500GB Seagate Momentus XT 2.5" SATA II NCQ Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive SSD (ST95005620AS) $50 + Free Shipping (expired)

Drive is 7200 rpm. Just to be clear, this is a hybrid and still has spinning platters; not a true SSD.

wow. best deal yet. wish it was the 750gb XT. but this is worth getting at this price.

i JUST BAUGHT THIS USED FOR $50, SAME PRICE NEW, IN FOR TWO THX!
damn you caps lock, damn you.....

Read the reviews/feedback.

At best, it will be slightly faster than a normal HDD in terms of launching your applications and you will see a faster boot but nothing compared to a true SSD.

Furthermore, there has been stability issues with this drive as far as random restarts and blue screens of death. It does seem the BSODs may go away after it learns your configuration, but reviews are mixed.

If you needed more hard drive space, and don't mind a few hiccups for a week or two, then this is a good buy for only $50. If you are are happy with the space you have now and are mostly looking for speed, I suggest waiting.

Quote from cantonesejason : wow. best deal yet. wish it was the 750gb XT. i just got the same 500gb XT from amazon two wks ago for 69.99 + tax. this is awesome. get this!

I agree this is a great price! I bought this same drive from Newegg a few months ago for $70 and it works great.

How is this comparable to a standard 2.5 vs an SSD as far as performance.

I threw one of these in an old turion 2 laptop, thing boots in 30 seconds even with a slow processor LOL

FYI. This is the 2nd gen with 4gb ssd. The 3rd gen has 8gb. Not saying this is not a good deal. Just thought you should know.

Good deal for this drive,personally I'd just go with a SSD (good deals lately I "name brand" drives) and use the drive it's replacing as the bulk storage and dump the optical drive (assuming this is for a laptop). But if price/optical drive is the issue the go for it, if speed is your goal than don't settle for this. Newegg no tax, shoprunner, good price thanks for sharing OP.

My hard drive is about to die, and I'm short on cash. Looks like a good deal.

Quote from dmvee : How is this comparable to a standard 2.5 vs an SSD as far as performance.

Data Transfer graph: http://media.bestofmicro.com/N/O/...iagram.png
110 MB/s read/write via h2benchw vs SSD typical 200-300 MB/s read and 200 MB/s write

"The throughput diagram is impressive for a 2.5” drive, but not revolutionary. Performance basically evolves."

Sources: http://media.bestofmicro.com/N/O/...iagram.png & http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...83-11.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...38-13.html

"However, looking at the product name allows us to take the position and standpoint that is most appropriate when looking at this product: the Momentus XT is a hard drive! It just happens to utilize flash memory in an effort to improve performance. Once we treat it like a hard drive, then we shed the performance expectations to which it can't live up."


"All performance numbers we’ve seen are at least good, as the Momentus XT outperforms all 7,200 RPM 500GB competitors in the majority of our benchmarks. It is the fastest 2.5” drive when it comes to throughput and I/Os, it has good application performance and it delivers great scores on SYSmark 2007 as well, which is based on real applications...We also have to mention that power consumption of this drive is slightly higher than other drives on average, which results in shorter battery runtime on notebooks."

More reviews here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/foru...0AS-Review

i have used this drive few times before. its works little better than 7200rpm drives . boot up time is the not bad

How would this drive fare in a Playstation 3?