5/19/2023 0 Comments Seagate firmware updater![]() This startup time is where the lag associated with some hard drives is found, since unlike an SSD, platter-based drives can’t restart instantly. This effectively turns the hard drive off until another command tells the drive to spin back up quickly again to resume work. With hard drives you can improve efficiencies with the motor and controller interface, but the biggest power savings is going from idle to a spun-down state. This includes everyone from hard drive manufacturers to the guys that make wireless cards, all in the hopes to increase battery life by another few minutes. The notebook market has both system and component manufacturers at all ends of the spectrum looking for ways to save power. Today we look at the latest firmware patch, dubbed SD24 for the Momentus XT, which helps fixes this drive’s most complained about flaw lag associated with spinning down too quickly at idle. While offering a very good mixture of performance and capacity, which can be crucial in single drive notebook configurations, there were limitations like fast spin-down times and the small cache size that many hoped would be fixed or improved. Since that time it has remained the one and only drive in the hybrid drive category and gained a ton of popularity in the enthusiast market. ![]() Today we look at the latest firmware patch, dubbed SD24 for the Momentus XT, which helps fixes this drive’s most complained about flaw lag associated with spinning down too quickly at idle.Īlmost a year ago we reviewed the first hybrid SSD/HDD (well, first in a long time) the Seagate Momentus XT. ![]() Almost a year ago we reviewed the first hybrid SSD/HDD (well, first in a long time) the Seagate Momentus XT.
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