Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive

It has been a while since we knocked out a review of our own but when Seagate ask if we would like to try out a new “game changing” device we were not about to say no thanks.  We’re going to take a look at the Momentus XT, a newly designed hybrid hard drive.  Many of us will remember when Seagate tried to give this a try a few years ago with little success. Luckily they took a lot away from the previous hybrid drive and didn’t give up on the idea.  Jump ahead to today and Seagate has released their second hybrid hard drive, the Momentus XT.








The Momentus XT is trying to bridge the gap between the blazing speed of a Solid State Drive (SSD) and a typical mechanical platter Hard Disc Drive (HDD).  It does this buy having a 7200rpm platter,  4GB of onboard solid state flash, and Seagate’s Adaptive Memory technology.  WTF is Adaptive Memory technology you ask? According to the guys at Seagate it is, “a groundbreaking Seagate technology that moves frequently used information into flash memory for faster access.”  The Seagate Adaptive Memory algorithm works by identifying patterns in how often certain digital data is used. It then moves the most frequently retrieved information to flash memory for faster access than from the spinning disks – effectively tailoring hard drive performance to the user and applications.   Well 4GB isn’t a very big hard drive you say, and you would be correct.  The Momentus XT currently comes in capacities of up to 500GB (250GB and 320GB are the other options).  As you may have also already figured out because of the name, the Momentus XT is a 2.5″ drive.  The final gap between SSDs and HDDs that the Momentus XT fills is price, the 500GB unit should hit the street with a MRSP of $156 (250GB – $113, 320GB – $132). A 500GB SSD would nearly require a new mortgage to be drawn on the house.


Key Features and Benefits
• Boots 40 percent faster than traditional 7200-RPM drives (for overall system performance, that’s
within 1% of an SSD*)
• Cuts costs by 75 percent compared to SSDs by combining solid state and hard drive technologies
• Delivers the perfect balance of speed and capacity
• Uses Adaptive Memory technology to optimize performance in real time by storing frequently used
files and data on the solid state drive component
• Ensures compatibility with any operating system or application with a standard 9.5mm notebook
drive form factor and the characteristics of a traditional 7200RPM drive
• Offers all the benefits of SSD performance with the high capacity, storage, battery life, power
consumption and heat generation of a traditional hard drive
*Per Seagate benchmark data, using SysMark07 combined with 4GB of RAM on the system side


- 500GB, 320GB, 250GB hard drive capacities – Sweet spot capacity points that performance enthusiasts are looking for
Ensures that you will have the capacity you need for any type of application or digital hobby—ample digital play room
- 4GB solid state flash Speeds bootup and application response time
- 7200RPM spin speed Performance that won’t increase the noise, heat or power consumption of your hard drive—speed without the excess baggage.
- Seagate Adaptive Memory Technology – Customizes system performance to the user. Usage patterns are constantly monitored and updated for dynamically improved response times.
- 32 MB cache


On to the performance of the drive.  Our test drive arrived on Friday, unfortunately this is also a holiday weekend here in Canada (where I live) and we had a ton of stuff scheduled, so I was a bit limited to what I was able to do testing wise.  All tests were done in my slightly aging desktop PC after a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium x64, plus several apps that I typically use regularly (WoW, Firefox, utorrent, Ventrilo, Dropbox, KeePass, DisplayFusion). For comparison to another HDD I used a Barracuda 7200.10 750GB drive and is really only included for reference since it is an older drive and certainly not the speediest of drives currently available.  Since it generally takes running a program three times for the algorithm to put the necessary data into the flash each test was run three time and then the average of the following three runs was taken. For example the first time I ran PCMark Vantage the HDD Suite scored 5278 before jumping up several hundred points to the final average of 5806.


Intel C2D E8500 @ 4GHz
Asus P5Q-Pro
4GB G.Skill PC2-8500
BFG 9800GTX
Razer Barracuda AC-1


I started off with a good old fashioned, “How long does my PC take to start up?” test. Using a web based stopwatch on my wife’s PC I timed from pressing the power button until I saw the Windows background. No modifications were made to Windows to prevent anything from loading on start up. After half a dozen cold boots I took an average of the last 3 and came up with 47 seconds.


Next up was a HDTach running in windows XP compatibility mode.







Momentus XT
Barracuda 7200.10


Random Access
0.3ms
13.7ms


CPU Utilization
2%
3%


Average Read
85.9MB/s
66MB/s


Burst
230.9MB/s
242.6MB/s




To finish up a quick round of tests I ran PCMark Vantage full test suite.






PCMark suite
HDD Suite


Momentus XT
6948
5806


Barracude 7200.10
6406
3449



Since I have only ran this drive for a weekend I haven’t had an opportunity to really see it perform.  However, just playing the little bit that I have with it I have seen improvements with load times for games like World of Warcraft and just an overall snappier system.  Seagate hit the spot with this drive and I think this kind of technology is going to really help bridge the gap to SSD performance without breaking the bank.  I am really looking forward to spending more time with this drive and see what else it can help improve. This would be an ideal hard drive for a performance laptop or even a netbook that you wanted to squeeze out some more performance without losing all the storage space that switching to a SSD would cause.  Overall this little drive is getting highly recommended to any user looking to get some more performance without paying the big bucks for a solid state drive.


For anyone that is interested in getting some more information, the following webcast is open to anyone.


ASUS and Seagate Unveil the Momentus XT and the ROG G73JH with a live webcast


On Wednesday, May 26, at 11 a.m. PST, Seagate and OEM customer ASUS will co-sponsor a live webcast unveiling not only the new Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive, Momentus XT, but also featuring the new ASUS ROG G73JH system with two Momentus XT drives.   Three lucky attendees of this webcast will win a new G73 system just for attending. In addition, special guest speaker and famous gaming reviewer N’Gai Croal will provide an in-depth review of the new G73 powered by Momentus XT and how this system will transform high-performance computing.


To register for this live webcast:


https://seagate-events.webex.com/seagate-ev...amp;d=644000350






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Thecus N7700 Pro – More Than Just a NAS

 


Thecus, makers of fine storage products for all kinds of users and platforms, recently sent us the Pro version of their N7700 class NAS device. With a little help from our friends at Seagate, who graciously donated 8 TB of hard drives for us to test with, we take the N7700 Pro for a spin around the block and see what differentiates this storage device from an ever crowding field.


 


[DISCLAIMER: Thecus provided an N7700 Pro NAS unit for review in exchange for advertising space on PlanetAMD64 and PlanetX64. Seagate donated the drives to us with no compensation other than to be mentioned as our source of hard drives.] ï»¿


 


 





 


Appearance


Despite the “Pro� moniker, the Thecus N7700 Pro uses a mini-tower form factor. This is not a rack-mountable device. However, it is smaller than a typical PC mini-tower, so it does not occupy that much space. If stored in a rack enclosure on some sort for shelf, it will occupy a little over 7U of space, so plan accordingly. Clad in anodized black and silver, the mini-tower can hold seven drives in its chassis. That’s potentially 12 TB of RAID-5 storage with the largest drives currently available.


 


Status information is provided via an LCD display on the front. Several manual controls on the front can be used to modify basic setup settings in case the network gets misconfigured and the web interface is not accessible.


 





 


Features


Where to start? The unit is fully buzzword compliant and has recently been awarded VMware compatibility status. This means that VMware’s Hypervisor can reliably recognize the N7700 Pro as a storage device and even boot virtual machines from mounted iSCSI images.


 


Supported clients can be any combination of Windows, Mac, or Linux/Unix.


 


The N7700 Pro has Thecus’ Dual DOM architecture which means if the primary ROM gets messed up during an update, you can boot from a secondary ROM and reset the primary.


 


RAID modes offered include: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 & JBOD. Up to 3 modes can be supported simultaneously.


 


The unit is managed via a browser-based UI that is clean, well-designed and easy-to-use.


 


During setup you are offered a staggering variety of filesystems (EXT3, XFS, & ZFS) to choose from. Most notable among them is ZFS, a 128-bit journaling filesystem designed and built by Sun Microsystems which packs upper storage limits so ridiculously large, you would have to use every atom in the Earth’s crust to fill it. ZFS also allows for data expansion via zpools, so you can start small and add drives later to expand. Combine this with RAID-6 (dual parity redundant) volumes and you have the makings of a storage device that can only be taken out of commission through acts of sabotage. By creating ZFS volumes you can enable Snapshot version control for the ultimate in data redundancy.


 


It supports online migration, online expansion, hot-swap, & hot-spares.


 


It can communicate directly via RS-232 & USB to UPS systems.


 


The 7700 Pro sports 2 GbE ports which can be load-balanced, 802.3ad (ganged) or setup in a failover configuration. But for real speed, there is a 10 GbE option (for all you bleeding-edge types.)


 


Add a wireless dongle and the N7700 Pro also acts as a wireless access point.


 


The N7700 Pro can act as a DHCP Server or Client.


 


The N7700 Pro includes backup software for Windows and Mac clients. Linux/Unix client can backup via cron+rsync, as can more gregarious Mac users. I tested the rsync facilities using ChronoSync for Mac. By mounting an iSCSI target volume, Mac user can designate the N7700 Pro as a target for Time Machine backups. If you are going this route, I highly recommend setting up the network as 802.3ad ganged for maximum throughput (unless you have access to 10GB switches and NICs for Macs.)


 


The N7700 Pro includes a print server, media server (Windows Media and iTunes), Download Manager (Bittorrent, FTP, HTTP)


 


The N7700 Pro provides a plethora (I love using that word) of methods to access your data:


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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">TCP/IP
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">CIFS/SMB
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The N7700 Pro is also extensible. Thecus offers several add-on modules to enhance the functionality of the device (as if it didn’t do enough already.) The list (as of this review) includes:


 


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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Mail Server Module
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">MySQL Module
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Bi-directional USB Copy Module
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">NZB News Server Module
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Performance


In a nutshell, the N7700 Pro is FAST. I only had it configured with one GbE port and was able to back up my entire Windows Home Server (3.5 TB of data) via a Thermaltake BlackX USB drive toaster over the network in a matter of three days. The bottleneck there is the USB drive. In regular operation, I saw a noticeable improvement in my photographic workflow which includes saving a copy of all of my RAW image files to the NAS at ingestion.


 


The media server functions all work as advertised providing streaming audio, video, and photo services to any device on the network that understands the protocols. Installing the Twonky Media Server adds file transcoding to the N7700 Pro’s burgeoning resume. I was able to see videos on Macs, PCs and even my DirecTV HR200 DVR.


 


iSCSI targets are limited to 5 per filesystem but this is not really much of a limit in the N7700 Pro’s target demographic: SMB’s and advanced home networks.


 


Reliability


While not empirically tested, the N7700 Pro’s design has reliability as a top priority. If I had to pick a nit in this area, I would cite the lack of a redundant power supply as the only missing feature. Still, with a nice strong UPS attached the N7700 Pro offers users a product that can be counted on to keep their data safe.


 


Price


I have seen the N7700 Pro as low as $843 USD (without drives) in some casual Google searches. The average price tends to hover around $950 USD and some places as high as $999 (the MSRP.)


 


The Contest


As part of the Save the Planets Sponsorship drive, we are giving away a Thecus N7700 Pro NAS with 8TB of hard drives. All you have to do is become a PlanetAMD64 Sponsor and follow me on Twitter (@etrigan63). That’s it. No guessing games, no scavenger hunts. The winner of the N7700 Pro NAS will be announced on Twitter at the end of May 2010.


 






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Apple Sells One Million iPads

CUPERTINO, Calif., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPadâ„¢ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.


“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”


iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touchâ„¢ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*


Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.


*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.


Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.


© 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, iPad, Multi-Touch, iPhone and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.






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Thecus Enterprise NAS Now VMware Ready Certified

3/25/2010 -Thecus^®, the leader in storage solutions and a member of the VMware^® Technology Alliance Partner program, has always focused on providing business users with advanced and innovative storage solutions. Now, Thecus^® is ready to bring more good news by announcing that its enterprise NAS servers, the N7700+/PRO/SAS and N8800+/PRO/SAS, are now officially VMware^® Ready certified.





Receiving the VMware^® Ready certified logo means that these Thecus^® NAS products have passed all relevant laboratory testing and met all the integration and interoperability criteria outlined by VMware^®. VMware^® Ready certification also means that these products are fully compatible with VMware^® ESX 4.0 and are ready to run in a production environment to carry out mission critical business applications and operations.


Besides VMware^® support, Thecus^® enterprise NAS servers are packed with all the essential technologies for modern businesses. Together with 10GbE or SAS HDD support, businesses have the speed and technology required to create a storage network that is able to efficiently and effectively manage their data, enabling them to provide timely services to their customers.


Users can now find these products listed on the VMware^® Compatibility Guide.


For more information on Thecus^® products, please go to:


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About Thecus®
Thecus® Technology Corp. specializes in IP Storage Server solutions, including Network Attached Storage (NAS), DAS, External Storage and Wireless Media NAS (Bank) products. The company was established in 2004 with the mission to make technology as transparent and easy-to-use as possible, and to make products that are not only the best on the market, but are accessible to experts and novices alike. With a best-in-class R&D team highly experienced in storage hardware and Linux software and with a keen customer focus, Thecus® stays close to the market to develop high-quality products to fulfill the storage Server needs of today’s world.






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Thecus N4200 NAS with 6D Technology

03/01/2010 – Whether people are taking photos of their baby’s first steps, or filming their vacations with their digital camcorder, the need for more digital storage is growing at a rapid rate. For these users who need to make sure that their precious memories are protected, Thecus® has created the N4200 featuring exclusive 6D Technology.


Dual Core CPU – The N4200 is powered by the new Intel® Atomâ„¢ D510 dual-core processor. Running at 1.66GHz, this CPU, paired with 1GB of DDR2 memory, delivers quick system response and can even smoothly handle multiple client access. Data can be accessed and transferred quickly, so you don’t have to wait around to enjoy your favorite movies, music, photos and more. The N4200’s Intel® Atomâ„¢ D510 dual-core CPU offers wicked performance for the home user.


Dual DOM Technology – The Disk On Module (DOM) of a NAS device contains all of the software necessary to operate the machine. Should it fail for any reason, your NAS will become inaccessible and your data could be at risk. To ensure maximum uptime, the N4200 includes Thecus®â€™ Dual DOM Technology, which allows a secondary DOM to reprogram the primary one if anything goes wrong.


Dual Displays – Take control of your NAS with the N4200’s Dual Display Technology. The N4200 comes with an LCD display that shows you critical system information, while the 2.8â€� OLED display allows you to change a number of settings right from the device including WAN, LAN, Link Aggregation and language. Managing your home NAS just doesn’t get any easier than with the N4200.


Dual Power – If the power happens to go out during a critical firmware upgrade, your NAS could be in trouble. The N4200 comes equipped with its own Battery Backup Module (BBM) – a lithium-ion battery pack that kicks in during a power outage and allows the system to save unwritten data to the hard disks, thereby maintaining data integrity.


Dual HDD Profile Support – The N4200 features combo drive bays that allow users to install either 2.5� or 3.5� hard disks. Users can install the smaller 2.5� drives to save power and lower noise, or choose 3.5� drives for huge capacity, making the N4200 an incredibly flexible NAS.


Dual RAID – Why choose between performance and security? The N4200 allows you to configure two RAID modes simultaneously for optimum data transfer rates and rock-solid data integrity. With the power of Dual RAID, the N4200 is your digital data fortress.


Fast, secure, and incredibly easy-to-use, the N4200 with 6D Technology is the ideal storage device for the digital lifestyle.


For more information on the N4200, go to:
http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?ci...mp;#038;pid=220


For more information on Thecus, go to:
http://www.thecus.com






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