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: MobileMark 2007 And SYSmark 2007

The drive provides very much the same performance as a conventional Momentus 7200.4 in MobileMark.

However, battery time is clearly shorter on the new Momentus XT, which is because of its higher power at average loads. See the next page for details.

Overall, the Monentus XT provides clearly improved performance in SYSmark 2007, especially in video creation and e-learning.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos