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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Not too pricey
Roomy
Decent performance gains
Inexpensive
High capacities
Performance boosts
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
A far more reasonably priced option than an SSD
Improved performance over standard hard drives
Good Value
Excellent Performance
SSD-Like Performance
HD-Like Price
OS Independent
Faster than traditional spinning drives. Much less expensive than SSDs. Five-year warranty.
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
Adaptive Memory Technology
Large Storage capacity
Price VS SSD Price
2.5 Inch Form Factor
Better Performance as the drive learns your habits.
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
Abstract: Momentus XT solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) fuse the blazing speed of SSD with the high capacity of a hard drive. Powered by Seagate Adaptive Memory™ technology, SSHD dramatically improves boot times and application speed, unleashing your system's perfor...
The result of this roundup is that due to the various hardware configurations each Hybrid solution is created for, there is no clear winner. The RevoDrive Hybrid dominates the field, but can only be installed into a desktop class machine. The Seagate Mome...
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...
