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

These drives are on pre-order now! Featuring an 4GB SSD built into the same unit as the 7200rpm drive the Momentus XT is up to 80% faster than the standard Momentus 7200rpm drive delivering performance that beats the champion VelociRaptor drives in nearly all areas! Hot on the heals of most SSDs but providing masses of capacity for a fraction of the price these drives are Epically quick offering fantastic value for money without skimping on performance.


Seagate 500GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA-300 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB @ £99.99 inc VAT



Powerful, intelligent, affordable - solid-state hybrid drives deliver SSD-like performance without sacrificing storage capacity and affordability.

- Adaptive Memory™ technology
- 80% faster than traditional 7,200-RPM drives
- Boot within seconds of a laptop with SSD
- Work in any standard laptop with any OS
- Seagate 5-year limited warranty

The Seagate Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive combines SSD-like performance with affordable high-capacity hard drive storage for laptops, external backup and small form factor desktop PCs. This drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making it easy to integrate and easy to use.

The Momentus XT drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacities up to 500GB and SSD-like performance.

Adaptive Memory Technology

Designed with high-performance core components on an innovative platform, the Momentus XTdrive consists of a 7200-RPM hard drive with 32MB of cache, 4GB of solid state SLC NAND flash storage, and Adaptive Memory self-learning technology. Adaptive Memory technology intelligently monitors frequently used applications and data fi les, then places them into the solid
state portion of the drive so they can be quickly recalled. Adaptive Memory technology enables the drive to tailor its performance to the user.Whether you are gaming, editing digital media or
crunching numbers, the performance is optimized and ready for your next move.

Key Specifications

- 500GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive capacity options
- 4GB SLC NAND solid-state memory
- 7,200-RPM spindle speed
- 32MB of drive-level cache
- SATA 3-Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing

Best for

- High-end laptops and workstations
- High-performance gamer laptops
- Fast external enclosures: USB 3.0, eSATA
- Small form factor PCs
- High performance Desktop Storage


Only £99.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

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Powerful, intelligent, affordable - solid-state hybrid drives deliver SSD-like performance without sacrificing storage capacity and affordability.

- Adaptive Memory™ technology
- 80% faster than traditional 7,200-RPM drives
- Boot within seconds of a laptop with SSD
- Work in any standard laptop with any OS
- Seagate 5-year limited warranty

The Seagate Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive combines SSD-like performance with affordable high-capacity hard drive storage for laptops, external backup and small form factor desktop PCs. This drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making it easy to integrate and easy to use.

The Momentus XT drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacities up to 500GB and SSD-like performance.

Adaptive Memory Technology

Designed with high-performance core components on an innovative platform, the Momentus XTdrive consists of a 7200-RPM hard drive with 32MB of cache, 4GB of solid state SLC NAND flash storage, and Adaptive Memory self-learning technology. Adaptive Memory technology intelligently monitors frequently used applications and data fi les, then places them into the solid
state portion of the drive so they can be quickly recalled. Adaptive Memory technology enables the drive to tailor its performance to the user.Whether you are gaming, editing digital media or
crunching numbers, the performance is optimized and ready for your next move.

Key Specifications

- 500GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive capacity options
- 4GB SLC NAND solid-state memory
- 7,200-RPM spindle speed
- 32MB of drive-level cache
- SATA 3-Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing

Best for

- High-end laptops and workstations
- High-performance gamer laptops
- Fast external enclosures: USB 3.0, eSATA
- Small form factor PCs
- High performance Desktop Storage

Only £93.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

Seagate 250GB MomentusXT Hybrid SATA-300 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB @ £82.24 inc VAT



Powerful, intelligent, affordable - solid-state hybrid drives deliver SSD-like performance without sacrificing storage capacity and affordability.

- Adaptive Memory™ technology
- 80% faster than traditional 7,200-RPM drives
- Boot within seconds of a laptop with SSD
- Work in any standard laptop with any OS
- Seagate 5-year limited warranty

The Seagate Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive combines SSD-like performance with affordable high-capacity hard drive storage for laptops, external backup and small form factor desktop PCs. This drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making it easy to integrate and easy to use.

The Momentus XT drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacities up to 500GB and SSD-like performance.

Adaptive Memory Technology

Designed with high-performance core components on an innovative platform, the Momentus XTdrive consists of a 7200-RPM hard drive with 32MB of cache, 4GB of solid state SLC NAND flash storage, and Adaptive Memory self-learning technology. Adaptive Memory technology intelligently monitors frequently used applications and data fi les, then places them into the solid
state portion of the drive so they can be quickly recalled. Adaptive Memory technology enables the drive to tailor its performance to the user.Whether you are gaming, editing digital media or
crunching numbers, the performance is optimized and ready for your next move.

Key Specifications

- 500GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive capacity options
- 4GB SLC NAND solid-state memory
- 7,200-RPM spindle speed
- 32MB of drive-level cache
- SATA 3-Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing

Best for

- High-end laptops and workstations
- High-performance gamer laptops
- Fast external enclosures: USB 3.0, eSATA
- Small form factor PCs
- High performance Desktop Storage


Only £82.24 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

These seem to have got quite good reviews on a few sites I've seen... Has anyone tried one of these in a Macbook and if so how much better was it compared to a normal mechanical HD?

This is what I look to be doing. And when they say it is 80% faster than a standard drive Seagate really are not joking


Andy

Great innovation by seagate there, may also pick one up for a laptop

What read and writes do these get?

Great price and warranty, what is the noise like? Is it more quite because of the SSD

links dont work

A quick google on these show they don't beat the Velociraptor at all.

Haven't been able to find a comparison with the F3, which comes in at half the price for twice the capacity (raid anyone?)

Ive got one in my netbook, it boots almost as fast as my pc with a ocz vertex 2e

Ok maybe not quite as good as that but 45secs from off to usable desktop pretty good if you ask me

i wonder how they would perform, in a raid setup

Hmmm, interesting, if anyone finds any decent reviews, please post the links. May have a serious look at these when I'm upgrading at Xmas.

These will be tested shortly as a single drive and as a raid setup if raid works (which I'm certain it will).

As for these beating the raptor... They do in 90% of what you use a pc for everyday. Faster boot, faster response, faster reads and writes white it counts. Thats what matters



Andy

billysielu said:

A quick google on these show they don't beat the Velociraptor at all.

Haven't been able to find a comparison with the F3, which comes in at half the price for twice the capacity (raid anyone?)

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They do in typical usage, its only in some benchmarks they loose out. For me I'll take real world usage anyday.

Ideal for laptops and desktops too due to the 2.5" size and a pair in RAID 0 should be extremely good, or even 4 of them for 2TB capacity.

Remember the random access on these is like 0.3ms which is SSD territory.

Another thing I've just noticed is they seem too close together in price. I realise in pounds-difference it's basically the difference in the value of the hard disks - with the ssd part remaining the same in each.

However... that means in percentage terms the prices are similar. Won't everyone go for the 500?

ive no idea what all this means but a quick screenshot from my 250gb one on my netbook



hmmm i just changed a setting in the bios as it had LBA mode or whatever set to DOS, im currently rerunning the tests and it looks a lot better also ACHI is set to auto so im not sure if that is on or off?

Heres the rerun

Gibbo said:

Remember the random access on these is like 0.3ms which is SSD territory.

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Surely that's only until the system randomly accesses data that's not on the SSD portion?

I like the idea of these but how does it work in terms of maintenance? Would win 7 pick them up as an SSD, do they have trim, do you defrag them etc?

Its something I shall find out for you. With it being a hard disc at heart I should imagine it will require a defrag where as the SSD part will no doubt not appear as a writable mass to format. A bit like a massive permanent buffer even though it has its own buffer too!


Andy

Cheers , I'm putting together a SFF build soon and something like this would be perfect.

Doesnt show as anything different than a usual hdd to me, ive got 100mb system reserved and 232.78gb NTFS in drive management