Hybrid SSD hard drive from Seagate debuts allegedly in Asus Notebook
The Momentus XT is already listed in some U.S. stores dell inspiron 1501 battery. Thus it combines 4GB SLC flash, 32 MB of volatile cache and a 500-GB hard disk with 7200 revolutions per minute. The price is $ 133.45.
Developed by Seagate hybrid memory model of a conventional hard disk drive and a solid-state drive is to be presented shortly. Engadget speculates that it is in the play-Notebook Asus ROG G73Jh are used. Asus has the 26th to the presentation May sent an invitation in which Seagate lenovo thinkpad t500 battery acting as co-organizer.
Furthermore, such a device under the name Momentus XT already spotted on some U.S. online shops. The provider Provantage.com it lists as a combination of 4 GB SLC Flash, 32 MByte volatile cache and a 500 GB hard drive with 7200 rpm 2.5-inch format. The price: $ 133.45. Fudzilla reports of additional minor variants with 250 and 320 GB of disk space.
Seagate announced the project two years ago, but only now is the time seems ripe to consider. The Momentus XT is to speed up system performance by up to 150 percent. Compared with a Standard-7200-U./min-Platte according to the manufacturer it is 80 percent faster compared canon eos 40d battery grip to a 10.000-U./min-Platte still around 20 percent. A pure-Seagate SSD is found to be slightly faster, costs of comparable capacity, but a fortune.
Seagate has long been seen as skeptical about the future of SSDs. CEO Bill Watkins said in 2008: "SSD is great potential for the miniaturization of storage, production at attractive prices that is not yet economically feasible." The market was therefore done in 2009.
Seagate seems to be on the invitation to co-Asus press conference. Perhaps the presented notebook hybrid HDD and SSD storage medium is included (image: via News.com).
