Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review
Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal computers.
Its 2.5-inch form factor drive is utilized SATA 6GB/s interface and probably 7200 rpm.
The Momentus XT 750GB SSHD is brings Seagate’s Adaptive Memory and FAST Factory technologies.
This drive is 50 percent more capacity than the previous model, 1.5x faster, generation, and also double the NAND flash.
Seagate Momentus XT drive is currently shipping and retail price of 750GB unit is $245.
Seagate Momentus XT Specifications:
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ
- 2.5″ 9mm body
- 8GB SLC Flash
- Capacity: 750GB (698.63GB Formatted)
- Cache: 32MB
- 4K sector size
- >600,000 Load/Unload Cycles
- Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
- Unrecoverable read errors: 1 in 10^14
- Average idle power: 1.1W
- Average seek power: 3.3W
- Acoustics (Idle Volume): 2.3 bels
- Acoustics (Seek Volume): 2.6 bels
- Operating Shock 350G, 1000G Non-Operating
- Size: 69.85 x 100.35 x 9.5mm
- Weight: 115g
Review of Seagate Momentus XT
Momentus XT 750GB & the MacBook Pro
Momentus XT 750GB & the Dell 15Z
Momentus XT 750GB vs. the 10K SATA Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJm3suAKins
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