Storage Solutions Seagate Momentus XT

[Crazy_Eddy]

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Quick specs:

500GB / 320GB / 250GB

4GB SLC NAND cache

2.5" form factor

7200 rpm

SATA 3Gb/s NCQ

MSRP (USD) : 156$ / 132$ / 113$

(JFYI, Newegg pricing when I checked was about 130$ for the 500GB variant)

Good to see someone taking Hybrid drives seriously again after the earlier flop

Oddly enough, the Anandtech review is a thumbs up for the drive, while the THG review seems to show it in poor light. What gives?

Agree with Anand's conclusion.. Desktop users might have better options, *but* the one place this drive will find very good acceptance is in a single-bay laptop. When looking for performance options on a laptop, up until now its only been SSDs with pretty stingy capacities. This should help even things out.

Crossing fingers and hoping Seagate gets this to India (and at a good price too!).

 

[DarkAngel]

Yup read the review couple of days back and i would also go with Anand's conclusion (He has such knowledge about SSD's and testing methods, i would say he has got this one right too).

For laptops which have only one HDD bay and need a speed+storage this seems a very good alternative.

The 500GB version costs only $130. Only if laptop manufacturers offer this HDD as a customization option (Common Dell offer this too in the custom options)

 

[YoGi-Sama]

I have this strong itch to get one this and slap in my macbook.... the performance is seriously good for the price.

 

[Gannu]

This drive should probably bridge the gap between the SSD and say a high performance 7200rpm drive like the WD Black. Cheaper than the raptors as well. So long as the SATA3 SSD drives show up, this should be a good buy.

 

[stalker]

This drive should probably bridge the gap between the SSD and say a high performance 7200rpm drive like the WD Black. Cheaper than the raptors as well. So long as the SATA3 SSD drives show up, this should be a good buy.

Just fyi, these are 2.5" formfactor Momentus drives. They have a completely different target audience as compared to the Raptors.

 

[Gannu]

I wonder why would someone ATM would want to invest in raptors still. The capacity of a raptor probably is a moot point since the most warranted applications could hardly fill up a SSD of say 80gigs capacity?

Not to mention the intense heat dissipated by the raptors!

Just fyi, these are 2.5" formfactor Momentus drives.

O RLY? :bleh:

 

[guru]

is this in India yet ? I have friend coming US and was planning to get this for the laptop. I prefer to stuff like HDD's from here tho.

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