14 DAY TRIAL // IT companies, like anyone else, definitely have a reason to rejoice when one of their more daring projects bears good and plentiful fruit, so it is not strange to see Seagate celebrating the Momentus XT.
Users might remember that, back in May, Seagate introduced a certain invention known as a solid state hybrid drive.
Dubbed Momentus XT, it is, essentially, a hard drive unit with built-in NAND Flash memory, (4 GB of SLC to be exact).
With this to enable faster boot and application loading times, users turned out to be quite receptive to the idea, buying enough of them for Seagate to feel like celebrating.
According to a recent press release, Seagate has judged that the Momentux XT has passed the 1 million shipment mark.
"With Momentus XT hybrid drives, laptop users don't have to make trade-offs when buying a system based on speed, cost or capacity," said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president, chief sales and marketing officer.
"We're delighted that the Momentus XT drive has been enthusiastically received in the marketplace and look forward to introducing the next generation of the product, which will give consumers an even better, faster computing experience, before the year is out."
Laptops form Toshiba, ASUS, Alienware and Sony are among the systems that feature one of these drives, though the XT can also be bought standalone.
The 2.5-inch form factor is one of the assets that made these companies amenable to having the model as part of their configurations.
Reviewers also welcomed the product with praise, though it remains to be seen if the successor (it might arrive by year's end) will see similar ovation.
"Seagate's shipment of its one millionth Momentus XT drive is just the beginning of a bright future for solid state hybrid drives," said John Rydning, research director at IDC.
"Fast, capacious, and economical hybrid HDD and NAND flash storage solutions like the Momentus XT drive will be found in roughly 25 percent of all new PCs shipped in 2015."