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
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Unlike certain emerging technology segments, true innovation it hard to come by in mature markets like the one Momentus XT series plays in. Hard drive technology really hasn’t changed all that much for some time but Seagate has designed a product that ...
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...
