Seagate Momentus XT 500GB review

A mutant hard drive born of SSD toxic waste

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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB
Hybrid HDD/SSD done right

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Seagate momentus xt

We've pitted the Momentous XT against one of the best traditional desktop drives around, a 1TB Hitachi Deskstar with 16MB cache, and OCZ's supremely powerful 120GB Vertex 2 SSD.

It's worth pointing out that the Vertex 2 currently costs £258, so we've also included a more realistic SSD, the Kingston V+ for comparison.

Sequential maximum read speeds

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Sequential maximum write speeds

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Seagate momentus xt 500gb benchmarks

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