This is a walk-through of a new Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive from Seagate (the Momentus XT). The video shows pre and post installation benchmarks & boot-up time as well as how to clone and install the drive. More information can be found at: http://www.hightechdad.com/?p=9741
kinda disappointing o_O; i expected better performances, but how does the drive works then? i thought that it would be like "2 drives in one" with on one side a small (say 10Go) SSD memory and on the other a conventional hard drive ô_ô
pixelsafoison 1 week ago
@pixelsafoison The interesting thing is, over time, the performance gets better and the drive "learns" your behavior. If you had 2 drives as you outline, you would have a much higher price point.
HighT3chDad 1 week ago
Thanks for making this video. I have been considering this drive for an upgrade for my MacBook Pro for a while. Some of the reviews I read said they developed some file system errors when they cloned another drive to this, have you had any problems like that? Also, how does this thing handle video editing, I'll be using Final Cut Pro and you need some decent transfer rates but anything is better than this stock drive. Current drive tops out around 50-55MB/s.
Contreramanjaro 1 month ago
@Contreramanjaro I upgraded a PC. Didn't have any issues w/ the cloning of the drive. But, I have looked at some other reviews and there seem to be many happy Mac customers who have done the upgrade. Good luck!
HighT3chDad 1 month ago