New 750GB Momentus XT drive with 8GB SLC Flash

[Covenant]

Thought this would be interesting to some of you:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate...t_750gb_review

Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Specs:
Interface: SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ
2.5" 9mm body
8GB SLC Flash
Capacity: 750GB (698.63GB Formatted)
Cache: 32MB
Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM

I have one of the first generation 500GB XT (with 4GB Flash) running in my GFs 2008 MBP and it was a HUGE increase in performance when I put it in - for both OSX and Win7. Some of that performance increase could probably be explained from the increase from 5400rpm to 7200rpm, but it really was light night and day. Boot times are almost half my 2011 MBP, which I haven't switched to SSD because I needed the capacity.

Will be interesting to see how stable the drives turn out to be. It took about a year and 5 firmware updates before the last generation became acceptable. Mine has been perfect from day one, but mine already came with quite a late firmware and I read a lot of stories about instability with the early firmware.

Thoughts anyone?

[cppmonkey]

I two have a Momentus XT 500GB. I have to admit I never really saw much benefit over my Asus G73-JH's stock Momentus 500GB until you run them side by side.
Have one of the new Momentus 750GB in the laptop as well, so I can tell you that is out performs the Momentus XT 500GB (Uncached reading obviously).

As its going to be there second drive I can't see there being the same teething issues as the first one and I'm sure the doubling of the SSD cache will benefit it greatly. The larger cache will enable more applications to benefit from the extra speed the hybrid model offers.

For the £140 you'll fork out for this drive you my only get 1/8th of the SSD space as a pure SSD drive offers. Yet it still offers great capacity, especially for a laptop that doesn't offer a second drive bay then its a great compromise

You've actually got me considering 2 of these for my desktop over 2 SSD drives.
One for Windows and most applications and the other for commonly used games. With the drive managing the caching they are an easy alternative to SSD/HDD combinations, that require considerable thought and time into maintenance of the drive space