Thread: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid

Mine boots lightning fast on my SSD RAID0 setup but isn't much faster than yours. Thats pretty impressive.

Anyone have some write thought put details. Looking at replacing the drive in my video editing array.

Originally Posted by Wrathlon

Mine boots lightning fast on my SSD RAID0 setup but isn't much faster than yours. Thats pretty impressive.

I am running two of em in RAID 0 also and now that everything is updated, antivirus installed ect. and multiple restarts it's averaging around a 30sec boot, not supersonic but certainly faster than the two raided 1Tb drives I had before. The scores in Windows experience rating aren't any better than a standard drive but I suppose that's not how these work, reviews are a bit mixed but the idea is just to speed up commonly used applications but even opening something for the first time is damn quick.

Can't wait to see these in 3.5" 10,000rpm with larger solid state cache and hopefully from a few manufacturers.

I think I'm starting to sound like a used car salesman.

I'll hold out for the 3.5" ones. If anyone spots em post!

just found out that one of the 500gb's been ordered for me to test

SCHWEET!

They have released some new Firmware for this drive. The main fix is the stop of stuttering. Sometimes watching videos would be stuttery because of the random spin ups and spin downs.

New firmware version: SD24

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This article applies to the following models.

ST92505610AS
ST93205620AS
ST95005620AS

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Momentus XT Firmware Update

Do take some care and read the reviews of the current firmware

i love this disk

however i have notice abit of stuttering when playing movies i figured it was my external :S


thanks

damn cant wait till these come out for 3.5 drives.

If you have it in RAID, you might want to do additional reading

Well mine arrived in the post today just before Xmas

Overall I'm running the 2.5 drive meant for a laptop in my main PC machine. Running Windows XP Pro. Have not noticed much difference in boot times but shut down times with WinXP is super super fast, blink of the eye fast.

Moving over to general performance. I would say I ran a pair of server grade raid 1 hard drives and even considering this is a laptop hard drive it kicks the crap out of them.

Overall opening word, excel, all the main applications I use including skype open instantly. Browsing a photo album is super fast.

Give it a thumbs up, if anyone is looking to upgrade their hard disk drives. Though I see soon all hard disk drive manufactures will start offering the hybrid drives next year.