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sotong168
post May 29 2010, 11:32 PM

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QUOTE(everling @ May 29 2010, 11:24 PM)
That's simply not going to happen in the next few years. For the foreseeable future, SSDs will simply be the better performers and HDDs will be better at storage. But Seagate's work at producing a hybrid will be something to watch with interest, especially when the hybrid has 16 or 32 GB of flash cache.
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agreed on that or else WD won't invest 3.82bil ringgit in MY plants + acquiring SG hoya's buliding nod.gif
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post May 29 2010, 11:49 PM

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QUOTE(mitodna @ May 29 2010, 11:42 PM)
WD really killing Seagate consumers market, the only thing left Seagate was to embrace the SSD market, Seagate had a whole lot of portfolio of patents, that is what left, beside the existing Enterprise class drive.

No doubt Seagate FreeAgent drives still sell well here though, not much of its internal drive.

Spotted CZone pricelist:
Samsung 1.5TB - 285MYR
Samsung 2TB -385MYR
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wd is aggressive, they had made the right move to branded product & media player & ssd, and next is hoya glass... whistling.gif
damn nice the price for 2GB thumbup.gif , bought few at RM340 month ago shakehead.gif
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post May 30 2010, 03:13 AM

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QUOTE(shajack @ May 30 2010, 12:35 AM)
i thought d hybrid is a half-baked idea(custom pc issue 061 but its microsoft so anything can happen)
remember reading in maxpc tht seagate would never step into ssd coz of price rational...
guess they paid the wrong fortune teller hmm.gif
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source: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hdd
Momentus® XT Solid State Hybrid Drives

Momentus xt launch event Powerful, intelligent, affordable–Solid state hybrid drives deliver SSD-like performance without sacrificing storage capacity and affordability.

* Adaptive Memory™ technology
* 80% faster than traditional 7200–RPM drives
* Boots within seconds of a laptop with SSD
* Works in any standard laptop with any OS
* Seagate 5-year Limited Warranty


source: http://www.htlounge.net/art/12328/seagate-...hd-and-ssd.html

Seagate unveils Momentus XT hybrid HD and SSD
29th May, 2010 by Adina

Seagate has revealed the Momentus XT. The drive is meant to be the best for notebooks. It includes a traditional 2.5-inch at 7,200RPM hard drive with a 4GB solid-state drive, SLC-based, and 32MB of memory, DDR3 type, as a cache. Special firmware present on the drive uses the solid-state drive to optimize performance. It would boost as fast as a genuine SSD. It also would load about 80 percent faster than would a regular 7,200RPM drive.

The SATA II drive is OS-independent and is addressed to performance users that include high-end notebooks and compact desktops as well as other devices that are able to use the extra bandwidth, such as, for example, USB 3.0 or eSATA. There are three versions of the Momentus XT available, the 250GB, 320GB and 500GB models. Starting prices are much lower than for traditional SSDs, about $113
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post Jun 2 2010, 09:54 PM

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QUOTE(ycs @ Jun 2 2010, 09:42 PM)
its good that hdd prices are falling cos looks like I'm buying one every month...brows.gif
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wah, so many, how do u achieve those hdds? using docking station?
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post Jun 12 2010, 08:45 AM

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2TB Hard Drives Crack the $100 Barrier

2TB drives are down as low as $100 street, a year and a half after first coming to market, at $250 and up. That's $100 on promotional sales, for moderate-performance drives. Over the weekend, NewEgg.com offered the Seagate LP ST32000542AS, a 2TB 5900-rpm internal SATA drive, for $99.99 to its mailing list customers. This drive falls into the energy-consious, moderate-performance part of the spectrum. Other resellers with these Seagates and with competing drives are hovering in the $105-$130 price range. Highest-performance 7200-rpm drives with 6Gb/s transfer rates are in the $200-$300 range.

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