Seagate Momentus 7200.4

Seagate Momentus 7200.4

The Seagate Momentus, for the uninitiated, is a family of 2.5? hard drives representing a broad range of capacity and features. This Seagate Momentus represents the cream of the crop; a 7200-RPM drive boasting a whopping half-terabyte of capacity. Despite this, the asking price is surprisingly moderate. The drive came to us in minimal OEM packaging (an excellent cost-saving method; you’re just going to throw the glossy box away, aren’t you?) consisting of a crush-resistant plastic carton and a heat-sealed static-proof baggie. Now what we have here is a very nice Macbook Pro that’s becoming a little long in the tooth. It is a late 2007 revision, top of the line for its time, but it’s beginning to show its age – many of its components are now found on mid-grade machines (cheap junk will always remain cheap junk) and … well, it still plays Crysis but wow the load times. Whatever can we do? Canonically, the easy upgrade for Macs is ‘more ram’. The operating system has a long history of being heavily memory dependent, and system performance can either be massively increased or degraded by memory, and whether you have enough of it.