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  1. 11th May 2012, 11:20 AM #1971
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    Ehh, I guess I'll pass on the hybrid drive. While faster load times and boot times would be nice, I don't think they're worth $40 to me. And I wouldn't get the 8GB hybrid drive because it costs more money than I'm willing to spend on the upgrade. Thanks for the answers
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    I bought a used 500XT for my son's laptop and he churns away with it and so far so good. Messed around recently with his laptop and it is much faster than my standard HD unit even though mine is an I7 while his is a I5 processor laptop.
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    I saw some tests stating that a ssd could improve a little the minimum frame rate. But marginally. Momentus XT won't do that i think. It's more about incresing boot times and frequently used softwares access.

    I have one. I love it. I don't regret my 60gb ssd at all.
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    Quote Originally Posted by jclausius View Post
    Sorry to hear that. Only thing I can say, is I'm at 23 months and still running strong on my RAID-1 volume of XTs.
    Well, hopefully third one is a charm. Just got notification it is shipping back to me.

    BTW, is it recco'd to install Windows on this drive in ACHI mode (like SSD's) or IDE?
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    If your laptop's BIOS has AHCI, then use it. It is a faster interface for ALL SATA devices, not just SSDs.

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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    Hello,

    I have a Seagate Momentus XT 500Gb since ~1.5y on my Thinkpad T61.
    Since a few months, I get lots of "micro freezes"... kinda like lots of people with a Momentus XT.

    I did several HD Tune benchmarks and the results are really weird.
    It caps at ~85mo/s and there are a lot of down spikes on the graph: the HDD goes down at around 5mo/s for a second a so, several times during the benchmark.

    The particular thing is when I connect my HDD on another computer and do the benchmark, it is totally normal: it caps at ~105mo/s for an average read of 80mo/s, and there are no spike at all. All like on day one on my laptop.
    Also, no matter if it is on my laptop or my other computer, the Seagate diagnostic tools says the drive has no error. HD Tune however shows that there is one too many End-to-End error...

    I did a full erase on the disk, updated the disk firmware, updated and set back to defaults the laptop BIOS... and no luck.

    What do you people think?

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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    I just wanted to chime in and say that I have this drive and I recently upgraded the firmware to SD28 and wow things sure do seem faster!
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  8. 2nd July 2012, 01:51 AM #1978
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    Is there a new firmware update for the XT drives?
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    SD28 was the last XT Momentus [FW].
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    Default Re: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD w/ built-in 4GB SSD

    Hello, I recently bought this Seagate.
    My temperatures are around 45-50 celcius. Is this normal? Is it too much, in the manual it says it operates to 60 degree but 50 seems very hot.
    My other HDD is only 35-40 degree maximum.

    Thank you.
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