New ASUS Gaming Laptop to Deliver Unprecedented Speeds Powered by Momentus XT Drive
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – May 24, 2010 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced channel and OEM shipments of the Momentus ® XT drive, the world’s fastest 2.5-inch laptop PC hard drive, combining SSD-like performance with the massive capacity and much lower cost of HDDs. The Momentus XT drive also features Adaptive Memory™ – a groundbreaking new technology from Seagate that learns and optimizes the drive’s performance to each user by moving frequently used information into the flash memory for faster access. The Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive boots up to 100 percent faster than traditional 5400RPM drives, the mainstream spin speed for laptop PCs, and sets new benchmarks for real-world system performance for laptops and gaming systems.
Today’s high-performance SSDs for mobile computing cost as much as 10 times more than hard disk drives of the same capacity, with the price of a 250GB SSD outstripping even the cost of many laptop PCs. As a result, most consumers and system builders are unwilling or unable to pay the high price for the greater speed and quiet operations of SSDs. Additionally, SSDs offer fewer capacity options than hard disk drives.
You state that this drive is up to 100 % faster than a regulkar drive. This cannot possibly be true. 100 % faster means that it will do everything in 0 seconds…
Also the 740GB drive is nit a drive with the highest capacity, but the 2.5″ drive with the highest capacity.
Sincerely,
Mads Oelholm
Don’t forget the ASUS / Seagate webcast
Topic: Seagate WebCast
Date and Time:
May 26, 2010 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
see you there
[...] price-insensitive enterprise storage market. The company’s 2.5″ Momentus XT drives, introduced last Monday, act as a HDD-to-SSD bridge of another sort. They’re actually not the first hybrid HDDs that [...]
100% faster means performs twice the work in the same time as compared to something else, or performs the same work in half the time.
Independent testers saw OS load times 80% faster on average after 3 OS cycles.
100% faster would mean twice as fast. Which in turn would mean half the boot time.