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: Consider the plight of Seagate, the PC storage maker. The industry is shifting radically from Hard Disk Drive technology to Solid State Drives (SSDs), where competitors include powerhouses such as Intel and Samsung, and it just lost its first-place mar...
Abstract: A few years ago it seemed as if Hybrid Hard Drives were the future. Yet after a bunch of announcements and hope today we find ourselves in a world with two distinct markets: HDDs and SSDs. If you're willing to pay the price premium and limit maximum c...
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!...
