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

On opening this thread I was initially interested, almost ready to buy one for my laptop, but then read the comments on drive issues so headed over to the Seagate forums, and sure enough, there are 16 pages of people complaining about heat, noise and above all, hanging after a few days - weeks use....

All this with the latest firmware SD23, so think I'll hold off till they get a new firmware solution, or the competion comes out with a working drive, probably be cheap by then too?

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I've had one since last Thursday in my new notebook and not had any problems so far. It's definitely quick when using Windows over the 5,400rpm drive which was in there before I upgraded it to the XT.

Obviously I've only had it a few days so can't comment on its long term reliability!
 
Anyone used these for their desktops?

Almost every single review I'm finding around the net is saying these drives are the perfect choice for near-ssd performance with hdd capacity. These drives apparently beat both 10,000rpm and 7,200rpm drives in real world performance.

Considering either of the following for my E8400 3.6ghz 4GB PC6400 desktop;
  • 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID) --> 500gb, £193 = Larger capacity
  • 1 x Intel X25-M 160GB --> 160GB, £200 = Better performance
I wonder how real world performance will compare... I've had a X25-M 160gb in my system previously and it was superb tbh but the space was still a pain.
 
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I've had mine in a new build PC since Tues and as day to day computing goes you wouldn't see any problems but in gaming (racing games) there's definately short pauses in game and System Mechanic Pro is telling me with it's real time hard drive sensors that there is a seek error rate problem.

The drive above in the screenshot is a *clean pull* Seagate 1.5TB LP 5900RPM drive (also bought from OC,not OC's fault i know but Seagate's) this had two similar warnings which i fixed by updating the firmware but the Momentus XT came with firmware v.SD23 so i'll just have to wait for v.SD24 i guess to see if that sort's out the problems?

I posted a similar post in the "clean pull" Seagate thread



EDIT: p.s BTW i'm happy with the performance on both drive's ;)
 
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Hey,

Besides the access time of 0.3ms what makes these better than the f4 sammys that you sell? I have two in raid and they beat your crystaldisk raid benchmark in every test?

Am tempted to get one for my laptop but waiting to see what everyone says regarding the noise and other issues first.
 
tommytinkle said:
Hey,

Besides the access time of 0.3ms what makes these better than the f4 sammys that you sell? I have two in raid and they beat your crystaldisk raid benchmark in every test?

Am tempted to get one for my laptop but waiting to see what everyone says regarding the noise and other issues first.
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Synthetic tests will show the same results as a standard momentus as the data cant be loaded to the SSD part. If it was loaded to the SSD part the results would be very miss leading as it would show similar results to a pair of SSDs and not HDDs. The SSD part is there to sotre commonly loaded files such as windows files or files you may find in games. As such the programs and features you use most become very quick just like having an SSD where everything else remains as it would loading from a standard drive. Overall results and system performance is improved significantly.


Andy
 
My VelociRaptor RAID array beats the array posted by OcUK in terms of data speed, by as much as 20mbps in some cases. Seek time is much higher, about 6ms higher.

I suppose the speed is due to the Momentus drive reading from the none SSD drive to do the benchmark. But really, if you don't use your PC for the same thing day in day out, you won't see much in the way of benefits other than the seek time?
 
Andrew Moore said:
Synthetic tests will show the same results as a standard momentus as the data cant be loaded to the SSD part. If it was loaded to the SSD part the results would be very miss leading as it would show similar results to a pair of SSDs and not HDDs. The SSD part is there to sotre commonly loaded files such as windows files or files you may find in games. As such the programs and features you use most become very quick just like having an SSD where everything else remains as it would loading from a standard drive. Overall results and system performance is improved significantly.


Andy
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Hey,
The problem though Andy, is I have 640gb of storage space for less than the price of a single one of these drives. I think they may be onto something with the loading files you use most being quicker, but in reality - I play many different games, its never going to be able to load all the necessary data into the ssd part. Maybe it'll load steam.exe and that'd be it :P
 
NathWraith said:
Some benchies of 2 500gb drives in RAID0 :)


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tommytinkle said:
Hey,



:)
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Quite a price difference for a performance decrease imo. The seagate is £200 worth, my spinpoint F3's come in at around £60. Surely the best combo is a SSD drive and mechanical still?
 
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