Seagate Momentus XT news

Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB Hybrid Hard Drive

By TechwareLabs, published 27-02-2012

Western Digital Cuts Hard Drive Warranties – Seagate Follows Suit

By MaximumPC, published 18-12-2011

Western Digital and Seagate are leaders in mechanical hard drives to be sure, but I think we can all agree this time they are leading the industry in a very negative direction. Back in 2008 Seagate lowered the standard HDD warranty from 5 years to 3, and as expected, just about everyone followed suit shortly after. Now they are dropping the coverage period on some products to as little as one year depending on the model. Here is what we’ve hammered down so far: Western Digital Caviar Blue, Green, and Scorpio Blue – Drops to 2 years. Caviar Black, Scorpio Black, and external drives – Stay at 3 years. Seagate Constellation 2, Barracuda XT, and ES.2 – Stays at 3 years. Barracuda, Barracuda Green, and Momentus – Drops to 1 year. In addition to the consumer backlash reta...

Seagate ships second generation of Momentus® XT

By Bjorn3D, published 30-11-2011

SSD's are fast but small. HDD's are large and slower. How do you get the best of both worlds? Ask Seagate. CUPERTINO, Calif. – November 28, 2011 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is now shipping the second generation of Momentus® XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the

Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

By TechwareLabs, published 29-11-2011

Seagate's Momentus XT 750GB hybrid hard drive

By TechReport, published 29-11-2011

For most folks, hybrids are probably the future of PC storage. Flash memory's near-instantaneous access times are a performance benefit too good to pass up. At the same time, NAND flash's relatively high cost per gigabyte, combined with our ever-growing thirst for storage capacity, ensures mechanical platters will remain in a supporting role for the foreseeable future. Music and movie archives aren't likely to benefit from the wicked-fast access times of solid-state storage, anyway.On the desktop, cobbling together a hybrid solution is as easy as putting a hard drive and an SSD in the same system. Users are free to manage the distribution of data between the two or to rely on ...Read more...

Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Drive

By HotHardware, published 29-11-2011

Seagate’s first Momentus XT hybrid drive arrived about a year and a half ago. The original drive featured a 500GB hard drive paired to 4GB of SLC NAND flash and a SATA 3.0 interface. At the time of its release, the original Momentus XT turned out to be a rather compelling product. Its price was relatively low and Seagate’s adaptive...

Tutorial: How to boost your hard drive speed

By TechRadar, published 29-10-2011

Speed up your hard drive: Intel Smart ResponseWe're living in the 21st century right? Sure, if you look out of the windows there may be no flying cars or orbiting space hotels, and you're definitely not basking in the heat of a fusion reactor generating endless free power.But, if you wait several minutes, your Windows PC may just manage to provide a desktop that you can check the date with. Despite it being a new century and there being an abundance of silicon storage, the world is still plagued by slow-spinning mechanical hard drives.It seems you're not the only person to notice this dichotomy, as Intel with its latest Z68 chipset has introduced a technology that enables you to break free of those mechanical shackles and unleash the lightning speed of solid state storage. Its Smart Respon...

Hardware Roundup

By HotHardware, published 10-02-2011

Video: Sapphire 6850 Vapor-X @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire A75 Pure Platinum Mainboard Review @ Rage3D.com ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe (A75) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Memory and Storage: Patriot Pyro 120GB Solid State Drive Review @ APH Networks Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Review @ eTeknix.com Power: In Win Glacier...

How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

By MaximumPC, published 24-08-2011

Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. Storage. Always needed, often overlooked. Often lost in the buzz surrounding the latest DirectX 11 GPUs and hexacore CPUs is the ability to actually store and retrieve your stuff. Your applications, games, photographs, digital music and everything else lives on your hard drive. But that boring old rotating magnetic disk just doesn’t seem exciting or high tech – even though the technology in a hard drive is actually pretty incredible. One technology that has made storage a little sexier is SSDs – solid state drives based on flash memory technology. But SSDs aren’t a perfect solution, as we’ll see shortly. We�...

Seagate Ships 1 Million Hybrid SSD--Momentus XT

By Bjorn3D, published 08-10-2011

Seagate has a great success with their 2.5'' Solid State Hybrid Drives, the Momentus XT. The company has announced that it has shipped its one millionth drive. Introduced in spring 2010, the Momentus is not your typical mechanical drive as it features 4GB of NAND inside the moving platters for data caching. Using Seagate's propr

Seagate Celebrates 1 Million Solid State Hybrid Drive Shipments

By MaximumPC, published 08-09-2011

Do you go for oodles of affordable storage in your next PC build with a mechanical hard drive, or raid your son's piggy bank and splurge on an ultra-fast solid state drive? You could go with both -- SSD for the OS, HDD for storage chores -- but that's the most expensive option of all. There's somewhat of a happy medium available in Seagate's Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, of which Seagate said it shipped 1 million units since last year. Market research firm IDC says that's just the beginning. "Seagate's shipment of its one millionth Momentus XT drive is just the beginning of a bright future for solid state hybrid drives," said John Rydning, research director at IDC. "Fast, capacious, and economical hybrid HDD and NAND flash storage solutions like the Momentus XT drive will be found ...

In Depth: Tips and tweaks to upgrade your laptop for gaming

By TechRadar, published 21-03-2011

Time then to lift the lid on your laptop and delve into its inner sanctum. The juicy technology sandwiched between its chassis is simply ripe for tinkering, and while manufacturers say you shouldn't, we're going to look at how opening up the case can reap rich performance rewards. Figures show that we've all been buying more laptops than desktops over the last few years and it's predicted that desktop sales will remain flat while laptop sales continue to post double-digit increases. In other words, we'll all be buying laptops while upgrading the one main desktop at home. So it's time we took a close look at how you can overhaul and game on a tired old laptop. The biggest single disappointment when attempting a laptop upgrade is the steadfast, single-minded blocking the industry and manufac...

In Depth: Tips and tweaks to upgrade your laptop for gaming

By TechRadar, published 21-03-2011

Time then to lift the lid on your laptop and delve into its inner sanctum. The juicy technology sandwiched between its chassis is simply ripe for tinkering, and while manufacturers say you shouldn't, we're going to look at how opening up the case can reap rich performance rewards. Figures show that we've all been buying more laptops than desktops over the last few years and it's predicted that desktop sales will remain flat while laptop sales continue to post double-digit increases. In other words, we'll all be buying laptops while upgrading the one main desktop at home. So it's time we took a close look at how you can overhaul and game on a tired old laptop. The biggest single disappointment when attempting a laptop upgrade is the steadfast, single-minded blocking the industry and manufac...