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ST750LX003-1AC154 seagate momentus reduce my battery life

Hi guys,

I have a macbook white 2,4 Ghz with 8Ghz.

I used to have OSX mountain Lion installed on Western digital Scorpio blue 640 Gb but recently i bought the Seagate ST750LX003-1AC154 XT momentus hybride.

I did fresh install everything is working well execpt for the battery life of my macbook.

Before full charge capacity i got 6h time surfing internet, email, etc.. lite duty

NOW if i can reach 2h or 2,5h i am very happy!!!

So is it something normal to drain the battery life time so quickly?

I understand that performance are higher and i confirm that it is working well but it is dividing the battery life time by 3???

Do you have any recomendations, feed back?

Thanks a lot

Chris

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion, white and working perfectly!

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 8:15 PM

33 replies

Feb 4, 2013 2:24 PM in response to mac.heretic

It is not an article, it is an email from their technical support:

Unfortunately the 750 GB Momentus and the Mac have compatibility issues and sometimes this drive will not work well. A solution has not yet been found but it is constantly being worked on.

I would suggest to exchange the drive to a 500 GB Momentus with your original place of purchase. The 500 GB drive should be functioning without any issues.

Valush

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Mar 10, 2013 1:57 AM in response to Neneonline

I bought my Seagate momentus XT ST750LX003 in november and replaced my stock 5400 rpm drive the MBP early 2011 came with. It has worked flawlessly since then with SL 10.6.8, my battery life is exactly the same, i.e. 7 hrs 5 min (listening to music, typing in MS Word, wireless on, display at 50%). There is a slight vibration if I keep on my desk, not noticeable if i hold it in my lap. Overall, very pleased with the drive.

joey4364

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Apr 26, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Neneonline

Thanks for posting that technical support email ! That explains so much. I was having some really weird problems with this disk. I wanted it to replace a 500 GB spin-only disk that was working fine because of the reported speedup and the bigger size. WOOPS! What a waste of time. This is an EPIC FAIL for seagate. I had some good experiences with some of their drives in the past, but this is crazy. No mention on the support sites, unexplained lack of firmware update to fix this... And yet, I can properly interact with the hard drive when I put it in an external enclosure. This is 100% their problem! Plenty of other manufacturers have no problem making hard disks that work in Mac OS just fine. Like the non SeaGate disk I'm going to replace this one with right now...

ST750LX003-1AC154 seagate momentus reduce my battery life