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I'm surprised that the benchmarks for the Momentus XT are so good, especially since it only has 4 GB (8 for the newer model) of SSD. It would seem that in theor
by sehugg 14y ago
I'm surprised that the benchmarks for the Momentus XT are so good, especially since it only has 4 GB (8 for the newer model) of SSD. It would seem that in theory it would be better to just add 4 or 8 GB of DRAM to your main system, but apparently the drive only caches non-sequential data that isn't likely to be read quickly from the platters. I'm thinking of trying one on my aging MacBook Pro.
Anyway the Apple approach should be better because of the bigger SSD and more intelligent caching available at the OS level.
- reeses 14y agoThe first revision of the XT (.5TB) was a dog and barely worth the effort. The new version is significantly improved.
- yeureka 14y agoI installed the 750GB/8GB Momentus XT on my late 2008 MBP and it has been a breath of fresh air. Previously I had a 500GB WD Scorpio Black. That was fast but it vibrated a lot and I think battery life was worse than with the Momentus. I mainly use the machine for XCode and Visual Studio and now I am CPU bound.