Thinking about a new Laptop hard drive?

bigbazza · Aug 23, 2010

Check out a Seagate Momentus.

Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd

Today Seagate is attempting to change that with its latest Hybrid HDD: the Momentus XT.
More 918 Spyder than Prius

Simply put a Hybrid HDD is a mechanical drive with some NAND flash on it that is automatically used by the drive to store data for quicker access. A hybrid drive really just attempts to do what my setup of two drives (SSD + HDD) does manually: put small, frequently used data on NAND flash and put larger, less frequently used data on platters.

In theory you get the best of both worlds, the overall capacity of a HDD and (most of the time) the performance of an SSD.
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This is only a partial quote from the above link review.
I just bought one last week.:cool :-D

Bazza

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