Last week we touched on some new and interesting news possibly coming from Seagate. And wouldn’t you know it, our guestimate was spot on (as was many other peoples’).

The new Seagate Momentus XT was put through it’s paces by Hothardware and found to be “in between a WD Scorpio Blue and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11″ in terms of overall speed. So no, this hybrid tech won’t be a worth contender to SSD”s and users looking for the ultimate in speed. For that, a blazing fast, wallet slaying SSD is still your best bet.

If it’s actual benchies you’re looking for, the average times for the Momentus XT Hyrbird are as follows: ~110MBps/~100MBps read/write. Not out of this world, but something to consider I guess when deciding between HDD or SSD, no?

For the rest, you’ll have to give Hothardware your eyes and attention a bit longer.

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