Testurteil: "Excellent"
Test: Einzeltest: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid HDD
Zitat: Positive: + Fast operating system start-up and shutdown times.
+ Fast application loading.
+ Large capacity for a 2.5 inch drive.
+ Low cost per Gigabyte compared to an SSD.
+ Whisper quiet operation
Negative: - Not as robust as an SSD.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below:The main positive points: The Momentus XT hybrid drive offers very good value, with great performance, and storage capacity. It is really quite remarkable how fast this little drive is at booting an operating system, and launching applications. Give this drive a little time to learn your working habits and it will reward you with very snappy performance. The Momentus XT is also a very quiet drive in operation. There is a faint hum of the drive spinning and next to no noise at all as the read/write heads seek and access data. As a high performance laptop drive, the Momentus XT excels, offering large capacity, and very good performance with very low cost per GB of storage.The main negative points: I’m nit picking really. The Momentus XT still has spinning platters, so you have to take care of the drive, especially while it’s running. Drop a running SSD from the desk to the floor and it will continue to work as normal, and suffer no long term damage from the fall unless you are really unlucky. On the other hand, drop the Momentus XT while its running and the same cannot be said. The chances are the drive will be damaged from the fall. I guess we could also say that the Momentus XT doesn’t run silently like an SSD, but as I said it is still a very quiet running drive, and this is just nit picking.
