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Seagate revs up laptops
HARD DRIVE MAKER Seagate has started shipping its Momentus XT drive to the channel and OEMs, and the drive has already popped up in an Asus gaming laptop.
The Momentus XT drive combines SSD-like performance with massive capacity at much lower cost, according to Seagate, and includes Adaptive Memory to make the most of its resources. Seagate said that over a period of time this could build up a profile of a user and move frequently accessed information onto the flash memory for faster access.
Seagate is bragging about the drive's performance, claiming that it boots up 100 per cent faster than traditional 5400RPM drives and has set new benchmarks for both laptops and gaming systems.
The Momentus XT combines a 7200RPM spin speed with 4GB of solid state memory, and the company expects that it will shake things up a bit. "We see the Momentus XT drive as a game changer, a product heralding a new generation of hard drives that combine SSD and HDD capabilities so that laptop users don't have to make trade-offs on speed, cost or capacity," said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president of sales, marketing and product line management. But then, he would say that, wouldn't he.
Laptop PC manufacturer Asus is already offering the drive as an upgrade on its catchily named G73Jh notebook. "With the Momentus XT drive, ASUS gives gaming customers who prefer the ASUS ROG G73 the capacity they need and the performance they crave," said the man with the most appropriate name in the business, P.C. Wang, vice president of the Asus systems business group. "Seagate's innovative solid state hybrid drive hands down delivers the best value, capacity and SSD-like performance to a wide audience."
Another option has also been announced, the Momentus 750GB, 7200RPM drive. This model offers a SATA 3Gb/sec interface with NCQ and a 16MB cache, with silent acoustics and low power consumption. µ
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I would be much more interested to know what Seagate did to improve product reliability and internal accountability than to read about some new flashy performance points and cost advantages.
Nobody who is attached to his precious data should trust a new HD line before checking a 6 months in-the-wild actual data.
P.C. Wang ROFL! You guys crack me up!
Catch 'Em with header, Then Slog 'Em Down. O/S?,Combee' Stuff seems to Go Faster than processor. Who Needs Map at 500 Miles per sec. thats 1.8 Mil Miles per hr. Actually Gets there Before user Knows left. Now Thats Journalism, Today. SSD under Left Ear, then Wham HDD In Gut.
Next Flash Makers will admitt Flash Cost Less to manfacture than DDR2,3,& 5. ALL Been Bunk To Rip Pub of Excess Cash. PS Lappee' Fits into Desktop with adapters.
For Just HDD, western Digital has good reviews. yet just Sunday 1TB down to $49. What If Player Is 'Tard Gamer, Think of that, Tomorrow, when find out where ALL Was or Will Be.Could SataIII Do As Well?
drashek
I am not pro or contra of any OS, so this is just a comment on comments of some one-sided minds
First, Win 7 is built with such technology in mind, see its spec.
Second, as anyone can expect, this gaming laptop is also for Windows not the OSX or Linux.
And third, it's the harddrive manufacturers who are actually 2-3 years late to the market.
Great they finally started to make them as promised years ago. Now SSDs will start faster drop in price
Always had good results with Western Digital drives but this concept seems pretty cool. My hard drive is the slowest performer in my gaming rig and it is a new WD SATA II drive so this would be cool to bring up the drive performance in 7-64bit game rating.
And since the decision of whether to store given blocks in SSD or HD is done entirely within the drive, it's completely OS-independent.
I want one.
Like any newly released technology, there's probably some technical shortcoming in Windows that prevents it from being used. The PCtards will blame everyone except Microsoft, where the blame truly lies. Meanwhile, newer, bigger, faster hardware, it's all business as usual for Linux and OSX.