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These benchmarks are pretty useless. Sounds like a potentially good idea, but I'll be impressed when I see real benchmarks demonstrating worthwhile improvements

These benchmarks are pretty useless. Sounds like a potentially good idea, but I'll be impressed when I see real benchmarks demonstrating worthwhile improvements. He starts off by saying that boot times have gotten significantly worse. Reinstalling the OS (not something I want to do) gets startup time back to the same as with a standard HDD. So far so bad. Secondly, application tests are completely unscientific and show a lack of understanding of how the OS works. After you open an application the OS caches it so that it opens more quickly next time. The startup improvements he's seeing can be entirely attributed to this: Consider that on my MBP with a 5400rpm HDD Pages took ~7 seconds to start the first time and ~1.5 the second time (using the same technique as the videos). This is a better benchmark of the same drive, but I still think the conclusion is too favorable without more thorough real-world tests: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/seagate_momentus_xt_500gb/ http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/seagate_momentus_xt_... Edit: Spelling and slightly overzealous language.

slyn 16y ago
When it comes to reviewing SSD's I don't think there is another source that comes close to AnandTech. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi... TL;DR: The review is still favorable, just with more meat to back it up.
- johnthedebs 16y ago
  Yeah, this is a much better review - thanks for pointing it out! Don't know why I didn't think to check AnandTech. They're definitely among the best at this.
bentlegen 16y ago
Tom's Hardware also has a review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybrid-hard-drive-ssd,2638.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybr... "At this point, we realize that reaching a verdict is not so easy. The new memory management technology is complex and hard to benchmark, as optimizations take place in the background, because we don’t know the performance parameters of the flash memory."

slyn 16y ago

When it comes to reviewing SSD's I don't think there is another source that comes close to AnandTech. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi... TL;DR: The review is still favorable, just with more meat to back it up.

johnthedebs 16y ago
Yeah, this is a much better review - thanks for pointing it out! Don't know why I didn't think to check AnandTech. They're definitely among the best at this.

bentlegen 16y ago

Tom's Hardware also has a review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybrid-hard-drive-ssd,2638.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybr... "At this point, we realize that reaching a verdict is not so easy. The new memory management technology is complex and hard to benchmark, as optimizations take place in the background, because we don’t know the performance parameters of the flash memory."