Testseek.co.uk have collected 96 expert reviews of the Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid SATA300 ST9-AS Series and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid SATA300 ST9-AS Series.
May 2010
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The editors liked
Excellent performance for a 2.5" drive
Excellent performance overall when repeatedly using the same small files
Value for money
Almost desktop drive performance
Excellent performance at a significantly lower price than solidstate drives (SSDs)
Larger capacity than SSDs
Generous fiveyear warranty
The editors didn't like
4 GB isn't much for the SSD part
Performance improvement limited to two or three pieces of software
Not quite SSD performance, does not run nearly as cool as an SSD
If you're anything like me, you may be dying to jump on the SSD bandwagon, except you don't want to downgrade your capacity, and you don't want to pay $500++ for an equivalent capacity. The Seagate Momentus XT is the perfect hard drive to hold you ove...
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Published: 2010-12-29, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: Right now the storage story is either SSD or HDD. There are those who moved towards SSD for performance gain. But there's still a significant population (and its growing even more) that buys mechanical hard drives for the storage space and value with reli...
Fast operating system startup and shutdown times, Fast application loading, Large capacity for a 2.5 inch drive, Low cost per Gigabyte compared to an SSD, Whisper quiet operation
Not as robust as an SSD.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe Momentus XT hybrid drive offers very good value, with great performance, and storage capacity. It is really quite remarkable how fast this little drive is at...
The idea behind Hybrid SSD/Mechanical drives is very sound. Enthusiasts already prefer to install a standard SSD for OS and data purposes while also installing a large mechanical drive to keep the majority of their stuff stored. For the most part, the...
Abstract: Klaus Hinum, 10/14/2010 After the unsuccessful attempts to combine hard drives with flash memory in 2007, Seagate is now trying again with the Momentus XT series. This time, a substantially larger and faster memory in combination with its own control...
Great performance comparing to SSD drives, Highly affordable, Adaptive Memory technology,
None that we could find.
Just by looking at our test data you can clearly see who is the winner. You got it the SSD however, considering the performance of Momentus XT and price per storage Momentus XT becomes a clear winner among the consumer. Consumer who doesn't want to spe...
The Seagate Momentus XT 500GB is an interesting integration of flash and mechanical storage. It is certainly a very fast drive, but it in most cases its performance is closer to that of a traditional 7200 RPM hard drive than a solid state drive. As fo...
Representing a new generation of hybrid storage devices, the Seagate Momentus XT is quite an interesting product. Seagate has got rid of older problems that used to pester its previous series and now its 2.5-inch drive is indeed competitive to rather s...
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Published: 2010-08-09, Author: Darren , review by: engadget.com
Published: 2010-07-22, Author: Chris , review by: slashgear.com
Abstract: As storage goes, the choices for your new drive have generally been pretty straightforward. On the one side there are traditional HDDs, mechanical drives offering plentiful capacity but with performance and ruggedness compromises; on the other, there a...
