The Seagate® Momentus® XT drive is a solid state hybrid with Adaptive Memory™ technology, enabling the drive to deliver SSD-like performance along with higher capacity. The Momentus XT drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making this drive easy to integrate and easy to use. Adaptive Memory technology enables the drive to tailor performance to the user. Whether you are gaming, editing digital media or crunching numbers, performance is optimized and ready for your next move.
* 500GB, 320GB and 250GB hard drive capacity options
* 4GB SLC NAND solid state memory
* 7200-RPM spindle speed
* 32MB of drive-level cache
* SATA 3Gb/s with Native Command Queuing
with reports of a significant increase in disk access speed, looks dope as hell and pretty goddamn affordable.
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Electronic Music discussion: Seagate Momentus XT 7200rpm SSD/SATA hybrid drive
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Written February 19 2011
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Seems good for reducing boot times, and possibly app load up times. I don't think it will help much for things like DAW track counts and sample libraries, though. Unless you use the same (smallish) sample library over and over and over again.
SSDs are coming down in price pretty quickly. 120GB can be had for around $200 now. That's about enough storage for OS + apps + current working project files. I think I'll be taking the plunge pretty soon. I've already got a 1.5TB drive that I use for archives, music, videos, etc. I'd like a SSD system drive, though. They're more dependable. I have an 80GB Intel SSD in my netbook, and it works great! I have had problems with laptop drives before this one, but SSDs can survive being bumped around. I dropped my netbook recently (oops!). My wireless USB dongle doesn't work anymore, the laptop itself works fine, though. It didn't even crash the system (except the internet wasn't connected anymore, obviously). I suppose the hybrid drive would be good for someone that likes to have everything on one drive. Personally, I prefer having a separate system drive for OS + apps. It makes performing a fresh OS install much simpler, and quicker. Signup to comment
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