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Newegg has the Seagate ST95005620AS Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive for $100 - $5 off with coupon code EMCKGJK37 [Exp 3/16] + $1 shipping = $96 shipped. Features SSD-like performance with hard drive capacity and claims 80 percent faster performance than traditional 7200RPM drives in benchmark scores.
$96
Just the name SEAGATE gives me chills
Heard that. Had a LOT of problems with various drives from them over the last two years. Will not be buying from them again for a very long time, if ever.
Seagate has become the new Maxtor. Not sure how they're going to redeem their image with me.
Has anyone tried this drive? Is it really that fast?
I bought this recently. Works OK. Definitely faster than my old disk. Faster bootup and shutoff, but not more than 20% faster. Other well used apps also faster. I had some trepidation hearing that disk makes noise, grinds, needs firmware updates, etc. Not true with mine. A lot of complaints seem to be with people who have Macs, I have a toshiba core i7 and it seems to work well.
Am glad I bought it but the speed increases to me seem somewhat marginal, nice but not an order of magnitude.
SLK
SeeGates used to b a good name.
Bill Gates is better.
This is a good drive! It's no ssd! During regular use it's about the same or barely faster than a 7200. But when you are doing a repetitive task is where this drive shines. If I reboot my computer 3X in row the boot times will go from 3:02 down to 0:98. I have had my drive for over a year and half using it every day for about 6 hours with no problems.
Still, it's only $4 cheaper than it's been forever.
Anyone notice how Newegg is moving away from free shipping to charging $1 on a lot of stuff now?
#7 rolled a 7 on his drive.
what does "roll a 7" mean?