For its newsletter subscribers only, newegg.com offers the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 2.5″ SATA 3Gb/s Internal Solid State Hybrid Laptop Hard Drive, model no. ST95005620AS, for $129.99. Coupon code “EMCYTZT160″ cuts it to $109.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.22/GB, $5 under last week’s mention, and the lowest total price we could find by $20. (It’s also the least expensive 500GB hybrid drive we’ve seen.) The Momentus XT Hybrid adds 4GB of SLC NAND solid state flash storage to a 7200 rpm hard drive with a 32MB cache. Its Adaptive Memory technology places commonly used applications and files on the SSD portion of the drive, claiming up to “80% faster performance over standard 7200 rpm drives.” Coupon expires September 28.
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