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Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Hard Drive Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-01-19 21:00:00.0


t-break have reviewed the new Seagate Momentus XT 750GB, a 2.5" hybrid hard drive with a 8GB SLC NAND chip on the drive's PCB.

Let's see what they had to say:

"The Seagate Momentus XT’s performance is undeniably higher than regular 2.5” or 3.5” 7200rpm hard drives. While not as fast as traditional SSDs, the SATA III interface, bigger NAND Flash and a better self-learning algorithm certainly bridges the gap between the first generation hybrid drive and SSDs.

With the promise of a firmware upgrade in the near future that allows real-time writing on the NAND, the performance can only get better. Of course, that’s not to say that the Momentus XT drives don’t have room for improvement. Larger cache, preferably 64MB instead of 32MB and 20GB of NAND Flash would be very welcomed in the 3rd generation drives."


This is a very interesting product, Seagate have clearly done a great job with this second-generation hybrid hard drive. It might be pricey, but it's the only choice for those who need a huge capacity high-performance storage solution.

Click here to read the full review.

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