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Seagate Momentus XT: Apple Support Communities

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Seagate Momentus XT: Apple Support Communities. So the bottom line here seem to be that more people had problems than success with this. I would avoid this drive, even though generally I have had good experiences with Seagate. It seems to have issues with vibration which isn’t helpful since it is supposed to be a laptop drive.

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Intel SSD with 6Gbps performance

a 2.5 inch Solid state disk, E-disk from Bitmicro
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This is kind of silly. For the price of $284 120GB drive is a hard sell for most people. When laptops (get information to fix a laptop here) are a few hundred dollars more with a standard drive, I doubt the average person would say “Hey let me install and use this.” Intel needs to focus on reducing price to make it more popular. Other good SSD options include this 1TB or this Micron.

 

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Avoid Seagate’s Momentus XT hybrid next-gen hybrid drive

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Users frustrated with Seagates next-gen hybrid drive Storage. Usually Seagate has a good reputation for quality.  Even the recent firmware upgrade didn’t completely solve the issues.  I would get another model and skip this one.

 

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The Momentus Seagate Momentus XT (via Simon Taylor’s Weblog)

Easy instructions if you want to upgrade your laptop.

The Momentus Seagate Momentus XT I already had a 500GB hard drive in my computer (a MacBook Pro) and 4GB of memory, but I was looking for the next upgrade, the computer still being fairly current and only a year old. Perceived wisdom would say upgrade to 8GB of memory, but a new breed of disk drive has been introduced which in my opinion changes this. Solid State Drives have been around for a while, but they are prohibitively expensive, being well over £1500 for a 500GB drive, 8 … Read More

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