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welcome to my unboxing of the momentous xt now this is not your father's or your

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grandfather's or your slightly older brother's momentous xt

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this is the new

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second generation momentous xt so this is a 750 gig drive if you guys remember

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the original momentous xt only went up to 500 gigs it also has instead of four

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gigs of slc flash built in it has eight gigs of slc flash which is

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in terms of write speeds is almost double the speed of the original

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momentous xt which makes a huge difference in write operations and in

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terms of read operations it is about 70

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faster and really most of what you're going to be

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doing with a momentous xt from the flash side of things is going to be reads so

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it will be in short significantly faster than the original momentous xt it's

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still a 7200 RPM drive in spite of the two and a half inch slim notebook form

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factor so this is all about use in notebooks what other improvements have

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they made well they have okay fast technology which i think is actually

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kind of clever flash assisted storage technology they have upgraded the uh

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well i can't really call it software it's more of a firmware because it's

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part of the the drive's inner workings but they have upgraded their fast

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technology their flash assisted storage to be more efficient including a really

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cool thing called fast factor boot which the very first time you use the

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momentous xt second generation product to boot up your notebook it will cache

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all of your boot files into the 8 gig SSD then it will leave them there

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forever well not not forever if you you know you have a different os it'll

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eventually overwrite them but the point is that if you have it booted up for a

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long time you use a bunch of different programs even over and over and over again it will not flush those boob files

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out of the SSD what that gives you is compared to the original momentous xt

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significantly better performance when booting or when resuming from sleep or

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doing anything that involves bringing your os from a non-operational state to

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an operational state in practice it performs similarly to an SSD but not

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quite there in terms of its boot performance because it's pretty much

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running it entirely off the SSD but not a hundred percent so this wouldn't be an

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unboxing unless i went through the mounting options so we've got our hard

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drive screw mounts here and here

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and finally here this is a SATA three six gigabit per second drive so they

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have also upgraded the interface from SATA to three gigabit per second

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although i would speculate that on a drive like this it's not going to make

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that much of a difference in fact most drives on the market don't benefit from

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SATA 3 but it's there in case you want SATA power is also here

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and i want you guys to stay tuned to my nci xcom channel because i'm going to be

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doing more of a performance evaluation of this drive versus a sata3 SSD versus

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a regular desktop 7200 RPM drive and also going through all of the

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technologies that are involved in it in more detail so thank you for checking

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