"Just over a year ago Seagate introduced their 1st Generation Momentus XT 500GB SATA II hybrid drive which was basically the marriage of a 7200RPM 500GB HDD with 4GB of SLC NAND Flash. So exactly like other hybrid solutions the most frequent used data were moved to the 4GB NAND Flash part of the drive while the least used data remained on the normal HDD. Fast forward a year later and Seagate just released the 2nd Generation of the Momentus XT drive, this time however the drive supports the SATA III protocol, the main HDD comes with 750GB of space and the SLC NAND Flash part has been doubled to a total of 8GB compared to the 4GB of the previous generation. What do all these translate as when it comes to performance compared to other similar solutions? Well we are also quite curious about that so read on to find out."
