Seagate Momentus XT Drives

superleeds27 · 29 Dec 2011 at 09:30

Never knew these exsisted, not exactly a massive fan of Seagate to be honest.

Anyone know what the performance of these are like? Suppose to be an improvement over your standard 7200RPM Drive. Just ahvent seen many reviews on them.

Castiel · 29 Dec 2011 at 10:54

Funny I was just looking at these as well......are they worth getting over a SSD...

superleeds27 · 29 Dec 2011 at 17:43

750GB Version lookms promising, bigger SSD in them. 8GB.

Price is a factor though!

Justintime · 29 Dec 2011 at 17:53

Not as good as an SSD or SSD caching from what i remember. Used one in flesh and it definetly felt like a fast hard drive, but not SSD fast if you get me. Wasn't there a lot of firmware issues in the start? I think the overall consensus is that the cache is really too small.

Rroff · 29 Dec 2011 at 18:05

Yeah just like a fast mechanical HDD, after a couple of boots or so the OS is quite quick to boot from them and if you only use 1-2 apps regularly you should see a fair benefit but overall useage won't touch an SSD.