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Manufacturer: Seagate Technology Part number: ST95005620AS
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- The Momentus XT is an excellent replacement for traditional laptop hard drives. It offers large capacities and SSD-like performance at a fraction of the cost.
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CNET editors' review
Seagate Momentus XT (500GB) price range: $125.00 - $219.23
- Reviewed by: Dong Ngo
- Edited by: Donald Bell
- Reviewed on: 05/24/2010
The good: The Seagate Momentus XT offers excellent performance at a price that's significantly lower than solid state drives (SSDs). It offers a larger capacity than SSDs and comes with a generous five-year warranty.
The bad: When compared with traditional hard drives, the Momentus XT is more expensive and currently caps at 500GB. The drive doesn't support the new SATA 6Gbps data transfer rate.
The bottom line: The Momentus XT is an excellent replacement for traditional laptop hard drives. It offers large capacities and SSD-like performance at a fraction of the cost.
User reviews
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The Drive simply...WORKS AS ADVERTISED!
by emaildejan on August 12, 2010
Pros: Significantly speeds up boot times of OS and other frequently used apps; also works with accelerating load times on my PS3
Cons: It isn't cheap; it can be rather loud even when compared to other 7200rpm drives
Summary: Well, let's see. If you are in the market and have $130 to plunk down on a 500GB drive, then this very well may be the laptop drive for ...
Summary: Well, let's see. If you are in the market and have $130 to plunk down on a 500GB drive, then this very well may be the laptop drive for you. I have two of them. The first went into my PlayStation3. Installation was quick and easy (just followed the PS3 instructions). Formatting was taken care of by the PS3. The biggest annoyance was transferring the data from the stock 60GB hard drive to this new 500GB monster...but I think that's more my issue.
Anyhow, once I had the data transferred...the start up of the PS3 games that I played 3 times in a row were significantly faster to load. For example, Assassin's Creed (ACI) and Assassin's Creed II (ACII) both loaded their levels MUCH FASTER (in less than 10 sec versus the standard 20+ seconds in ACI). Music and video play nearly instantly. This may also be due to the fact that the stock 60GB drive was a 5400 rpm drive. But swapping the OEM 60GB drive back into the PS3 proved just how slow the original drive really was. So the Momentus is in the PS3 to stay (until/unless Seagate comes out with a bigger drive).
After seeing this performance on the PS3 (which I'm seriously satisfied with), I opted to plunk another $130 down for another Momentus XT for my laptop. While boot up time wasn't significantly improved (I MIGHT have seen up to a 5 sec improvement), the real benefit is in typical program boot-up. MS Office snaps opened within 3 seconds (usually took 20 sec). Civilization IV (normally taking approximately a solid minute or so to boot up) was up and ready to play (well, the home screen anyway) within 20 seconds! HUGE SPEED UPGRADE THERE! And just to prove to myself how much of a speed boost I was noticing, I swapped out the Momentus and put back the OEM drive I had...and it was again like night and day...the OEM drive was far too slow, and I put the Momentus XT back in within a few minutes. I'm using the OEM drive as merely a media storage backup now.
As I said, this drive isn't cheap. $130 for only 500GB is a bit steep. However, comparing it to a Raptor 10,000rpm drive and to a true Solid State Drive is telling: the drive performs somewhere in between the two, depending on the application(s). I haven't done those tests, but I have seen some of my IT guys at the office compare this drive, and their data appears to show that it is typically about 10-25% faster than a 10K rpm drive. Given how expensive 10K rpm drives can be and the limited memory space they offer, that makes the Momentus XT a serious bargain!
However, like those 10k rpm drives, this one isn't quiet...at least no where near as quiet as Seagate would like you to believe. It's loud (relatively speaking). The 60GB drive on the PS3 is dead silent compared to this thing. Will the noise drown out your gaming audio? Of course not, but the first time I heard ACI boot up, I thought the hard drive was going to crash on me. But, after using it for a while, I now realize it's just one LOUD drive. It is somewhat louder than most 7200 rpm drives that I have used, including other 2.5" and 3.5" drives. Still, it's not as bad (loud) as a Raptor drive, but it can be mildly annoying at times.
Overall, will you notice a significant speed boost if you're replacing a stock solid state drive with this thing? Of course not. Will you notice a speed boost when compared to 6GB/s SATA capable drives? I don't know...maybe, but I doubt it would be significant. Is it going to be faster than most 3GB/s SATA drives? I'd say definitely...just don't assume you'll catch lightning in a bottle. It will be faster than probably 90% of the drives out there given similar stats, but the way technology keeps improving, that lead may be temporary.
So, if you need a 500GB laptop drive and want something faster than most 2.5" 7200 drives, but don't want to get a SSD (since those are SERIOUSLY expensive), then the Momentus XT is a GREAT buy. Just install, format, and after using the typical programs maybe a dozen times...you'll see a significant performance boost over your old drive.4 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Fast and efficient sums up this new drive.
by habelk on October 22, 2011
Pros: When combined with Windows 7, this drive has improved start-up significantly over Vista (1 minutes from power off to internet versus 5).
Cons: Price is a bit high, but appears to be worth it.
Summary: The better judge will be to review again in one years time.
Summary: The better judge will be to review again in one years time.
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Can't get copy drive to work from Seagate Acronis....
by Kaicanoe on July 6, 2011
Pros: Looks good
Cons: Seagate Disc Wizard does not work
Summary: Keep getting cannot write disc to sector....wasting lots of time because this Acronis bug keeps coming up. I see one another person has the same problem, trying copy the ...
Summary: Keep getting cannot write disc to sector....wasting lots of time because this Acronis bug keeps coming up. I see one another person has the same problem, trying copy the old drive to this new drive. Looks like everybodyh else gave up & just treated it like a new drive....arggghhh
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Great refresh for older laptop
by Avonava-is-God on May 9, 2011
Pros: Extending life of older laptop for general use
Cons: Don't expect miracles
Summary: Took our 5 yr old Dell Inspiron - 2gh 2G ram on XP. Got Seagate Momentus XT (500GB) onsale for $89 and W7 (about $100). Boot, logon and into an ...
Summary: Took our 5 yr old Dell Inspiron - 2gh 2G ram on XP. Got Seagate Momentus XT (500GB) onsale for $89 and W7 (about $100). Boot, logon and into an Office ap in under a minute! Pops out of hibernation in a couple of seconds. This upgrade will keep this puppy out of the recycler for several years all for a couple of hundred bucks - nice green upgrade! Runs like a rabbit but still weighs like a mule :(
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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This Product Rocks! (SD28)
by powercarfixit on February 5, 2012
Pros: The Drive is fast.
Great Value.
Is like an ssd drive with out the price of one.Cons: Sort of Buggy.
Need latest firmware and firmware is hard to update.Summary: The product is Great if there are any problems you are having with lagging, lossing data, and just slowness go to http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Momentus-XT-Momentus-Momentus/Momentus-XT-Solutions-This-might-work-for-you/td-p/99842...
Summary: The product is Great if there are any problems you are having with lagging, lossing data, and just slowness go to http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Momentus-XT-Momentus-Momentus/Momentus-XT-Solutions-This-might-work-for-you/td-p/99842
because my drive was having problem and i found this and it fixed all my problems.
This Hard Drive does everything I want but if your having problems It could be because of this reasons
Force update to SD28 (Highly recommended!) [MAC/PC]
Report it! (1 Minute work) [MAC/PC]
Reformat [MAC/PC]
Disable APM (Advanced Power Management) [MAC/PC]
Disable APM 2 (S.M.A.R.T 184 End to End Error) [PC]
Disable NCQ (through nForce - If you have it) [PC]
Force SATA I (Disable NCQ, Mac users read the next solution!) [MAC/PC]
Downgrade to EFI 1.6 (Force to SATA I for Macs) [MAC]
Install different Chipset drivers (Mainly Intel) [MAC?/PC]
Remove "Windows Security Essentials" [PC] -
Quite fast, quiet and power efficient. SD26 firmware
by danwat1234 on August 25, 2011
Pros: It is power efficient, quiet and performs very well
Cons: Not as fast as a full blown SSD and speed is not consistent. It depends on whether the data you want is on the 4GB NAND flash or not.
Summary: Here is the official Seagate Momentus XT SD26 firmware update. SD26 is the latest version of the drive's firmware as of the end of August, 2011.
Windows version (easiest):...Summary: Here is the official Seagate Momentus XT SD26 firmware update. SD26 is the latest version of the drive's firmware as of the end of August, 2011.
Windows version (easiest):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mhlkbf
Bootable iso version:
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Wastes just as much time as it saves
by ArcticShivers on April 14, 2011
Pros: Loads a few programs about 10% faster than normal, boots up faster than normal (with the caveat below.)
Cons: Everything else takes twice as long to load since the HDD spins at a medium-slow rate.
It will randomly stop accepting input as it shuffles data between the HDD and SSD. It does this for about 20 seconds, about two minutes after booting up, *every singleSummary: *Peak* performance might be measurably higher than a pure-HDD, but the combined overall performance is the same as a high-speed HDD, for a significantly higher price. I wouldn't recommend ...
Summary: *Peak* performance might be measurably higher than a pure-HDD, but the combined overall performance is the same as a high-speed HDD, for a significantly higher price. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who does more than one or two things on their computer... basically, anyone who'll need more than 4GB worth of OS and programs (not including data storage.)
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Works, I have not compared it to any alternatives
by alexbcnd on March 20, 2011
Pros: I am not qualified to give any other than saying, it works, i have it installed on my MBP for two months. I also have install in a Mac Mini and it boots in 10 seconds.
Cons: None I can find
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SD24 Firmware is the Key
by snailhead on March 12, 2011
Pros: Fast, very fast.
Cons: Upgrading to SD24 isn't for the faint of heart nor for those without a backup.
Summary: My platform is a Dell D630, A17 Firmware, with Windows 7 x64. It out-performs the newer E6400's my company is buying. It's not as fast as the 128G ...
Summary: My platform is a Dell D630, A17 Firmware, with Windows 7 x64. It out-performs the newer E6400's my company is buying. It's not as fast as the 128G SSD, but I'm not going to run out of space, either.
I've proposed a life extension plan to my IT group that consists of D630's, these drives and Windows 7 x64. I think they can do it for less than $250. -
Decent but would not buy again
by jjewing10 on March 11, 2011
Pros: Faster boot times.
Cons: Laptop frequently goes to sleep since hard drive installed.No boot device detected intermittently also.
Summary: Would not recommend and Seagate technical support blames my PC and BIOS, even though it worked fine with my previous 5400 RPM HDD. I did a clean install of WIN7 ...
Summary: Would not recommend and Seagate technical support blames my PC and BIOS, even though it worked fine with my previous 5400 RPM HDD. I did a clean install of WIN7 64bit Home Premium in case it was corrupted but still same issue.Upgraded firmware and worked better for a few days then same problem.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
- Part number: ST95005620AS
- Description: The Seagate Momentus XT drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacity and SSD-like performance. The Momentus XT drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making this drive easy to integrate and easy to use. Adaptive Memory technology enables the drive to tailor its performance to the user. Whether you are gaming, editing digital media or crunching numbers, the performance is optimized and ready for your next move. Adaptive Memory technology is a Seagate data management technique that constantly monitors and quickly recalls data usage and preferences. It places files and data that the user will likely access again and again into the solid state portion of the drive. When the user requires the data or application file, it already sits in an instantly accessible location, thereby customizing system performance for the user. Constant monitoring dynamically improves overall response time based on personal usage. You can perform at your best no matter how you use your laptop PC.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Device Type Hybrid hard drive - Internal hard drive
- Capacity 500 GB
- Flash Memory Capacity 4 GB
- Form Factor 2.5" x 1/8H
- Interface Serial ATA-300
- Buffer Size 32 MB
- Bytes per Sector 512 Hz
- Features QuietStep,
Ramp Load,
Adaptive Memory technology - Width 2.8 in
- Depth 3.9 in
- Height 0.4 in
- Weight 3.9 oz
Performance
- Drive Transfer Rate 300 MBps
- Seek Time 11 ms (average)
- Average Latency 4.17 ms
- Spindle Speed 7200 rpm
Reliability
- Non-Recoverable Errors 1 per 10^14
- Start / Stop Cycles 600,000
Expansion & Connectivity
- Interfaces 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Compatible Bays 1 x Internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
Power
- Power Device None
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Certifications Compatible with Windows 7
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support 3 years warranty
- Service & Support Details Limited warranty - 3 years
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature 32 °F
- Max Operating Temperature 140 °F
- Shock Tolerance 350 g @ 2ms (operating) / 1000 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
Product series
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Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Specs: 500 GB,
Internal hard drive,
Serial ATA-300,
2.5" x 1/8H,
32 MB,
11 ms,
7200 rpm -
Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Specs: 250 GB,
Internal hard drive,
Serial ATA-300,
2.5" x 1/8H,
32 MB,
7200 rpm -
Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Specs: 320 GB,
Internal hard drive,
Serial ATA-300,
2.5" x 1/8H,
32 MB,
7200 rpm
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