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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: hal
Date: May 25, 2012 02:42PM
More dealmac deals:

INSANELY low price for the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB @ newegg

[www.newegg.com] (no affiliation link)

Frys has the even better 750GB version for $119 B&M only - better hurry for that one...

Tigerdirect has it for $134 + $2 AFTER $20 rebate
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: May 25, 2012 02:43PM
just paid $170 a few months ago for the 750.
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: Will Collier
Date: May 25, 2012 03:37PM
Frickin' A... I paid $25 for a 500GB drive a year ago. New. Newegg, actually...
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: decay
Date: May 25, 2012 03:53PM
not THAT 500GB, you didn't...




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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: Will Collier
Date: May 25, 2012 03:54PM
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decay
not THAT 500GB, you didn't...

Okay, yeah, second look, obviously not a generic 500GB. But still...
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: May 25, 2012 04:15PM
And probably a 3.5" desktop drive, not a 2.5" laptop drive…
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: rz
Date: May 25, 2012 04:27PM
I've heard those hybrid drives don't really save much time over other drives. Can anyone confirm/deny?
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: hal
Date: May 25, 2012 05:03PM
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Will Collier
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decay
not THAT 500GB, you didn't...

Okay, yeah, second look, obviously not a generic 500GB. But still...

THIS drive has never been sold for less than this - EVER - so it's a very worthy deal

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rz
I've heard those hybrid drives don't really save much time over other drives. Can anyone confirm/deny?

That is utter BS and good luck finding even a 5400RPM drive NEW for $80 these days... go to newegg, look up laptop drives, select 500GB and sort by price. The CHEAPEST of all is $75.
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: rz
Date: May 25, 2012 06:47PM
Oh, I'm not interested... I've got plenty of drives. But I thought I had read an article where someone said that the speed gain for the hybrid drives were negligible.
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: hal
Date: May 25, 2012 07:28PM
sorry if I sounded harsh - I just wanted a strong counter to your statement for those that might be influenced by it.
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: sekker
Date: May 25, 2012 08:19PM
That's a good price on the 500GB drive, but the 750GB model is a much better drive IMHO.
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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: decay
Date: May 25, 2012 09:21PM
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sekker
That's a good price on the 500GB drive, but the 750GB model is a much better drive IMHO.

^
this.


and from a little bit of testing with the 500 GB model in a white 24in iMac, it DID speed up booting, app launching, and read/write test using AJA were 100 MB/sec for both.

that's the white Intel iMac, with only the 1.5 MB SATA connection, not the 3 or 6 of newer Macs.

it took a few reboots and launching of apps - the drive learns what to cache in NAND memory.




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Re: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB - $80 free ship at Newegg / 750GB $119 @ Fry's B&M
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: May 26, 2012 05:58PM
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hal
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rz
I've heard those hybrid drives don't really save much time over other drives. Can anyone confirm/deny?

That is utter BS and good luck finding even a 5400RPM drive NEW for $80 these days... go to newegg, look up laptop drives, select 500GB and sort by price. The CHEAPEST of all is $75.

Not BS at all. Look at the benchmarks. It'll speed up booting, but compared to fast traditional drives, it's not much faster - especially compared to a SSD. 100MB/s? I get that with my 2-year-old traditional 2.5" drive.

But if you're going from one of the stock Apple drives, especially in an older MB/MBP, you'll still see a huge performance boost.



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