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Product ReviewsSeagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid SATA Drive 2.5IN
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 Rating: Review Date: 05/24/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/09/13 |
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At initially I was hesitant of placing a notebook difficult drive in my desktop machine. I have to admit, I am quite impressed with how rapid it operates. I also have an Intel 80GB SSD in my machine and I can tell you they each really feel extremely related in speed in loading applications. Very impressive load speeds all round, Windows 7 boots incredibly swiftly. two.5" drive, so you require a bracket to mount it in most desktop instances, but this truly isn't a adverse. Could have had considerably higher capacity if they had the XT line in a three.5" type factor. If you are on the fence about employing a notebook tough drive in a desktop like I was, you won't be disappointed. This ended up being an extremely strong purchase which offers the balance of speed and capacity involving standard really hard drives and solid state drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/14/13 |
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Quite Fast and quiet, 499.97GB of 500GB usable non so far I replaced a WD 7200 rpm drive with this one about a month ago. It boots up OS X in 11 sec and Windows 7 Ultimate in 17 sec. It shuts down OS X as soon as I click the shut down button and Windows requires only six seconds. Also all the programs open up and run extremely fast. It's about twice as fast as my preceding 7200rpm HDD and more quickly then I expected it to be.My Technique: Macbook 6,1 white unibody two.26Ghz, 8GB DDR3, 500GB Momentus XT, Nvidia 9400m, Dualboot(Bootcamp) Mac OX X 10.six.6 and Windows 7 Ultimate |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/23/13 |
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A lot more rapidly than a regular 7200rpm HDD. Outstanding if you use the similar handful of applications on a regular basis, bootup times are extremely rapid. Comes with Seagate's 5-year warranty in case anything goes wrong. Plenty of storage space. No specific drivers required. Not as quick as a pure SSD, but at a fraction of the price tag, you shouldn't anticipate it to be. Crucial: Be sure to upgrade the firmware. There were some troubles with the SD23 firmware that are fixed in SD24. Hyperlink for download: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/downloads/firmware/MomentusXT-ALL-SD24.exe |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/05/13 |
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Even though this drive worked my personal computer was noticeably faster. I also added 1g of ram and up win 7 64 bit on it at the exact same time so I can't say it was the HD but I'm confident that the hybrid drive helped. This drive after about two weeks started to make a sound like a fan rubbing on its housing. I believed it was my CPU fan and ordered one particular and replaced it. The sound continued right after replacement of my fan and then about a month after installed my drive it failed. This was a wonderful drive for the cash. I think I just got a lemon. I've had actually excellent luck with seagate in the previous. This is just one a lot more lesson why it is so significant to back up anything you don't want to loose! |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/22/13 |
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The drive is surely quick. Right after the drive "learns" your habits it genuinely does open those programs really rapidly. Other than that the overall performance positive aspects are not very advantageous. The drive came with old firmware vSD23 and was a discomfort to get the new version on there if you have an Apple. I ended up just plugging it into a windows machine to make it easier. It exhibited weird behavior such as clicking noises, would not go to sleep and would also lock up if I left it on all evening. I would have to do really hard shut downs to get it to shut down every so frequently. If you have a windows machine, it may work nicely for you, if you have an Apple I think it is a hit or miss. Some Mac owners adore this drive and other folks hate it. I'm returning it and buying a Western Digital Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT 750GB 7200 RPM and will see how that works out. Great luck to you if go with this drive, it could be a excellent issue or undesirable. Unibody MBP most up-to-date release, i7ǘ.66ǞGB RAM릘MB VRAM/Snow Leopard with current updates. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/21/13 |
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No issues in terms of program hangs, and so forth. Seemed slow when I put it in my 15" MacBook Pro. Granted, the SATA chipset in this machine has a 1.5Gbit link speed, so I'm not obtaining all I can from this drive. Even so, I didn't anticipate a efficiency degradation from my preceding Seagate Momentus drive. Xbench after utilizing this drive for a bit gave me a consistent overall score of 54-56. The most significant drops seemed to be in the CPU tests, but the different disk tests were decrease as properly. By comparison, Xbench gave me a 120-123 general score with my old drive, with CPU scores more than doubled in quite a few circumstances. Most almost everything I've read about this drive has been optimistic, so I feel what I'm experiencing right here has to do with the interaction of the hybrid features with this specifically pc's chipset. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/19/13 |
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Windows and often used applications now boot quickly. This point is quick compared to my last 200gb 7200 rpm drive. Too terrible that 500gb was the max size. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/08/13 |
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No special drivers or computer softwareNoticeably more rapidly than IDEQuiet No cons Even though my principal personal computer is a newer ASUS MB with Intel quad-core CPU, it has always been hampered by the older PATA 5400 OS drive. VM swapping was painfully noticeable. Dropping in this drive (after using DiscWizard to create the clone) offered a huge overall raise in overall performance. Boot time dropped to roughly one-quarter of what it was, and all the most-frequently-utilised apps load faster. The combination of more rapidly rotational speed, bigger cache, and SSD appears like a excellent mixture.1 intriguing note: right after initial installation, I was hugely disappointed to come across the machine truly running slower than with the old original drive. I had performed all the prerequisites, like flashing the most up-to-date FW. It just seemed as if the drive was struggling to study. Right after much trial-and-error I plugged the drive into a different SATA port, and whoosh she took off! Perhaps a bad port or funky cable -- difficult to say. But due to the fact then it's been fantastic. Hugely recommended upgrade. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/06/13 |
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The hybrid HDD notion is strong and this certainly runs faster than a regular HDD, but at a much reduced cost than a full SSD.Laptop boots in significantly less the half the time to fully ready to go from the old 5400rpm HDD, both with a fresh installation for testing purposes.Win7 is wise about these drives and runs a bunch faster. It is also far more aggressive in spinning down the drive to save energy than with the old HDD. None. I'll be curious to see if/when Seagate begins escalating the SSD portion to larger than 4GB. That'll only make these a lot more eye-catching. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/05/13 |
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About doubled the speed of my new laptop w/ win7 none My new Win7 laptop was as slow as my five year old laptop with XP. Exact same make & model. I swapped out their OEM with this drive & it produced a large difference even on the first boot. Anything loads in about half the time. Sweet :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/05/13  |
Cons: Nothing yet.
Pros: Cheap for what is it I guess Comment:
Got it on sale for 69.99. Decent product, but haven't tried loading an OS off of it yet. And it hasn't blown up yet. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/04/13 |
Cons: I don't know the reliability of this drive ....
Pros: Picked this up as a replacement for my old HDD in my laptopIt is a little bit faster than traditional hard drive Comment:
this drive is an excellent compromise between the storage space and the price of a SSD |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/02/13 |
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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. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/23/13 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Quiet, Cool and Quickly none seems quite quick |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/09/13 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
It was quicker than my 5400rpm drive. Nonetheless slower than an SSD. Louder than my 5400rpm drive. More power consumption than either an SSD or a 5400rpm drive.Died following three months with only a few hundred power on hours. If they don't come about to have it in stock when you RMA it, they'll make you wait over two weeks following receiving your old drive and confirming it's broken and below warranty without even letting you know. For the month in the meantime, hopefully you have a non-Seagate really hard drive you can boot from.I don't ever strategy on obtaining a Seagate drive once more --- not mainly because the drive died, but mainly because client service sucks.