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Originally Posted by Mikushi
No doubt, but still, it's still far behind a good Western Digital like a Velociraptor  |
Not as far as you think...
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The Seagate Momentus XT is an excellent notebook hard drive and under the right circumstances surpasses drives well out of its class. The 4GB of cache helps to significantly improve the access of common read/write patterns that a user might see in their daily routine. At its worst it still offers a significant boost in performance over its older 7200.4 brother, but at its best it outperforms even the 10,000RPM Western Digital Velociraptor desktop hard drive.
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http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_review
Commonly used apps/files are cached to the SSD memory so related tasks are extremely fast.