Testseek.com 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
(84%)
96 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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....
22% Faster than 10,000RPM WD VelociRaptor, Outstanding price to performance value, Extremelyhigh HDD operational shock durability, Adaptive Memory tech offers SSDlike responsiveness, 5Year full Seagate product warranty, Up to 500GB of storage capacity, Supports Native Command Queuing and SMART, Extremely high HDD operational shock,
Lacks SSDlike IOPS operational performance, Not 3rdGeneration SATA6.0 compliant, Unimpressive bandwidth for the World's first SSD Hybrid
Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure that all a...
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 ...
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...
Abstract: Seagates neues Hybrid-Laufwerk kombiniert bis zu 500GB herkömmlichen Speicher mit 4GB Flash-Memory für maximale Performance. Wir haben das ganze auf unserem Speicher-Testsystem und auf einem Notebook getestet. Die Idee ist nicht gerade neu: Warum nicht...
The Seagate Momentus XT offers excellent performance at a price that's significantly lower than solid state drives (SSDs). It offers a larger capacity than SSDs and comes with a generous five-year warranty
When compared with traditional hard drives, the Momentus XT is more expensive and currently caps at 500GB. The drive doesn't support the new SATA 6Gbps data transfer rate
The Momentus XT is an excellent replacement for traditional laptop hard drives. It offers large capacities and SSD-like performance at a fraction of the cost.
Abstract: Whether you're buying storage for a laptop or for a desktop, your choice for a while has been limited to hard drives (inexpensive, lots of capacity, relatively slow) or solid-state drives (expensive, limited capacity, super-fast). Desktop users could s...
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, looki...
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 ...
