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
The Momentus XT wasn't quite what I was expecting from hybrid hard drive. Sure, it combines mechanical platters with flash memory, but Adaptive Memory is a much more one-sided approach than the old ReadyDrive hybrid scheme introduced with Windows Vista...
The Momentus ® XT is an ideal replacement drive for your high-end laptop or small form factor PC or even a external portable drive for those large file transfers with quick transfer speeds. The price point for the Seagate® Momentus XT is very attract...
Faster than traditional spinning drives. Much less expensive than SSDs. Five-year warranty.
More expensive than spinning drives at the same capacities. Does not currently support 6-Gbps SATA.
Combining the best parts of hard drive and SSD technology, the 2.5-inch Momentus XT is an inventive way to speed up your storage without breaking the bank....
Adaptive Memory Technology, Large Storage capacity, Price VS SSD Price, 2.5 Inch Form Factor, Better Performance as the drive learns your habits.
Price VS other 500GB Drives
The Seagate Momentus XT provides a real alternative to expensive (and small) SSD's. You aren't going to get the blazing speed of a good SSD but you don't trade wads of cash for a Momentus XT and you don't have to compromise on storage space. We saw mo...
Abstract: Seagate announced earlier today the release of the new Momentus XT hybrid SSD drive. Combining the low price of a traditional mechanical drive with the speed of an SSD. HardwareGeeks was able to play with the drive before release and write up a review ...
There are two ways of looking at Seagate’s new Momentus XT. If you know that the drive pairs rotating storage with 4GB of SLC NAND flash memory, then you probably expect a lot from this new product. I have to admit that this happened to us. However, lo...
The Seagate Momentus XT is an excellent notebook hard drive and under the right circumstances surpasses drives well out of its class. The 4GB of cache helps to significantly improve the access of common read/write patterns that a user might see in t...
The Seagate Momentus XT is the first Hybrid drive that nicely blends an SSD and HDD together to create a drive that performs well and won't empty your pocket book!...
It's been a very interesting review testing and living with the Seagate Momentus XT. It has a 7200RPM, 32MB Cache mechanical drive coupled with a fast 4GB SLC Nand Flash mirror. It's not going to win any overall speed awards against an SSD, so if you ...
If you have just one drive slot, this may be the drive to have, Excellent balance of performance, capacity, and price, High performance drive before adding a 4GB SSD: 7200RPM, SATA 3 Gbps, 32MB cache, Adaptive memory can provide significant performance boost for common tasks, 5-year warranty, Capacity that SSDs can't touch without costing a fortune, 60GB MLC SSD costs about the same as the 500GB
Far more expensive than other 500GB, 7200RPM 2.5" drives, High access times
Most notebook computers include just one bay for a hard drive, so you obviously need your boot drive to also handle your storage needs. This has meant that you either had to compromise on performance or capacity when choosing between an SSD and a trad...
