Seagate Delivers World's Fastest Hard Drive For Laptop Computers, Momentus XT SSHDD

newtekie1 · May 24, 2010

erocker said:
I curious as to why they didn't go to SATA 6gbps. One would think it would have a benefit with such a HDD.

I don't see how it would be a benefit.

A 4GB SSD doesn't give nearly good enough read/write speeds to saturate SATA 3.0Gbps, I don't even think an 8GB SSD would, and the HDD part wouldn't come close either.

rockit00 · May 25, 2010

This momentus xt looks good in all the reviews and benchmarks that popped up online today! At $129. it looks like it would even make a decent desktop upgrade solution.

extrasalty · May 25, 2010

Frankly, I will never switch from SSD to this on my laptop, for the very reason I bought an SSD- shockproof and low power. While this is big, I have external drives for a lot less.
I don't have the exact numbers, but it seems that the SSD part will see a lot of wear for number of reasons.
For one - being a cache, which generally means ALL data will pass through it. So all the things to avoid for SSD (defrag,page file etc.) will probably apply to rotational drive.
Congratulations.
For two being so small gives the wear-leveling less room for dead cells (the reserved space is unknown too).
I think most of all Seagate is playing "the retail confusion game"- I can see how many moms and dads will buy it just because they saw SSD on the box.
Glad to see Seagate try at least, we'll see if they can fight Moore's Law.

pr0n Inspector · May 25, 2010

Hard drives do not understand files or even file systems. this drive will only move the frequently used data to the tiny SSD.

MrMilli · May 25, 2010

extrasalty said:
Frankly, I will never switch from SSD to this on my laptop, for the very reason I bought an SSD- shockproof and low power. While this is big, I have external drives for a lot less.
I don't have the exact numbers, but it seems that the SSD part will see a lot of wear for number of reasons.
For one - being a cache, which generally means ALL data will pass through it. So all the things to avoid for SSD (defrag,page file etc.) will probably apply to rotational drive.
Congratulations.
For two being so small gives the wear-leveling less room for dead cells (the reserved space is unknown too).
I think most of all Seagate is playing "the retail confusion game"- I can see how many moms and dads will buy it just because they saw SSD on the box.
Glad to see Seagate try at least, we'll see if they can fight Moore's Law.

Seagate is using SLC NAND (not MLC).
The issues you address concern MLC NAND.

I, for one, am pretty excited about this release. You get VelociRaptor-kind of performance for much less money. Two of these 500GB drives set you back for the same money as a cheap 128GB SSD. Put these in a 3.5" backplane and you've got yourself a big and fast 1TB storage for €280 (including the backplane). Apparently these also come with 5 years warranty.

Baum · May 30, 2010

please can we see a review from that momentus XT compared to traditional 2,5" HD with same Speed and rotational Speed? ++++ POWERCONSUMPTION

i don't know why but some compare it to 5400rpm and SSD drives drives and say it's power consumtion is bad other compare it to ssd and say it's speed is bad.

this is a 7200RPm replacement to fight SSD's it should be compared to thos drives from Pice/Performane/Power and not to SSD's in general or even stupid low spinning 5400 drives!!!

arg i would buy one imediately it the would have taken 8GB SSD just for fun! Hybrid is nice as i store things and a 80GB SSD is no upgrade for me .-(

Mussels · May 30, 2010

Baum said:
please can we see a review from that momentus XT compared to traditional 2,5" HD with same Speed and rotational Speed? ++++ POWERCONSUMPTION

i don't know why but some compare it to 5400rpm and SSD drives drives and say it's power consumtion is bad other compare it to ssd and say it's speed is bad.

this is a 7200RPm replacement to fight SSD's it should be compared to thos drives from Pice/Performane/Power and not to SSD's in general or even stupid low spinning 5400 drives!!!

arg i would buy one imediately it the would have taken 8GB SSD just for fun! Hybrid is nice as i store things and a 80GB SSD is no upgrade for me .-(

benchmarks would be hard, because they'd come right from the SSD part of the drive which is only its peak performance.

its one of those things that 'feel' is what matters most.

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Seagate Delivers World's Fastest Hard Drive For Laptop Computers, Momentus XT SSHDD

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