Last week we found three Seagate Momentus XT drives on our price search engine, which has constantly proven to be more hard working and meticulous than our staff, who sort off missed them. As we said back then, we like the idea of adding 4GB of SLC NAND on a classing hard drive, but the high price tags were a bit discomforting.

However, judging by an early review posted by overclockersclub.com, the new drives are worth every penny and cent, except for euro cents, which are now almost worthless thanks to Greece's recently ousted government. The reviewer praised the Momentus XT in every conceivable way. They are faster than HDDs, cheaper than SSDs and in RAID 0 they can catch up with SSD drives as well. Basically, they combine the best of both worlds.

It appears that the drives are very intelligent when it comes to managing the ultra fast 4GB SLC chips, as they quickly pick up user habits and speed up the most frequently used applications. Boot times are also greatly improved and the reviewer claims the SLC shaved some 13 seconds from the usual startup time of the test rig.

This about sums it up: "The Seagate Momentus XT has been dubbed around the net as a SSD killer. Would I call it that? No, but what I would call it an HDD killer."

It's a worthwhile read, so be sure to check it out.