Seagate Dishes Out Momentus XT HDD, World's Fastest 2.5-Inch HDD [Hard Drives]

Offering 250GB, 320GB and 500GB options, Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT HDD is allegedly the world's fastest 2.5-inch drive for laptops (breaking their previous record), and

comes in at a shade over 100 bucks.

The hybrid drive is 80 per cent faster than the usual 7,200rpm drive, and up to 100 per cent faster than a 5,400rpm one, with 4GB of SSD capacity and 32MB of DDR3 cache

memory. It's not quite as fast as straight SSDs, but are a heck of a lot faster than the usual HDD—and at that price, you can't complain.

Full details are below in the press release, but if this model does tickle your fancy, OverClockersClub has already done a full review of the 500GB model, saying that while it's not an

SSD killer, they "would call it an HDD killer. The Momentus XT beats out traditional hard drives in just about every test." [Seagate]