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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The editors liked
Very fast performance
Adaptive Memory technology
Speed improvement upon daily usage tasks
Better price/capacity ratio than SSDs
The editors didn't like
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Not all usage scenarios will benefit from the "hybridness"
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
