welcome to my unboxing of the momentous xt now this is not your father's or your
grandfather's or your slightly older brother's momentous xt
this is the new
second generation momentous xt so this is a 750 gig drive if you guys remember
the original momentous xt only went up to 500 gigs it also has instead of four
gigs of slc flash built in it has eight gigs of slc flash which is
in terms of write speeds is almost double the speed of the original
momentous xt which makes a huge difference in write operations and in
terms of read operations it is about 70
faster and really most of what you're going to be
doing with a momentous xt from the flash side of things is going to be reads so
it will be in short significantly faster than the original momentous xt it's
still a 7200 RPM drive in spite of the two and a half inch slim notebook form
factor so this is all about use in notebooks what other improvements have
they made well they have okay fast technology which i think is actually
kind of clever flash assisted storage technology they have upgraded the uh
well i can't really call it software it's more of a firmware because it's
part of the the drive's inner workings but they have upgraded their fast
technology their flash assisted storage to be more efficient including a really
cool thing called fast factor boot which the very first time you use the
momentous xt second generation product to boot up your notebook it will cache
all of your boot files into the 8 gig SSD then it will leave them there
forever well not not forever if you you know you have a different os it'll
eventually overwrite them but the point is that if you have it booted up for a
long time you use a bunch of different programs even over and over and over again it will not flush those boob files
out of the SSD what that gives you is compared to the original momentous xt
significantly better performance when booting or when resuming from sleep or
doing anything that involves bringing your os from a non-operational state to
an operational state in practice it performs similarly to an SSD but not
quite there in terms of its boot performance because it's pretty much
running it entirely off the SSD but not a hundred percent so this wouldn't be an
unboxing unless i went through the mounting options so we've got our hard
drive screw mounts here and here
and finally here this is a SATA three six gigabit per second drive so they
have also upgraded the interface from SATA to three gigabit per second
although i would speculate that on a drive like this it's not going to make
that much of a difference in fact most drives on the market don't benefit from
SATA 3 but it's there in case you want SATA power is also here
and i want you guys to stay tuned to my nci xcom channel because i'm going to be
doing more of a performance evaluation of this drive versus a sata3 SSD versus
a regular desktop 7200 RPM drive and also going through all of the
technologies that are involved in it in more detail so thank you for checking
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