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momentus xt vs. full solid state?
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<blockquote data-quote="chrsb5" data-source="post: 1188089" data-attributes="member: 179150"><p>I tried a Momentus XT a little over a month ago, and would NOT recommend them to anyone for use on a Mac. I cloned the drive from my mid-09 MPB to the 500gb Momentus XT, booted it and almost immediately started noticing latency issues, spinning beachball when doing simple, non memory intensive tasks like opening a browser while having mail open. I decided to give it a bit to see if it improved, it didn't. A few boots later, I got the dreaded flashing question mark folder. </p><p></p><p>Also did a fresh install from the factory DVDs of 10.6 with similar results on the XT AND incase I had a bad unit, tried another XT with the same results. </p><p></p><p>Go either for a normal 7200rpm drive if you need the space, or a real SSD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chrsb5, post: 1188089, member: 179150"] I tried a Momentus XT a little over a month ago, and would NOT recommend them to anyone for use on a Mac. I cloned the drive from my mid-09 MPB to the 500gb Momentus XT, booted it and almost immediately started noticing latency issues, spinning beachball when doing simple, non memory intensive tasks like opening a browser while having mail open. I decided to give it a bit to see if it improved, it didn't. A few boots later, I got the dreaded flashing question mark folder. Also did a fresh install from the factory DVDs of 10.6 with similar results on the XT AND incase I had a bad unit, tried another XT with the same results. Go either for a normal 7200rpm drive if you need the space, or a real SSD. [/QUOTE]
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