VPN: ST95005620ASSeagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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 Rating: Review Date: 02/02/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Rating: Review Date: 01/23/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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I installed this drive about 6 weeks ago and it has enhanced the overall efficiency of my HP G50 laptop. It boots much more rapidly and the Outlook and Excel files I use regularly load a lot quicker. Copying files from one spot to a different is about the same as my old 7200 rpm drive. No installation issues, no noise, no issues whatsoever Cost....But you do get what you pay for with this drive. Enhanced overall performance! It was vworth it to me |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/20/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Not high-priced for the advantage it can present. Even Windows index show .1 reduce, system loading and internet pages reload is a lot faster. Not as drastic as some say, but fast sufficient to give you a smile. Need to reinstall issue over if you don't have a tech handy. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/10/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Quiet, Cool and Quickly none seems quite quick |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/09/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:Clicking sound for the first few daysNot an ssd but fine for my old school m1330
Pros:10 cents a gig, some advantages of an ssd and space of a regular drive Comment:
Ocz vertex2 failed, replacement drive went into raid 5 array and xt went into laptop.Louder, uses more power, not as fast, but 5 times the space at half the cost |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/07/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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It ressucitated my MacBook, this HD gives wonderful performances, it's incredibly quiet and the temperature has by no means been this low. I'm in love with this!! None whatsoever to this day! I have a MacBook 1,83 Ghz bought in the spring of 2007. I changed the HD after a year for a Seagate 200 GB. At some point, the motherboard died and Apple replaced it. But by then, my 200 GB was dead as well. I just got around to obtaining this one and I need to say it's like obtaining a whole new computer. I upgraded the RAM to 4 GB in the 2010 spring and with the new motherboard and this HD, my Macbook has never been this silent or this cool (temperature). When I first place it in, it was arount 35 Celsius and right after a week of obtaining "smarter", the HD is now about 25 Celsius. The CPU itself is alsol benefiting from this. I can\'t be happier with this acquire. I recommand it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/07/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Really quick , particularly quiet ,runs cooler than the WD I took out ! None nevertheless , if there is a challenge I will up-date My critique Installation was a breeze , applied an eSATA cable to copy my old 250GB drive the whole procedure was much less than two hours . I can't think how fast this point is ...I really feel like I have a new computer . I don't assume my HP dv7 was this rapidly when I first got it ! I can't wait to up-grade my other HDD . I would very suggest this drive ! |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/06/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Bootup time has dropped by twoǙ or much more. Incredibly fast drive. Loads my games and programs Substantially faster than just before. I am impressed and that is tough to do in my biz... Acronis refused to see the drive till I updated the firmware and rebooted the process. Then cloning was a breeze. Had to update firmware right away (read quite a few forums about that) but it was effortless. I own a laptop repair center and I was running a WD Black 500GB. This is faster. Do not count on SSD speed, but this bugger is rapid. All of you that complain it did not speed you up, you want to examine your windows settings and make positive drive caching is on in the dev manager. Kill the superfetch service also. You must see a lot more speed then. If that doesn't do it, your process is messed up...**NOTE** You Must boot and reboot your laptop numerous instances ahead of you truly get the speed enhance. It is rapidly on first boot, but it gets considerably more rapidly.... What I did was cloned the drive and booted it. Then I began Steam (TF2) and WoW and then shut down the laptop. I did this 4 instances. Now this issue is WAAAAAY fast...I am getting three of these for my shop personal computer to put in RAID... |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/05/13 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Hybrid SSD\standard concept with wonderful promise with that fails to deliver. Drive failed twice in initially month. Returned for refund. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/30/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:none
Pros:Excellent performance speed,price Comment:
Really fast,and feels like a ssd. I got it for a replacement for my 2 year old hp g72 laptop because the hard drive broke. It boosted my laptops speed by a lot. I also love the price because i got it for only 39.99 on boxing day!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/27/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:non
Pros:nothing much to say, it's a 500gb hard drive that does it's job Comment:
This is a fine Harddrive it works the way a harddrive should be expected to and it has 4gb of ssd storage that will apparently only get make it fasterin the long run I honestly cant see anything wrong with that. If I did have to find some sort of fault it would be that I had issue loading a OS to it in an old laptop but it worked well in my main. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/27/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:none
Pros:Easy to installOverall good performance on laptopMuch bigger storage than SSD Comment:
Easy to installOverall good performance on laptopMuch bigger storage than SSD |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/26/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:-Seek noise-reliability?
Pros:-Speed-Power consumption Comment:
This has been a good purchase so far, it's very fast compared to my old hitachi 500GB 7200rpm laptop drive. It's much faster and doesn't use anymore power. The seek noise is louder on this drive however, and some have complained regarding the reliability issue of this drive. But it has been working fine for me so far. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/19/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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This is a great small drive. Windows boot instances are good and quickly soon after many reboots. Older firmware to this drive can be flaky. Make positive it is running SD25, downloadable from http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId� Make sure to reboot a number of occasions when you first install Windows on it. This gets the essential Windows files loaded into flash, and will speed up future reboots significantly! |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/15/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:not a true ssd
Pros:Pretty fast, as for booting up, decent amount of storage Comment:
well i like how small it is and it is quite fast as of now , a lot better than my old seagate 32mb cache one i got 2 years ago which i threw out lately cuz its broken lol it crashes my PC every 5 mins or even at the start of bootup.This is a good buy =P for 100's it is a good harddrive get it !! |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/14/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:None
Pros:Works greatNo issues Comment:
I bought this for $60 and I don't have anything bad to say about it. I bought it for my laptop that only had 320GB so the extra storage space is nice.The load times for Windows is noticeably faster which is nice and installation went off without a hitch. No compatibility issues and additional software required. Everything works great. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/11/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:There is faster but for the money its a good buy
Pros:No problems with it. Also own 750. Using them on an over locked computer Comment:
Works fine. I own the 750g and have the 500 coming. Overall good |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/08/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:regular price is a couple of dollars over a standard hard disk
Pros:sale price, boot up speed, seems a bit quieter when accessing files, 5 year warranty Comment:
Replaced a dying Momentus ST9500420AS. Cloned Win7 off the old 2.5 over to the hybrid and all is well. Seems to be booting up faster. There was 1st boot time message regarding the change but we carried on and without ignored whatever it was on about. End user is a happy camper. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/03/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:Not THAT fast
Pros:Silent, fast, runs cool Comment:
I bought it because my old hdd died on my laptop, great buy as it feels faster than a HDD.That being said, if it wasn't for the capacity, a SSD would be better in regards of boot time & cie. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/28/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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This drive will discover your habits. It is rapidly. Really rapid. 15 second boot time on my laptop (i7 2630QM). Did I say it's quick? Have to flash the firmware out of the box, but was easy. Have to use a particular tool to disable APM. Then it is rapid. True rapid. I had my doubts. I had a WD Black 500GB this morning. No additional! This drive has continuously got more quickly and more quickly. My fiance and I raced the laptop and from the windows loading screen it took 35 seconds to boot and launch just about every system I have including WoW, Workplace Enterprise, Steam, several overall performance testing suites, and far more. And this was from a clone of my old drive. Jaw dropping for a spinning drive!Keep in mind, flash the firmware and google a tool to disable APM... Sorry Mac OS... |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/27/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:None at this time
Pros:Price - Ease of install and durabillaty Comment:
Installed in a ACER Aspire one. Now makes it bareable to use. Cut boot time by 75% |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/24/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:-needed 8 boots to get it at SSD speeds. needed these boots so that the windows files get loaded onto the nand chip-could have more cache but its decent
Pros:-Very fast for a hard drive-costs as much as a regular 5400rpm laptop hard drive when i bought this-SSD speed for HDD pricing Comment:
One of my best purchases ever. would recommend to anyone who needs a good size of storage but needs somewhat of a SSDs performancejust hope that it does not die on me |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/18/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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Immediately recognized by the process, access instances enhance the more you use it, WAY faster than a 5400RPM drive and more rapidly than a typical 7200RPM drive Suspect Firmware updates, not effortless to update firmware for MacOS customers, pointless for Windows XP (and even Vista) and MacOS versions less than 10.5 I replaced the original 5400RPM drive in my wifes MacBook and was disappointed with the speed bump at first. Of course, the SSD on board has to optimize so after a week of use items got superior. Boot occasions are quick, but application loading is lightning rapid. Safari loads quickly as does Mail.If you use Windows XP (or even Vista), this drive may well not assist you as the drivers might not make ideal use of this technology. Ditto any MacOS users who are not on ten.five or ten.6. From what I can tell Windows 7 and MacOS 10.6 make the greatest use of this drive |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/11/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:Small improvement vs HD
Pros:Good price for capacity ratio Comment:
I bought this drive to replace my 128gb Muskin Chronos Deluxe in my desktop for capacity purpose (planned to use my Chronos into my laptop).Even my 2 WD Caviar black 1 TB in Raid 0 work as fast as the Momentus XT.So i think i will go back to SSD like Samsungs or new Corsair GTX with their new controler.One important thing is this drive would be easier to swap from one computer to another one vs switching 2 drives in Raid espacially when you change motherboard with different chipset with different raid controller.( kind of pain in the a.. to swap ) This review was modfied by poster @ 11-14-12 05:09 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/20/12 |
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
Cons:SATA rev. 2
Pros:4GB SSD cache, 7,200 RPM, 2.5" Comment:
This is a good drive, I use it in my 2008 macbook so speed things up. It is great, it runs cool, quiet, and the SSD cache speeds up boot times by a lot over a standard all mechanical 5,400 RPM drive. |
Value, 500GB, Hybrid style, fits in laptop or desktop with adapters (not supplied).It reduced my OS boot time rapidly. I am shocked to see my laptop booting as fairly quickly as my desktop, which has SSD's. I don't have to wait for everything to load from really hard drive given that it is placing loads of applications I use quite often in NAND memory on hard drive to speed load time. Due to the fact the NAND flash is only 4GB, don't expect all the things to load quickly, but at 7200 rpm and 32MB of Cache, other things load well. I don't have any challenges with the difficult drive going into sleep mode and powering down.Prior to installing the drive I downloaded the most up-to-date firmware from Seagate and updated it right immediately after installation. It was a really basic approach and completely brainless.I am applying Win 7 OS and Asus GV-50 Laptop. If these drives came in three.5 format and had far more NAND memory, I wouldn't be getting SSD's at all. None so far. There is a slight improve in voltage to supply NAND memory, so count on a slight improve in heat, but nothing to be concerned about. I definitely consider this hard drive and hope that other manufactures stick to suit. In reality, applying a dual, hybrid program like this performs genuinely properly and for the price, can't be beat. I am hopeful that we will see increases in NAND flash memory amount and three.five sizes to fit desktops. When I saw these come out some time ago I was expecting to see other manufactures adapt their drives as properly. With all the fuss over SSD;s having the attention, these little giants are going un-noticed.NewEgg packaged the drive in bubble wrap and placed it in little white box, which was placed in one other brown box surrounded by package material. Lets not blame NewEgg for all our difficult drive failures. When the delivery truck arrived and made a tight, steep turn into our driveway, a variety of boxes flew off the shelves (not mine). As drives speed up and their capacity increases, there have been extra failures, that's the value we spend for speed and size.