Momentus XT Review: Seagate's Marriage Of The HDD And Flash Memory

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By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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Update: with more real-world testing under our belts, Seagate's Momentus XT is receiving our rare Best of Tom's award for excellent performance. This new hybrid hard drive combines up to 500GB of storage and 4GB of flash memory to maximize performance.

Benchmark Results: PCMark Vantage, Repeated

We added the following results to see how the Momentus XT performs as it gets the opportunity to learn user behavior and identify frequently-used data. The performance increase after a few test runs (benchmark and restart) was significant, and leads to PCMark Vantage performance that is at the level of a Western Digital VelociRaptor drive.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos