Using a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD to boost performance on a Dynamics AX 2012 presentation laptop
3. December 2011 Leave a comment
Momentus XT is a hybrid HDD that combines a 7200rpm drive with a large SSD cache. I’ve bought one to run a Dynamics AX 2012 presentation laptop. By design the performance is getting better for frequent tasks. Here are my results:
Testcases:
- Boot Windows Server 2008 R2 until STRG+ALT+DEL screen appears
- Start Dynamics AX client and wait until role center has finished loading and rendering reports
- Post a sales order confirmation with 20 lines
Laptop: HP 8540w Mobile Workstation, 8GB RAM, Core i7 2,8GHz
Software: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Dynamics AX 2012 CU1, SQL Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Portal with SharePoint Server 2010
| HDD | XT #1 | XT #2 | XT #3 | XT #4 | XT #5 | |
| Boot | 03:05 | 03:13 | 02:36 | 01:48 | 01:54 | 01:46 |
| Start AX | 00:51 | 00:40 | 00:31 | 00:18 | 00:17 | 00:18 |
| Confirmation | 02:30 | 01:40 | 00:59 | 00:59 | 01:07 | 00:59 |
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