Momentus XT 750 GB Review: A Second-Gen Hybrid Hard Drive

By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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When a little bit of flash memory is good, more must be better, right? Seagate's second-generation Momentus XT hybrid hard drive is out to compete with SSDs, even as it delivers capacities typical of laptop-oriented 2.5" mobile disks.

Benchmark Results: CrystalDiskMark 4 KB And 512 KB Random Read/Write

The Momentus XT’s cache memory is designed to accelerate operations that are seen to happen repeatedly. Hence, it does not come as a surprise that the drive fails to accelerate the important 4 KB random operations.

CrystalDiskMark 4 KB Random Read/Write

512 KB Random Read/Write

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos