Seagate USB 2.0 5GB Pocket Hard Drive

The Seagate Momentus XT is a rather unusual 2.5in SATA laptop hard disk. As well as having a 7,200rpm spindle speed and a SATA II connection, it also has 4GB of SLC flash memory. Seagate claims that this boosts performance to near-SSD levels but at a...

The Momentus XT works surprisingly well, but its performance benefits will only apply in certain circumstances and it's expensive too.

Seagate's magniloquently monikered Momentous XT has finally arrived in the TechRadar lab, resurrecting a concept we'd long dismissed as vapourware. It's the first hybrid drive we've seen for years: a statement which will make younger readers ask,...

Value for money ; Almost deskto drive erformance

No write acceleration ; Power use same as traditional drive

The design of Seagate's desktop USB2 hard disks hasn't changed much in the past few years, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The grey and white, slender, tapered appearance of the 1.5GB Freeagent Desk makes it an attractive addition to almost any...

Good-looking, relatively speedy and with decent backup software, this is a good-value 1.5TB disk.

The Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive adds flash storage to increase speed significantly over a standard hard drive; but it can't quite match an SSD.

For now, the Seagate Momentus XT is a lone duckling in a sea of options. But now that the drive has proven itself, it will be interesting to see if other drive makers decide to go the route of hybrid technology. If sheer performance is what you want,...

The hybrid Momentus XT is an excellent replacement for traditional notebook hard drives, offering large capacities and SSD-like performance at a fraction of the cost.

Excellent performance at a significantly lower price than solid-state drives (SSDs) ; Larger capacity than SSDs ; Generous five-year warranty

More expensive than traditional hard drives ; Capacity currently tops out at 500GB ; Doesn't support the new 6Gbps SATA 3.0 standard

In the throughput test, where we copy a large amount of data from one place to another from within the test computer's main hard drive, the Momentus XT did very well, registering 39.91MB/s, even faster than the 30.25MB/s of the Intel X-25M SSD.

This FireWire-equipped version of Seagate's FreeAgent Desk external hard disk is aimed at Mac users, so it comes formatted with the HFS+ file system.

It's another external hard disk from Seagate, this time with an impressive 100GB capacity.

The 100GB USB 2.0 portable hard drive from Seagate definitely isn't as cost effective as a 3.5in external unit, but it is smaller, lighter and still large enough to store masses of data.

The Seagate FreeAgent Desk is an external hard drive that is not only powerful, but that also safeguards all the users' data and files. Manufactured by the Seagate Company, this drive has some fantastic features that most people will fall in love with....

The drive is available in a stylish metallic colour, and in 500 GB, 640 GB, 1 TB, as well as 2 TB. With these huge abilities, you can perform a lot of work using this drive.

Excellent performance for a 2.5'' drive ; Excellent performance overall when repeatedly using the same small files

4 GB isn't much for the SSD part ; Performance improvement limited to two or three pieces of software

It can't match the best pure SSD drives, but the Momentus XT is a great alternative to traditional hard drives and is the new leader in our table of 2.5'' drives.

Bridges the gap between SSD and traditional hard drives

Very fast performance, Adaptive Memory technology

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Excellent service - fast, rapid and efficient service. The Hard Disk is exactly as described and extremely easy to set up,configure and use.

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