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I have Seagate Momentus XT 500GB in some of our sales staff's notebooks, because they need the extra Space.
It don't boot as fast as a SSD(logic) but its almost as fast when its running and your applications is cached on the SSD part. But only "almost". The access time is noticeable longer, and as soon as you need to read from the large disk, you notice the difference.
If you only Work in Office documents, or surf the web, you will get a lot of bang for the bucks, since it will have no problem storing that on the cache
But all people here, hat don't need the extra Space, have 120-240 GB SSD disks instead, because its so much faster and the batteries much longer. Most people have Intel models (320,510,520) but we have tested the Samsun 830 and 840 models, because they are much cheaper. On paper and in theory, they are slower, but you cant feel the difference IRL, unless you run a SQL server or do Video editing.
If you don't need the space, get a Intel 520 SSD
If you want a larger SSD but don't have the money, get a large Samsung SSD
If you need 1tb of space in a notebook, get the Hybrid
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