Momentus xt what the experts are saying seagate blog. Last year, seagate threw the storage world a curve when it. Hi, i am intending to buy a 750gb 2nd generation seagate momentus xt model st750lx003 for my macbook. The momentus xt drive is designed for all standard laptop pcs and is os, driver and software independent, making this drive easy to integrate and easy to use. For those craving performance and capacity though, the price may not matter. Performance is still solid and a definite improvement over the tired old 7200. Ive found on the internet that seagates sd28 is the latest firmware for the momentus xt, and since seagate claims its an essential upgrade, i would like to install in also. The seagate momentus xt packs 750gb of capacity, with 8gb of slc nand flash, and a sata 6. The 750gb seagate momentus xt is a 7200rpm model, and supports the sata iii standard of 6gbs throughput.
While its easy to look at something like fast and shrug it off as marketing hype, the new momentus xt showed that the added cache and software do make a difference, boasting a 34%. Momentus xt solid state hybrid drive win your bragging rights back 3. Seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive hothardware. Seagate soups up laptop pc performance with fast, second. Seagates momentus xt 750gb hybrid hard drive the tech report. The new second generation seagate momentus xt hybrid drive promises to deliver faster performance and greater storage capacity at a fraction of the cost of a ssd. Jun 16, 2010 the seagate momentus xt wont give you nearly the same speed boost as an ssd, but it will definitely improve upon what youd get with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, and even a 7200rpm drive, in. It gives us a good idea of both the drives transfer rates. Seagate momentus xt the seagate momentus xt is the ideal choice for those who have been searching for a hard drive that offers the performance of a solid state drive without the premium price. Buy seagate momentus xt st750lx003 750gb 7200 rpm 32mb cache 2.
According to joni clark, seagate s product marketing manager, the company has switched nand flash vendors. Looking at the circuit board we can also see that both drives use the same hdd controller and motor driver. I purchased this seagate momentus xt 750gb internal serial ata solid state hybrid drive for my 2010 17 macbook laptop which had a 500gb 5400rpm hard drive. You can verify the proper firmware revision for your drive model and serial number using the drive detect software. On top of these technology to help improves the drives performance, the momentus xt is also backed by a very generous 5 year warranty. Nov 29, 2011 last year, seagate threw the storage world a curve when it released the original momentus xt, a 7,200rpm 250 or 500gb hard drive with the ability to cache your most commonly used files on its 4gb. Quite surprisingly, seagates momentus xt comes out on top in the maximum mbs transfer speed. The seagate momentus xt 750gb drive performed relatively well throughout our battery of tests. The origional drive is a seagate momentus st9750420as hard drive 750 gb sata300. When it comes down to the circuity behind the momentus xt gb and the older gb model before it, it really is quite impressive at how seagate can take a standard notebook hard drive and make it a hybrid storage device with a simple pcb swap. Seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive a top value.
The momentus xt flexes its fast hybrid muscles by racing against an ssd, a stock macbook pro ssd, and a 5400rpm drive. Examining rotational vibration in desktop vs enterprise 5. Plus, it utilizes a sata ii interface for blazingfast data transfers between the pc and ssd. Seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid hard drive pc world. The momentus xt is basically half the price for three times more storage space. 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. But it loses out to samsungs 830 on the percentage of fast iops and the dxti.
Sd28 you can verify the proper firmware revision for your drive model and serial number using the drive detect software. For anyone needing a laptop drive with mega capacity without giving up performance, the momentus 750gb is a clear winner. Dec, 2011 while seagate had the lofty goal of negating the need for an ssd with its first massmarket hybrid hdd, the reality was the momentus xt ended up being the best 2. Immediately the performance of my macbook improved. This drive is designed for all standard laptop pcs and is os, driverand software independent, making it easy to integrate and easy to use. Bootup times are significantly faster for windows 7 professional sp1. Seagate momentus laptop hard drive support quick start guide, installation, troubleshooting tips, downloads get support for momentus laptop hard drives here. Nov 29, 2011 the seagate momentus xt 750gb had a huge lead over any of its competition, with a random read speed of 0. Jun 01, 2010 naturally, weve included the old momentus 7200. In the lab with seagates momentus xt 750 gb hybrid hdd. The seagate momentus 750gb merges bestinclass capacity with reasonable performance and onboard alignment to offer a unique hard drive to the notebook space. As it fits the standard laptop drive dimensions, the momentus xt measures 9. It has a 32mb disk cache on top of its 8gb slc nand flash, with a quoted average latency of 4. Introduction the performance seen by modern laptops is at an alltime high.
While seagate had the lofty goal of negating the need for an ssd with its first massmarket hybrid hdd, the reality was the momentus xt ended up being the best 2. Seagate provided their 750gb, 7200 rpm momentus hard drive for testing and it performed quite nicely. The 16mg cache and high spindle speed really help this drive shine. I heard that these seagate hybrid ssd drives were speedy and i wanted more hdd space, so i decided to try one. Seagate then makes it a hybrid by adding a single 4gb slc. My laptop takes two drives and i had, a very short time earlier, already upgraded one of them the primary windows drive to a seagate 500gb 7200. To test the seagate momentus xt 750gb, we cloned our test rig drive to the drives. The old xts lower capacity points simply didnt sell well. Seagate momentus xt firmware update anandtech forums.
The original momentus xt was available in multiple capacities, but seagate is limiting the incoming drive to a single 750gb flavor. Seagate 750gb momentus xt solid state hybrid hard drive. Seagate momentus xt hybrid drive is a speed racer pcworld. To keep my aging macbook pro uptodate and uptospeed, ive replaced the internal harddisk with a seagate momentus xt hybridharddisk. The seagate momentus xt 750gb with fast factor doubles the cache nand and adds a 50% capacity boost when compared to the 500gb first generation momentus xt. By avram piltch online editorial director 29 november 2011. Solid state hybrid drive at the best online prices at ebay. Slc has a useful life of aroundwrite cycles with mlc reaching its limit atwrite cycles. Seagate momentus xt st750lx003 750gb 7200 rpm 32mb cache sata.
Seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive page 5 hothardware. As weve mentioned, the seagate momentus xt 750gb drive features 8gb of integrated slc nand flash, linked to the traditional platterbased storage via an. I upgraded my hp elitebook 8560w original hard drive toshiba 512gb with the seagate momentus xt solid state hybrid 750gb i bought on ebay. Dec 10, 2010 once again, the hybrid momentus xt produces a comfortable lead, but this time the scorpio black is able to jump in front of the newer momentus 750gb. The seagate momentus xt solid state hybrid drive combines ssdlike performance with affordable highcapacity hard drive storage for laptops, external backup and small form factor desktop pcs. Seagate momentus xt 750 gb bottom the seagate momentus xt 750 gb has a formatted capacity of 698.
Momentus xt 750gb what the experts are saying seagate blog. According to joni clark, seagates product marketing manager, the company has switched nand flash vendors. It is the same test drive weve been using on all of our drive testing and is nothing more than a clean windows load with all the drive testing software installed, as well as all the current drivers and patches for the os. Maximum pc november 2011 the 750gb momentus xt offers a solid speed boost in realworld applications that you use frequently, compared to a regular mechanical drive. Has anyone had any goodbad experiences with using this drive. Seagate momentus xt 500gb hd for macboo apple community. After some investigation im torn between these two hard drives. Whether youre into gaming, hd video, photography or musicsshd lets you play, create, and store as much digital content as you want, up to 750gb. The performance gains that were seen compared to the factory installed drive in our asus laptop are incredible. I mainly use my mbp for heavy browsing and some final cut expressimovie work with some light gaming wow, sc2.
Momentus xt vs momentus psd theres a huge difference 6. It offers a large 500gb storage capacity for storing tons of important files, documents, downloads, applications, and many more. I was thinking of grabbing a seagate momentus xt 500gb hd for my 2011 macbook pro i7,inch. The seagate momentus 750gb drive makes us wonder why we didnt get it sooner. The momentus xt hard drives serial ata 6gbsecond interface and 8 gigabytes of single level cell nand flash double the interface and nand readwrite. The seagate momentus xt wont give you nearly the same speed boost as an ssd, but it will definitely improve upon what youd get with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, and even a 7200rpm drive, in. I am aware that there are significant firmware updates that i should perform after install but i havent been able to find any information about where to find and how to install the update. Jun 12, 2011 i was thinking of grabbing a seagate momentus xt 500gb hd for my 2011 macbook pro i7,inch. Benchmark after benchmark resulted in the 7200 rpm, 16mb cache drive dominating the slower 5400rpm, 8mb cache drive. Seagates momentus xt starts with a standard 7200pm 2. Firmware update information for momentus xt drives. Seagate is perhaps most enthusiastic though about what theyre calling fast factor technology. Multicore processors are no longer restricted to desktops, dualgpus are now commonplace, and ram capacities.
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