Description

Seagate 500GB Thin Laptop Internal Hard Disk [ST500LT012]

The professional hard drive analysis website UserBenchmark concludes some results. The average benchmark of Seagate Momentus Thin st500lt012 1dg142 is 59.6% lower than the average hard drive benchmark.

It has an average consistency. The range of scores (95th – 5th percentile) for the Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5″ 500GB is 48.7%, which is a relatively wide range. That indicates the Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5″ 500GB performs inconsistently under varying actual conditions.

Its sequential mixed IO speed is only 38.2MB/s, while the 4k random write speed is 0.67MB/s. This is not good enough compared with other similar hard drives. In fact, this is a weakness of the drive. However, it works well in other aspects. For instance, its average 4k random mixed IO speed reaches 0.5MB/s and the average sequential read speed reaches 75.8MB/s.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Device type: internal hard drive
• Bytes per sector: 4096Hz
• Buffer-host max. rate: 300MB per seconds
• Buffer size: 16MB
• Drive ready time (typical): 3 seconds
• Width: 69.85mm (2.75inch)
• Depth: 100.35mm (3.95inch)
• Height: 7mm (0.28inch)
• Weight: 95grams (0.21 pounds)