Momentus® XT Solid State Hybrid Drives does it compatitble with macbook pro?

[Tim Red Beard]

@Tim Red Beard ... i never thought of using it as a storage drive. I currently have one for osx/apps and another for plugins/sound libraries i use for logic and protools. might have to buy another one from amazon. theyre 90$ now last time i checked and I got amazon prime.

I love Amazon Prime, NewEgg ran a odd promo a few weeks back where with a mail in rebate I ended up paying $70 bucks each for them (1 for me, 1 for my wife's Unibody MB) also got our RAM on Amazon with $10 dollar rebates, Corsair RAM was the brand very good reviews.

@goMac I'm not downplaying your problems by any stretch of the means, it sucks that you have them, both my drives came shipped with SD26 and I have had 0 problems with them. Trust me I did plenty of back and fourth reading various forums, sites and articles trying to decide on which drive to buy for my 2nd HD and ultimately the positives out weighed the negatives on the Seagate, but again if I have issues I know NewEgg stands behind their products.

@bb426, I'm keeping my setup the way it is, I won't waste the money on an SSD drive to use simply as a backup storage, it was just a momentary laughable outburst I'm most likely going to pull the trigger on another SSD for my older MacBook (Early 2008, Black) for school documentation while at class.

 

[elancias]

actually i recently bought my mbp but if i were to change the hard drive to Momentus XT then how do i transfer my data over to my new drive and what about the OS lion because recent laptop they doesnt have any OS CD anymore... anyone could advise thanks alot

 

[bb426]

actually i recently bought my mbp but if i were to change the hard drive to Momentus XT then how do i transfer my data over to my new drive and what about the OS lion because recent laptop they doesnt have any OS CD anymore... anyone could advise thanks alot

http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/

The above link is probably the easiest way to do so without using disk utility.

Then again, you can always go to Disk Utility and burn the "InstallESD.dmg" file from inside the "Install Mac OS X" App to a DVD or USB drive.

And to transfer your data, use Time Machine (you need an external HDD).

Though, personally, a clean install without Time Machine is always the most desirable install method for me (it is the best way to a problem-free system).

 

[MrJolly]

Interesting, but I'm having no issues with my battery life

How many hours do you get when running on battery? I was getting 5 to 7 hours on my MacBook Pro 15" late 2009 using the Apple 500GB HD and was charging it maybe once a week. I changed to the Momentus XT and that dropped to 3 hours.

 

[dsio]

I bought 4 MXTs when they came out, all one of the first batches, used under both Linux and OSX, one failed after a year (had nothing to do with the claims people are making about it, the drive was developing bad sectors). The other three are still going strong, the one that failed was my main drive and honestly had more heavy use in 1 year than most database server drives.

As for the design, its brilliant, the hybrid logic lets it boot and open apps 90% as fast as an SSD. You can actually train it, repeating a heavy read operation 3-4 times and it will remember it the next. SD25 firmware was always fine for me.

Some people had problems, I never took much notice of that and it didn't end up being an issue, people said similar things about Sandforce SSDs, and I ignored them too, frankly while there are a larger number of failures associated with some of the higher performance disk options on the market, you have to realize, new high performance hard disks also tend to be purchased more by loud-mouth enthusiasts of indeterminate skill, many of which I wouldn't trust unsupervised with a screwdriver. AMD had similar issues in the Athlon XP days with high return rates due to being very popular among the unemployed ~20 year old semi-competent aspiring professional counter-strike player market.

 

[Tim Red Beard]

actually i recently bought my mbp but if i were to change the hard drive to Momentus XT then how do i transfer my data over to my new drive and what about the OS lion because recent laptop they doesnt have any OS CD anymore... anyone could advise thanks alot

I bought an external case for my new drive it had FireWire 800 on it and I used Carbon Copy Cloner CCC (Freeware) I had about 43GB of data on my new drive was wasn't much cause I had all my music, videos & photos already stored on my network drive and it took less then 30 mins to transfer data from stock HD to the new one. Yes it does NOT copy the OS Lion Recovery Partition however I just made a USB Flash Drive installer for Lion and if I have issues I will use that.

@MrJolly, I will let you know about my battery life, I work from home so I rarely unplug my MBP from the charger right now, plus I don't know how accurate my battery life would be because the SGMXT isn't my primary drive.

I let you know if I see a decrease.

~TRB

 

[bb426]

My experience of battery life was fine, it ended up being just around 6 hours I had with my XT.

Now even with BOTH drives (XT in the Optibay, SSD in the HDD bay) I'm getting close to 6 1/2-7 hours of life, sometimes more if I turn some things off and reduce the brightness.