Seagate has announced their second generation solid state hybrid drive sshd, the momentus xt 750gb with fast factor. Ive already used up about 300gb on my internal and applications, even typing can get slow. On paper and in specific benchmarks it looks amazing but has problems. Sd28 firmware is the newest firmware and resolves the corruption issues and uses the ssd section of the disk. Seagate momentus xt 500gb 500gb sata hard drive 500 gb, hard drive 2. Hybrid harddrive comparison, seagate momentus xt vs. Enter your serial number to find firmware downloads for your drive. Buy the seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive at a super low price. Caching, wear leveling, and performance monitoring, all have to. I used the sandisk ready cache 32gb on my work computer while it still had a spinner and that was a pretty good implementation of cacheing. Momentus xt what the experts are saying seagate blog.
Comparison of a conventional hard drive seagate momentus 7200. To keep my aging macbook pro uptodate and uptospeed, ive replaced the internal harddisk with a seagate momentus xt hybridharddisk. Ive played with an early version of this firmware and it does improve performance tremendously. It doesnt get 5 because before i installed it i looked into updating the firmware as suggested on many forums to improve mac performance, and found the updating procedure to be rather backwards basically you can only do it easily if you.
I installed a momentus xt 750 st750lx0031ac154 firmware sm12 into my macbook pro late 2009. Solid state hybrid drive at the best online prices at ebay. Continued use of our website indicates your consent to our usage of cookies. Seagate momentus laptop hard drive support quick start guide, installation, troubleshooting tips, downloads get support for momentus laptop hard drives here.
The momentus xt is much faster than the momentus, but still a more than respectable distance away from achieving ssd status. The intent is adding some of the speed of ssds to the costeffective storage capacity of traditional hdds. The new momentus xt adds 250gb of total capacity over the firstgeneration xt as well as double the cache nand, going from 4gb to 8gb of slc nand. This was tested by a user on the thread i will link below. Wd scorpio black 750gb vs wd scorpio black 500gb vs. The momentus xt drive doesnt need it enabled according this page. Plus, it utilizes a sata ii interface for blazingfast data transfers between the pc and ssd. Im thinking about replacing my internal 500 gb 5400rpm hd in my macbook pro 5. Early next year 750gb momentus xt owners will get a firmware update adding write caching support. The original momentus drive it is basically using is not good and it needs firmware aka software to tell it. Momentus xt 2nd gen causes system freezes i replaced my hdd in my mid2009 a1297 17 mbp as soon as the 750g momentus xt was released into the stores. The seagate momentus xt drive offers hybrid storage with adaptive memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacities up to 500 gb and ssdlike performance. Once again, the hybrid momentus xt produces a comfortable lead, but this time the scorpio black is able to jump in front of the newer momentus 750gb.
Upgrades are frequently released by the manufacture but it only happens when particular model of a phone gets older. Seagates older momentus xt hybrids are also in the mix, of course. This drive is designed for all standard laptop pcs and is os, driver and softwareindependent, making it easy to integrate and easy to use. It gives us a good idea of both the drives transfer rates. General prosense xtsoft pc software is a utility program that allows users to easily configure prosense xth0unv and xtd0unv temperature transmitters, prosense xtp series temperature transmitter probes, or prosense ets series digital temperature sensors. It offers a large 500gb storage capacity for storing tons of important files, documents, downloads, applications, and many more. Discussion in hardware components and aftermarket upgrades started by titansrule527, apr 29, 2011. Our cookie statement explains the types of cookies we use and how to manage them. Performance is still solid and a definite improvement over the tired old 7200.
Firmware update information for momentus xt drives. As its name implies, hd tune is a pretty standard benchmark for hard drive benchmarking. Seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive hothardware. Momentus xt vs momentus psd theres a huge difference 6. The nand flash is used as sort of a fast access repository to store commonly used data, though at 4gb, the ssd portion of this hybrid drive accounts for only 0. In computing, a hybrid drive solid state hybrid drive sshd is a logical or physical storage device that combines a faster storage medium such as solidstate drive ssd with a highercapacity hard disk drive hdd. Order the seagate st95005620as momentus xt 500gb solid state hybrid drive today. Momentus xt 750gb firmware full guides for download and. Lately i have been getting odd hangs of applications and eventually the os, finally i have to hardpower it down and reboot. Home forums hardware, software and accessories hardware components and aftermarket upgrades wd scorpio black 750gb vs wd scorpio black 500gb vs momentus xt 500gb. You can verify the proper firmware revision for your drive model and serial number using the drive detect software. Seagate is perhaps most enthusiastic though about what theyre calling fast factor. Examining rotational vibration in desktop vs enterprise 5.
Sd26 firmware basically turns the momentus xt drive into a plain ol platter drive and does not actually use the ssd area of the drive. How to download and update momentus xt 750gb firmware one of the most popular mobile phones brands on the market are htc phones, therefore when it get dated it is important to know how to update android firmware on htc. Seagate 500gb momentus xt solid state hybrid hard drive. As weve mentioned, the seagate momentus xt 750gb drive features 8gb of integrated slc nand flash, linked to the traditional platterbased storage via an. I was hoping the problem with my old momentus xt 500g had been fixed. Seagate is perhaps most enthusiastic though about what theyre calling fast factor technology. Its too bad they never expanded on this in any meaniful way. To say i liked the original momentus xt would be an understatement. Seagate momentus xt 500gb 500gb sata hard drive 500.
Ive found on the internet that seagates sd28 is the latest firmware for the momentus xt, and since seagate claims its an essential upgrade, i would like to install in also. Of course, that means the momentus xt combines the complexities of a hard drive with the heavy dependence on firmware of an ssd. In the lab with seagates momentus xt 750 gb hybrid hdd. Seagates momentus xt solid state hybrid drive 750gb. The momentus xt drive is designed for all standard laptop pcs and is os, driver and software independent, making this drive easy to integrate and easy to use. Momentus xt solid state hybrid drive win your bragging rights back 3. The momentus xt flexes its fast hybrid muscles by racing against an ssd, a macbook pro and a 5400rpm drive.
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