SSD Hybrid- Seagate Momentus

[Bacon]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&Tpk=22-148-591

Never seen this before; anyone know anything about it?

 

[tremmor]

good drive. Have 5 of them. not that big. Never failed yet.
had several in the past.

 

[Bacon]

Based on very little reading it seems to me like the SSD is just a massive cache.

 

[Russ88765]

I asked about a similar drive awhile ago

 

[StrangleHold]

Toss up. Its twice the price of a standard 500GB. But not anywhere near twice the performance. Compared to a SSD it gets killed, but it is 500gb.

Not worth it for the price IMO. If they were 20 bucks cheaper it would be a good compromise between a standard and SSD.

 

[tremmor]

It says SSD performance. No.......not what i have. Just barracuda's with performance. Its coming up soon. Mama says Christmas. mine are just 7500 rpm. works well.

 

[Twist86]

It will be a little faster then most 7200 drives but it still has high seek times which is what a TRUE benefit of SSD is. The writes/reads have been done in RAID for years.

 

[tech savvy]

watch the second video at the link below.Seagate Momentus XT is faster than 10k rpm drives as in the VelociRaptor at $129.99 for 150gb, to seagate XT 500gb for $129.99.the seagate XT would be a better option than other 10k drives.seagate XT is atleast 3x faster than normal HDD. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6280178&Sku=TMD-500AS4

 

[Bacon]

fffffffffu

I just bought a velociraptor too

 

[wellhellothere]

US prices are so much better than UK

 

[diduknowthat]

Based on very little reading it seems to me like the SSD is just a massive cache.

It's a little different as there's 32MB of regular volatile hard drive cache and a 4GB chunk of non-volatile SLC or MLC NAND flash memory.