The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Seagate Momentus XT's, what do you have?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by dolsson, Nov 30, 2010.

  1. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    32
    Messages:
    99
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Good morning all,

    The G73JH-X3 that I bought came with the two 320GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4. After a lot of reading on these forums and elsewhere I decided that the additional storage I needed was going to come from the Momentus XT's. So I bought two of them.

    I like the additional performance boost for commonly accessed applications since I basically do the same thing over and over on this machine. The added storage is also pretty nice, the two 320GB drives were just not enough I found.

    What is everyone else running out there for HDD's? I know a lot of you do the SSD for OS and then a larger standard drive for everything else (wasn't quite in my budget) - but lets hear it!
     
    dolsson, Nov 30, 2010
    #1
  2. vvxu27

    vvxu27 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Have booked 1 notebook with ocz 2 120g for system,and a XT hybird 500g for data.

    waiting for shipping.....

    haven't got yet...
     
    vvxu27, Nov 30, 2010
    #2
  3. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    32
    Messages:
    99
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Sounds good, that will be sweet as hell.

    Maybe you'll actually break 5.9 in WEI!
     
    dolsson, Nov 30, 2010
    #3
  4. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

    Reputations:
    358
    Messages:
    1,558
    Likes Received:
    57
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Seagate Hybrid 500GB boot drive and testing new Seagate 750GB 7200rpm drive for data.

    Cheers,
     
    panzer06, Nov 30, 2010
    #4
  5. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    32
    Messages:
    99
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    That's a pretty high capacity drive you've got there! What's the model?
     
    dolsson, Nov 30, 2010
    #5
  6. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

    Reputations:
    358
    Messages:
    1,558
    Likes Received:
    57
    Trophy Points:
    66
    panzer06, Nov 30, 2010
    #6
  7. Chili Palmer

    Chili Palmer Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I used to have the Seagate Mometus XT hybrids in muine (2 X 500GB) only to find that they were causing me problems with Audio stutter and video stall. Reverted back to factory Seagate 500GB drives and machine runs great (again).
     
    Chili Palmer, Nov 30, 2010
    #7
  8. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    32
    Messages:
    99
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Bah... I hope that doesn't happen over here... Good thing I kept those old drives.
     
    dolsson, Nov 30, 2010
    #8
  9. stamar

    stamar Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    454
    Messages:
    6,802
    Likes Received:
    102
    Trophy Points:
    231
    I have an xt and the 5400.6 that it came with.

    I cant see the point of an xt for the data drive.

    btw I started out with the xt in the gpu bay and then I noticed the temperatures of gpu cpu and hd rising.

    So I put it in the seperate bay and temperatures went way down.
    the 5400.6 runs much cooler.

    I assume you guys do the same?
     
    stamar, Nov 30, 2010
    #9