***** SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID HDD/SSD ***** IN STOCK NOW!!

iDroid84 said:
4GB SSD? Not giving much room for the OS/Installs ? Or am I missing something? Great for little Micro OSs. I don't think they will give the same feeling as a genuine full SSD drive will.
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The 4GB of flash only acts as a big cache for the hard drive.

At work we bought one of these drives for evaluation a while back. I slapped it into my laptop, which normally runs a 40GB Kingston/Intel SSD plus a 500GB 5400rpm HD in an optical bay caddy, and wasn't at all impressed. It's consistently slower than the Kingston drive (which isn't exactly a speed demon in SSD terms) to the point where it really didn't feel much faster than a normal 7200rpm 2.5" drive. Boot up was a bit quicker, but general performance was nowhere near as snappy as with the SSD.
 
Ok, just bought this, but not from ocuk sadly. Competitor price was too good. Was interested in the Momentus XT but lack of info took me elsewhere. If you are not fast you are last.:(
 
rolypolyman said:
Ok, just bought this, but not from ocuk sadly. Competitor price was too good. Was interested in the Momentus XT but lack of info took me elsewhere. If you are not fast you are last.:(
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to a lot of laptop users this is not an option. i think a lot of people have this setup in a pc

SSD - windows and apps. the old game
standard HD for data, music, video ect...

me sticking a 64gig ssd in my laptop would leave me very short of data i want on my laptop, that's why im looking at this drive.
 
The company I work for runs a PC/laptop repair centre, and I'd estimate 95%+ of the laptops we get in have a conventional removable DVD drive. Custom non-removable drives and slot-loaders are not that common, and seem to be most prevalent on higher-end DTR models that often have a second 2.5" drive bay anyway.

The fairly low-end Sony laptop I use day-to-day turned out to not only cope with an optical caddy just fine, but can hot-swap that and the DVD drive without problems.

Getting back to the Momentus XT, I'd love to see numbers on how much - if any - faster it is than simply sticking in a large (ie, 8/16GB) SD card and enabling ReadyBoost. I never had time to check that out when I had the drive for testing :(
 
Do you know if there are any plans of bigger 2.5" Hybrids in the future? Something like a 128Gb SSD with a 500Gb HDD? It would be great if manufacturers started making slimmer laptop SSDs and HDDs (not sure how dense laptop HDD platters are) that could fit into a normal 2.5" laptop HDD bay together...

The reason I ask is that Id love to put a SSD into my MBP but I could never afford it as an all-in-one storage solution so still need a HDD. An external one isnt a solution but something like this with a bit more storage to allow me to store the OS/select apps and games on the SSD would be perfect.

Long warranty would be a must though :p

P.S. Im not looking for HDDs which use the SSD as cache but more the form factor where I can fit both a SSD and HDD and have both their relevant advantages into a single laptop drive bay...

EDIT: Bugger _Jimlad_s already mentioned this!

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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i put one of these in a friends laptop when they first came out a few months ago and while it does help with stuff you use regularly and boot times, it is nothing compared to an ssd.

to be honest think of these as hard drives with ready boost on them.
 
As the video on the store page says a few seconds slower at a 1/4 of the price. I dont think it would be a bad idea as a gaming drive /os drive.
 
I'd hold out until OcUK give us some form of review. Google the Seagate Momentus XT Hyrbid problems and you'll find a lot of complaints.

My advice - don't buy it quite yet, hold out a little.
 
i guess there will be a flood of these type of models soon, the video does show it to be a good buy, but yeah wanna see what ocuk say and have also seen a few issues, but 5 year warranty too :)
 
kalvindeane said:
I really hope that there is a "flood" of similar models! Would definitely buy a hybrid over an ssd..
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Well, these have been out for 4 or 5 months now (OC have been slow at getting them for whatever reason), and no one else seems to have announced a similar hybrid drive. Maybe the other companies just don't think it's worth it.

If (and I guess it's a big "if") there was a substantial price drop in normal SSDs, hybrids would pretty much become pointless overnight.
 
for whatever reason SSD's dont seem to be dropping, im glad i dived in on my main pc and picked up and intel about this time 12 months back, as i was like many gonna wait for a price drop which simply has not come
 
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