

In fact, in my trial, it was about as slow as a regular 5,400rpm drive. This means that the new drive is slower at data transferring, such as when copying a large amount of data from one drive to another, or from one place to another within itself. The first difference is the drive's spinning speed, which is now only 5,400rpm, as opposed to the Momentus drives' 7,200rpm. On the other hand, the Laptop Thin SSHD is also quite different from the previous generation of Seagate hybrid drives.


This proved to be trued in my testing, the test machine's boot time only improved (taking much shorter time) starting with the second boot. For example, once you have replaced a computer's hard drive with a Seagate SSHD, the first boot time might not show any difference at all. By design, AMT has to "learn" the patterns in which someone uses a computer and improvement is only observable in the subsequent times the same task is being executed.
