Seagate Momentus XT hybrid in M11x Cloning?

I have ordered a new Seagate Momentus XT 500GB for my M11x and I wondered if anyone else has installed on of these drive? The specs look like a lot of bang for the buck. Aslo has anyone cloned thier factory hard drive to a new drive using Acronis or another program? Did the recovery partition copy as well? Thanks!
M11x 8GB 500Gb 7200 Windows 7 Ultimate
A8JM Asus

 

I like Norton Ghost, you can clone both partitions pretty easily using Ghost, not sure about acronis.

 

I will be upgrading to one soon, but as it does technically have an ssd in it, I wouldn't recommend cloning to it, a fresh install would be better.

 

From what I understand, the end user doesn't access the 'SSD' section of the drive, merely the drive has it's own algorithms that copies commonly used files from the disk drive onto the NAND. However I could be mistaken.

 

Karmond I believe you are correct the Nand flash is hardware allocated and is not really used as merely an additional SSD.

 

It makes no difference - cloning your old 500GB to the new 500GB will work just fine.
As far as your system is concerned, it's just a drive like any other...

 

Based on early reviews and benchmarks, the Momentus hybrid is basically a great standard HD - one of the fastest available. The 4GB SSD is strictly used by the HD (and its controller) to adapt to common tasks and user behaviors, making some functions faster.

I'm getting one as soon as it comes out, mainly because here in Toronto, $150 for a really fast platter drive is more reasonable than $300 for a 128GB SSD.

Bottom line - if you go for the Momentus expecting it to perform like an SSD, you will be disappointed. If you go into it thinking it is a platter HD with bonus cache memory, it will exceed your wildest expectations.

 

I cloned my 160 to my new 500 using seagates program and a sata-usb dock. worked pretty slick.

 

I've used Clonezilla in the past. I should get a copy of Ghost though.

 

Is your drive any louder than the standard M11X drive? I've heard reviews that it chirps a bit more than average drives.

 

Yes it is, it is always indexing or something.... I can hear the arm clicking about ever 10-15 seconds.

 

Do you have Windows Indexing on?

 

SSD is the cure for the m11x. My wife has a standard m11x with the 160gb 5400rpm and I have a 60gb ssd. We both load up DDO (dungeon and dragons) and I am in and playing minutes before she gets in. Everyone wants to get the most out of there m11x. SSD really makes a difference. Responsive...very responsive...

BW,

StevenX

 

No, I turned it off in hopes the drive would stop. my other seagate external drive does the same thing. its kind of annoying.

 

Steven,
I have had ssd's before and while inital performance was indeed quick, after a bit they seemed to slow down. Biggest problem is with the pricing! I need the 500GB so I see the Momentus XT as the best (quickest 500GB) solution. my intent in this thread really was not to open the SSD VS platter drive discussion, but to see if anyone had a Momentus installed and what they thought about the performance VS 500GB standard drive.

 

Can I ask how you are finding the momentus xt?
My M11x is coming with the standard 500Mb HD and I have been considering this upgrade.

 

Newegg. They'll get them in and sell out pretty quickly. Sign up for email notification and buy the second they come in. Tiger Direct also carries them.

 

Ive already got my XT, just waiting on the M11x to show up (EDD Jul 29)

 

please let us all know how it is , so far the only thing bottlenecking my m11x seems to be the hdd , altho really , its not that much worse than my desktop