Remember the Seagate Momentus XT we reviewed last year? The drive was a cross between a traditional notebook drive and an SSD drive, giving a small amount of solid state space to boost application boot time and performance, while having a traditional platter for storage space. Well despite the glowing reviews it has gotten, a number of long-term users have observed that the drive chirps, stutters, crashes and freezes alarmingly regularly, especially when used on a Mac. This may be due to the Momentus XTs drives spinning down inappropriately due to an overzealous power management scheme. Thank goodness we didn't opt for one in our primary Macbook Pro!
However, Seagate is not huddled up in a reality distortion field, as they are actively involved in getting the problem fixed. So far, new firmware updates have addressed some of the symptoms, while a third is on the way.
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