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The Seagate Momentus XT is a 2.5-inch solid state hybrid drive: a 7200 RPM 500GB hard disk with 32MB of cache and a small flash layer that caches frequently used data. It was built as a drop-in upgrade for laptops and game consoles that take a 9.5mm 2.5-inch drive, giving faster boots and app launches than a plain 7200 RPM drive without the capacity cost of an SSD. Its interface is SATA II at 3Gb/s, so it will not saturate a SATA III port. Against a same-era SSD it is slower and more fragile; against a plain hard drive it feels quicker once the cache warms up.
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Lowest price we've seen: $18.95 on Nov 13 at eBay. Tracked across 6 stores since Nov 13.
Owners rate it well as a cheap way to speed up an aging laptop, with most praise going to faster boots and app loads after the cache settles in. Critics note that it is still a mechanical drive and that the gains are inconsistent.
The Seagate Momentus XT (model ST500LX003) is a 500GB solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). It comes in a 2.5-inch, 9.5 mm form factor and connects over SATA.
The drive spins at 7200 RPM and has a 32 MB cache.
