Seagate Momentus XT

[Murdin999]

Whats the thought on this? Is it worth using on in a desktop? or just pay the extra and get a small SSD + a HDD?

Looking at these reviews:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...d_drive_delivers_SSD_performance_at_HDD_price

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/hard-disk/2010/05/25/seagate-momentus-xt-500gb-40089041/

They seem to match raptor drives, and at some points are faster than SSD:

In the throughput test, where we copy a large amount of data from one place to another from within the test computer's main hard drive, the Momentus XT did very well, registering 39.91MB/s, even faster than the 30.25MB/s of the Intel X-25M SSD.

Considering the cost and the capacity, surely this would be a much better buy than a SSD at the moment?

However only having 4gb of flash memory seems low considering most people use SSD for OS and that is a lot more than 4gb

 

[Freddie1980]

Whats the thought on this? Is it worth using on in a desktop? or just pay the extra and get a small SSD + a HDD?

Looking at these reviews:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...d_drive_delivers_SSD_performance_at_HDD_price

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/hard-disk/2010/05/25/seagate-momentus-xt-500gb-40089041/

They seem to match raptor drives, and at some points are faster than SSD:



Considering the cost and the capacity, surely this would be a much better buy than a SSD at the moment?

However only having 4gb of flash memory seems low considering most people use SSD for OS and that is a lot more than 4gb

Try and think of the 4gb is little more then a supersized cache, your not meant to install your hold OS on the cache but what it does is it learns how you use your computer and writes commonly accessed files to the cache so the next time you boot from cold apps and the OS boots quicker. Personally I think it's a good idea and one that will catch on over the next couple of years given the SSD's will never replace hard drives as the storage of choice for the foreseeable future due to there price.

 

[AbsenceJam]

I don't think they're worth it at all. SSD + HDD starts at less than a 500GB one and even on a laptop you can just replace the optical drive with an SSD so you can have speed and capacity.