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Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD Review
07.08.10 05:21 PM Filed in: Gear Reviews
It’s hard to buy a new hard drive these days, and not feel somewhat cheated. On one hand, traditional hard drives have never been cheaper. But on the other, their performance is completely eclipsed by solid state drives. It seems like you have two choices - pay outrageous amounts of money for little space and bleeding edge performance, or get a cheap drive with ample space that will be the bottleneck in your system performance. Neither is a great option.
Seagate is trying to make its own path with the Momentus XT Hybrid SSD. It’s a clever concept - a traditional 7200 RPM drive with 4 gigs of an ultra-fast SLC SSD built in. It memorizes what programs you use the most, and loads it into the read-only part of the drive.
One notable reviewer lauded it, proclaiming “finally a good hybrid SSD!” The problem is, this high-profile reviewer measured it on a Windows system. The AppleNinja got her hands on it, and found it strongly DECREASED her system speed in OSX. Read more to get the gritty details of why Mac users should not buy this drive. Read More...
Seagate is trying to make its own path with the Momentus XT Hybrid SSD. It’s a clever concept - a traditional 7200 RPM drive with 4 gigs of an ultra-fast SLC SSD built in. It memorizes what programs you use the most, and loads it into the read-only part of the drive.
One notable reviewer lauded it, proclaiming “finally a good hybrid SSD!” The problem is, this high-profile reviewer measured it on a Windows system. The AppleNinja got her hands on it, and found it strongly DECREASED her system speed in OSX. Read more to get the gritty details of why Mac users should not buy this drive. Read More...
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