Seagate Ships 1 Million Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drives

[Sam_Reynolds]

Seagate has shipped its one millionth solid state hybrid drive for laptop PCs after launching the product – Momentus XT – in spring 2010. Major computer makers including Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Sony and Toshiba now offer laptops powered by the 2.5-inch drive that blends performance rivaling solid state drives with the enormous capacity and much lower cost of hard disk drives.

Read more here: Seagate Ships 1 Million Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drives | Hardware Canucks

[frontier204]

Hopefully that means we'll see more of this kind of drive in the future. Of course there's the ability to use a separate SSD as cache like with the Z68 chipset, but having the SSD and HDD in a package means you don't have the added latency of bouncing signals off two drives on a storage controller.
Seagate should really make the Barracuda XT a hybrid drive like this one to justify its high price.

For my laptop (which I'm typing this post on), it's great because it definitely shaves off boot times for Windows 7 compared to a normal HDD. They should work on the power consumption though - there's a noticeable dip in battery life from a regular 7200RPM laptop drive.

[_dangtx_]

perhaps in the future all mechanical(or non ssd type) drives will have a couple or more gig little ssd in them.

perfect os+storage solution,all in one...

say 120gb ssd on a 4+tb drive? :)

[LarkStarr]

I've been itching to try out one of these drives.

[Keywork]

Originally Posted by LarkStarr

I've been itching to try out one of these drives.

Me too. I've been contemplating grabbing a 500GB one for my laptop for a while now..