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Seagate Releases Second Generation Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive

Seagate Releases Second Generation Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive

Posted November 29, 2011 at 3:34pm by iClarified
Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company's fastest drive ever for personal computers. With a simple drive upgrade, users can boost boot-up speed and overall performance to turbo-charge their laptop PC. Seven original equipment manufacturers are gearing up to ship laptops powered by the Momentus XT drive. The drive is now available at online retailers Amazon, Canada Computers, CDW, Memory Express, NCIX, Newegg, and TigerDirect.

Powering the Momentus XT drive are Seagate's Adaptive Memory™ and FAST Factor™ technologies. Adaptive Memory technology works by identifying data usage patterns, and then moving the most frequently retrieved information to solid state memory for faster access. Adaptive Memory effectively tailors hard drive performance to each user and the applications they use. FAST Factor technology blends the strengths of SSDs and hard disk drives for faster access to applications, quicker bootup and higher overall system speed.

Momentus XT – Meeting the need for speed
The Momentus XT drive is nearly 70 percent faster than the prior Momentus drive version and up to three times faster than a traditional hard disk drive while providing 750GB of storage capacity. The Momentus XT hard drive's Serial ATA 6Gb/second interface and 8 gigabytes of Single Level Cell NAND flash double the interface and NAND read-write speed of the previous generation. The all-in-one design of Momentus XT drive makes installation and upgrading simple and easy for any laptop or desktop computer and with any operating system.


Tuning Momentus XT for Optimal Performance
The hard drive industry is transitioning from the current 512-byte sector standard to a newer Advanced Format 4K (4096-byte) sector size that helps maintain data integrity at higher storage densities and capacities. Momentus XT takes advantage of this newer Advanced Format 4K standard and is already tuned for optimal performance on the latest PC operating systems.

Momentus XT customers can easily optimize Momentus XT to work with Windows XP and older versions of Microsoft Windows with a few simple steps. Please visit this pageon the Seagate web site to determine if Momentus XT is already tuned for your operating system version and how to do so if needed: http://www.seagate.com/momentusXT-4K.

The Momentus XT drive is now shipping in volume worldwide. Manufacturer's suggesting retail pricing (MSRP) for the Momentus XT 750GB is $245.

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MrYogi
MrYogi - November 29, 2011 at 9:16pm
I can't wait for this! But 245 is a bit too steep for 750gbs. Given there's only 6gbs of ssd... Where ssd is only at what 1.29 a gig avg today...
6italia0
6italia0 - November 29, 2011 at 5:28pm
I can't wait to get one of these, I have a 1TB HDD in my 13" MBP but I would gladly give up 1/4 of it to have an SSD instead of HDD. awesome:D
Curtix
Curtix - November 29, 2011 at 5:49pm
It's not a SSD dude. It's hybrid. 6GB flash and up to 750GB of HDD.
6italia0
6italia0 - November 29, 2011 at 6:00pm
All I read honestly was 750gb and solid state hybrid
Curtix
Curtix - November 29, 2011 at 6:14pm
I have a 500GB momentus XT in my laptop. I didn't notice a huge performance boost really. I think if I swapped it into my new laptop though, that it would perform better. For some things it will supposedly perform as fast ad SSD. But those are regularly performed, small requests for data. Stuff like virtual memory requests and boots.
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