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
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96 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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...
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...
Good Value, Excellent Performance, SSD-Like Performance, HD-Like Price, OS Independent
Solid State Storage Not Always Used, Largest Drive "Only" 500GB
Although our benchmarks tell an interesting story, there is still a little more to discuss. Prior to evaluating the retail-ready version of the Momentus XT featured in this article, we had the opportunity to experiment with an alpha version of the drive...
Hybrid design with SLC SSD and high capacity HDD, Seagate Adaptive Memory Technology, Up to 500GB capacities, inexpensive compared to SSD's, Faster than traditional mechanical drives, RAID 0 performance is on par with SSD's...
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The Seagate Momentus XT has been dubbed around the net as a SSD killer. Would I call it that? No, but what I would call it an HDD killer. The Momentus XT beats out traditional hard drives in just about every test. This drive is the perfect stepping st...
I love innovation. Where most companies are trying to improve on an existing idea, Seagate is bringing new ideas to the market. The Solid State Hybrid (SSH) is exactly what we need right now. The Momentus XT greatly improves on the typical laptop h...
When the Hybrid Momentus XT debuted in May, we were very impressed with the drive. The drive performed better then we expected and with a price that was way below the cost of an SSD. Today, we looked at two hybrids in RAID and were equally impressed...
