Before we get to the promised awesomeness of Seagate’s new hybrid drive for laptops, let’s get into laptop storage basics. Traditional hard disk drives (HDD) will give you the best price-per-gigabyte storage ratio, although they’re considerably slower than solid state drives. SSD on the other hand, come with a lower storage ceiling and are much more expensive, but offer faster performance, are more robust and energy-efficient—thanks mainly to the absence of moving parts. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s what this drive is all about: Seagate managed to merge SSD and HDD tech into the Momentus XT’s 2.5-inch frame, making for a laptop drive that’s cheaper than SSDs, faster than HDDs, and with a storage ceiling that tops off at 500GBs.
That’s pretty much what they’re promising, and that’s basically all you’d need to know. But if you need the details, here’s what they managed to pack into the Momentus XT: main storage comes in the form of a 7,200rpm hard drive with a 32MB of DDR3 cache. Performance is helped along with the 4GB SLC solid state memory that should make for faster boot and load times, plus something called “Adaptive Memory” that’s in there to remember used apps and optimize performance.
The Momentus XT is available in three capacities (250GB, 320GB, and 500GB), with prices that start at $113. It’s a bit more expensive than standard HDDs, but if you’re looking for performance (it’s being pushed for use on high-end gaming notebooks and external drive enclosures with a faster eSATA or USB 3.0 interface), it sounds like a pretty good deal.
We should see the drive installed into or offered as an upgrade option for upcoming performance notebooks soon. Asus has announced that they’ll be offering the drive as an option for the G73Jh gaming laptop.
Tags: Asus, Hard Drives, Notebooks, Seagate, SSD, Storage
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