Seagate Momentus 5400.3 PSD SATA, Product Manual

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Momentus 5400.3 PSD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3
Provide power savings and battery life
NVC decreases power consumption by reducing the amount of time the discs are spinning in the HDA.
Improve reliability
Shock and vibration impacts during writes is negligible when writing to NVC memory. This results in an overall
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of less than 0.50%.
Reduced acoustics
Reads and writes from NVC memory may occur without the acoustic impact of spinning media and actuator
movement.