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Seagate Momentus XT

Xombie11 said:
@MikhailT

Regardless, it's a far better solution than a low capacity (~128gb) SSD and an Optibay 5400rpm HD.
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Thanks for the info, I didn't know you could do that with a macbook.
I have indeed a 120gb SSD + a 500gb in place of the optical drive in my thinkpad laptop and I really love that setup. It's great for performance and backup.
Might consider this setup for the macbook pro I want to buy next month.

Update: on second thought, I wonder if you could install 2 momentus XT (main + Optibay) and setup your macbook in RAID 0.
 
hatbrox said:
Thanks for the info, I didn't know you could do that with a macbook.
I have indeed a 120gb SSD + a 500gb in place of the optical drive in my thinkpad laptop and I really love that setup. It's great for performance and backup.
Might consider this setup for the macbook pro I want to buy next month.

Update: on second thought, I wonder if you could install 2 momentus XT (main + Optibay) and setup your macbook in RAID 0.
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those were my toughts exactly run them in a raid 0 setup and get blazing for cheap and massive storage :)
 
0ct0 said:
those were my toughts exactly run them in a raid 0 setup and get blazing for cheap and massive storage :)
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The question is how does the flash handle being in raid-0 setup and does it work being in RAID0? We haven't seen any information regarding to that.
 
MikesGravity said:
Ordered it from TigerDirect.com Shipped yesterday and UPS site says I will have it tomorrow :D
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cant wait to hear how it works for you... I will def be picking one of these up if they are noticeably faster than my WD scorpio blue 500GB....
 
Has anyone found a place in Canada that has this drive in stock? Newegg Canada and Amazon Canada don't have them yet and NCIX is out of stock for now. Only Tiger Direct has them, but they ship in 5-7 days. I can't find a single place in the US that ships to Canada... anyone can help?
 
winninganthem said:
Please post some XBench tests.
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Xbench is outdated and the Momentus XT is actually scoring low on xbench.
While it might half your startup and launch of apps, it still doesn't improve xbench, which is purely a syntetic benchmark.
Expect 40-50ish range.
 
mathieuplante said:
Has anyone found a place in Canada that has this drive in stock? Newegg Canada and Amazon Canada don't have them yet and NCIX is out of stock for now. Only Tiger Direct has them, but they ship in 5-7 days. I can't find a single place in the US that ships to Canada... anyone can help?
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For those of you in Canada, NCIX now says that they have the 500 GB model in stock for 151.46$ CAD: "This item is in stock and will ship as soon as possible. Usually ships in 1-2 business days." I just ordered one, hope everything goes smoothly. The 250 and 320 GB models are still back ordered.

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=53491&vpn=ST95005620AS&manufacture=Seagate
 
The drive is installed and all is good, very good ;)

See my original post for original times.

My reboot time dropped to 26 seconds! Yes, 26 seconds!

Photoshop now opens and loads in 7 seconds! Safari and iTunes and stuff open instantly (not just from the dock, from being closed completely).

XBench:
http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=448467&doc2=1&setCookie=true
(The XBench times are to be taken with a grain of salt, as someone else mentioned).
 
MikesGravity said:
The drive is installed and all is good, very good ;)

See my original post for original times.

My reboot time dropped to 26 seconds! Yes, 26 seconds!

Photoshop now opens and loads in 7 seconds! Safari and iTunes and stuff open instantly (not just from the dock, from being closed completely).

XBench:
http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=448467&doc2=1&setCookie=true
(The XBench times are to be taken with a grain of salt, as someone else mentioned).
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How about the noise and vibration?
 
oplix said:
Hey are you sure you are not getting any vibration from this drive? I read that a few people are noticing vibration. Noise levels aren't bothersome?
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I'm honestly not experiencing any vibration. Noise might be a LITTLE louder but seriously, almost exactly the same as the OEM drive.

I dragged and dropped 80+ gigs of music from my external, where the drive is obviously spinning. No vibration and barely any sound. When I had my old white, plastic Macbook and put a 7200 drive in, it vibrated and was loud. Not the case with my aluminum body.
 
rmcwhae said:
Did you clone your previous hard drive onto the Momentus XT? The guys at InfoWorld seemed to think that cloning might actually degrade performance: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/seagate-xt-hybrid-drive?page=0,1

Also, I know this is early, but does dual-booting have an effect on the Momentus XT?
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I never clone. I always just backup in Time Machine and drag and drop all my documents/music/apps/pictures, etc. into the fresh install drive.

Haven't dual booted yet, sorry.
 
You have my seriously considering one of these now. I wanted to get an SSD, but I can't stomach the cost of one yet and don't have to have to make trade offs (too small or lose optical drive) in order to make one work for me. I'm starting to think the XT will be a good temporary solution. Sounds like it provides a solid performance boost and will tide me over until SSD costs are more palatable.
 
I'm curious as to why they think cloning would degrade performance. I don't see a big difference between that and starting with a clean slate.

In my opinion it would be an advantage to clone your existing drive. From my understanding this drive will learn the most used reads, in a cloning process you will just write a lot of data to the drive, nothing will be learned at that point. Once you boot up it will start learning as you will read from the drive.

Will get mine in a couple of days, I will definitely clone my old one.
 
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