Seagate Momentus XT, I like
I just got a new work machine, HP ProBook 6450b.
And I talked my local IT guy into dropping a 500GB MXT into it.
cons - it does make a little more noise than the stock drive. A light tapping is the only sound.
pros - it is quick drive. not SSD speeds but clearly the fastest notebook hard drive that I have ever used.
And I talked my local IT guy into dropping a 500GB MXT into it.
cons - it does make a little more noise than the stock drive. A light tapping is the only sound.
pros - it is quick drive. not SSD speeds but clearly the fastest notebook hard drive that I have ever used.
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Nice and quick, recovery from idle is very fast.
I'll be doing this again.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=70f4bfafecadd110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD
It's not the XT, but it seems fast enough for a laptop HD.
I'm curious: What does SSD Hybrid mean? Does it just use a ton of cache? (I see that the XT has 32mb of cache as opposed to 8mb in the regular Momentus)
http://storagemojo.com/2010/05/24/seagate-gets-hybrid-ssdhdd-right/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177123/Seagate_hybrid_drive_delivers_SSD_performance_at_HDD_price
One of the commenters on fatcat's first link mentioned ZFS providing similar functionality with a separate SSD, so off to Wikipedia I went. I just now escaped. I don't know what happened, except that my brain hurts, and I kind of want to install FreeBSD.
I thought that only happened to rookies.
The best thing about the XT is that the machine comes back from hibernate very fast.
http://tech.icrontic.com/article/seagate-momentus-xt-hybrid-drive-review/