Seagate Momentus XT Review

Up until this year, PC buyers had very little choice for what kind of primary storage they got with their laptop, nettop, netbook, or desktop. If you bought a netbook or ultraportable, you likely had a solid-state drive (SSD) as...

Hard drive manufacturers are slashing warranties on their products, dropping some lines from five years to just one year. Last week, Western Digital announced that it would be dropping the warranty period on its Caviar Blue,...

All the main Ultrabook vendors on the market are expected to lower the price of their products to below the psychological $1000 mark by the end of the year, with even deeper cuts expected thanks to a marketing subsidy by Intel...

Seagate has unveiled its third generation Momentus XT drive, which comes with 8GB SLC NAND Flash plus a 750GB traditional magnetic spinning hard disk drive. Other key features include a 6Gbps SATA interface with NCQ, a 2.5-inch...

Seagate has upgraded its Momentus XT hybrid drive technology - a marriage of traditional magnetic storage with solid-state NAND flash - and makes a bold claim: performance that can match, or even beat, a traditional...

Seagate has announced that it will cease production of 5,400RPM Barracuda drives, making all hard drives in the series spin at 7,200RPM as standard. The company's announcement, via ARN, comes as it has developed improved...

Steve Pereira, EMEA Vice President for Hitachi GST, has confirmed to ITProPortal.com that the Japanese storage company will not launch any products based on solid state technology (including hybrid drives) in the near...

The newly introduced Intel 310 SSD family may announce the return of Robson, Intel's so-called Turbo Memory, which was introduced back in October 2005 but never really caught up. Like Robson, the Intel 310 SSD connects directly...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are the perfect storage solution for compact and ultra-portable devices. They contain no moving parts - which means they don’t need the same cooling, and they don’t consume as much power as...

At Apple's 'Back to the Mac' event last Wednesday, the company's CEO Steve Jobs enthused that the new MacBook Air he'd unveiled during his keynote was the "future of the notebook." Aside from its razor-thin form factor, the new...

The big cheeses at Microsoft and EA reckon it's going to take a long time for stereoscopic 3D gaming to take off, but that hasn't stopped every tech firm and its mutt from trying to clamber on to the wagon. The latest company to...

We met with Nick Kyriacou, Director, EMEA at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to get some updates from him on the latest storage announcements from the consumer storage arm of Japanese conglomerate giant, Hitachi. Apart from...

As expected, storage specialist Seagate has released its Momentus XT Hybrid hard disk drive, one that brings together the best of solid state and traditional magnetic storage technology. The drive is currently available in...

Hard drive maker Seagate has stepped in to fight off the onslaught of SSDs, by combining a high-speed hard drive with an SSD, which it says will offer performance close to an SSD without the prohibitive cost. The 2.5in Momentus...

Storage manufacturer Seagate is set to announce the launch of a "game-changing" device that can more than double a computer's performance on the 26th of May during a webcast launch. Engadget says that the storage device - which...