:58

Momentus XT
Chime to Login Screen: 22 seconds
Chime to launch Safari and open web page: 38 seconds

So, the new drive can boot and open a web page faster than the old drive could get to the login screen. Altogether 2 minutes and 20 seconds faster. Not that I reboot very often, but it gives you some idea of how much faster everything is. I was so fed up with how slow my MBP was that I almost bought a new MBP for $2000, then I almost bought a 200 Gb SSD that wouldn't have had enough space for $340 (would have had to also buy an optibay and worry about losing hibernation or shock protection). So glad I just spent $130 and got a huge performance boost for very little money or hassle.

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Aug 1, 2010

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May 10, 2012

I have a 2011 macbook pro (8,1) and in january 2012 I replaced the OEM drive with a momentus XT.  I can report that the drive makes a BIG difference in performance. However, the drive failed with bad sectors within a week of installation. I got a warranty replacement, and that drive also failed within a couple weeks.

I got a second warranty replacement, and that drive failed after about a month.

I am currently awaiting my third warranty replacement drive! 

All of the failures were the same mode - bad blocks after a fairly short period of use.

I used SMART Utility to detect the problem - typically the disk itself did not flag a SMART error (so does not show up in Disk Utility) but my utility detected the problem and the SMART self tests fail.  In all cases these drives were eligible for replacement via SeaTools test.  These drives also caused IO errors which showed up in the system log, and the evil pinwheel cursor of impending doom. 

So my question to the community is: if anyone out there is using these drives, have you had these problems?

If you have one of these drives I recommend using SMART Utility or other SMART monitoring software to check your drive. 

I know seagate is not known for reliability these days, but three drive failures in a row is a little ridiculous!  ... so I'm concerned that there is some bad interaction with the mac.  The only other thing I can think of is bad yields related to the thailand floods - all of these drives were dated around Oct 2011. 

I've searched around a bit but I haven't seen anyone reporting problems.

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Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook :: Unable To Boot From Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB ?

Jul 22, 2009

Just got a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB to install in a white MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz. The MacBook can read, write, and format the drive (connected as a USB external) with no problem. It can't seem to boot from it or install OS X to the drive.

I've tried:

1) cloning the current drive using disk utility's restore option while booted from a 10.5 install disk--Seagate drive will not boot after clone even though the MacBook sees it as a boot device when looking at the startup disk options while booted from the 10.5 disk.

2) Time Machine restore to the Seagate drive--fails every time with a long error log.

3) Clean install to the Seagate drive with a retail 10.5 install disk--install fails every time.

The drive could just be defective but I've seen a lot of defective drives and it doesn't feel like that's the case. I haven't run any hardware tests on the drive. (Anyone know if an Intel Mac will boot Seatools?)

Anyone else have any experience with the Seagate Momentus in an older Core 2 MacBook? I seem to vaguely recall reading on Apple's store page around the time I bought the MacBook that the max HDD supported was a 320GB (a size that at the time was larger than anything available to consumers). Not sure if that is the case or not.

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MacBook Pro :: 15" I7 4GB And Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Speed Tests

Jun 1, 2010

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I received my 500GB Seagate Momentus XT yesterday and ran some quick and crude benchmarks that I thought I'd share with you guys in case anyone else was thinking of upgrading. Here are my observations.

With Factory Seagate 7200rpm 500GB Drive:
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Time to boot measured from hitting the power button to when the finder toolbar appeared at the top averaged approximately 40s to 45s.

Running Photoshop CS5 immedately after reboot took approximately 10s.

The above two tests were repeated about 4 or 5 times and were fairly consistent.


With new Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive:
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Time to boot measured from hitting the power button to when the finder toolbar appeared at the top averaged approximately 30s.

Running Photoshop CS5 immedately after reboot took approximately 3s to 5s.

The above two tests were repeated 4 times (sorry I ran out of time to run more) and as expected the first attempt was a little slower than subsequent tests. The times listed above represent the times I was getting after the first reboot.


All in all i'm happy with the improvement, especially when i consider the fact that I still get my 500GB capacity. I wanted an SSD but couldn't bring myself to fork out the money to get a drive with enough capacity to meet my needs.

If you have any questions or want me to run specific tests let me know. Not sure about running battery life tests since my battery-o-meter is all over the place telling me i have anywhere between 2 hours and 8 hours of battery life depending on what i'm doing at any given moment

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Apr 22, 2012

I installed a Momentus XT 750 (ST750LX003-1AC154  firmware SM12) into my MacBook Pro (late 2009).  I then did a full clean install of OSX 10.7 and updated to 10.7.3.  Lately I have been getting odd hangs of applications and eventually the OS, finally I have to hard-power it down and reboot. 

No SMART errors reported, PRAM and SMC have been reset.  I am on the latest firmware and EFI for this particular MacBook Pro.   I do not think that this drive is spinning down if idle. 

As far as I know there is not a firmware update for the XT 750 drive and I am on SM12.  

What else can I try to get this machine stable?  This is a 750GB hybrid SSD drive and I read about lots of issues with SSD and hybrid-SSD drives in previous generation MacBook Pros, particularly with Lion.   

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), seagate momentus XT 750GB

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Jan 8, 2011

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Jul 21, 2010

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