Momentus XT 750 GB Review: A Second-Gen Hybrid Hard Drive
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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.
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Benchmark Results: Throughput And Streaming Performance
Streaming reads testing reveals that the new Momentus XT 750 GB is, in fact, quite a bit faster than the older 500 GB first-generation drive. However, its performance is very much like other 7200 RPM drives in the 2.5” space, so there are no surprises there.
CrystalDiskMark confirms the results we get with Iometer when testing sequential read or write performance.
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