It's a lot less expensive at £80 for 500GB, but it's not all good news, particularly for MacBook owners. Thanks to the drive's adaptive technology, your most frequently accessed files are placed on the SSD portion of the drive, which helps provide a notable performance improvement with reading (but not writing) files. As its name suggests, the MomentusXT Hybrid combines traditional HDD storage with a tiny amount of SSD (4GB). There is a third way in the form of a 2.5-inch hybrid drive from Seagate. You'll get a major performance boost, but you won't solve your disk space problem. The sad, unpalatable fact is that a 64GB SSD will cost you the same as a 2.5-inch 750MB or 3.5-inch 2TB HDD (around £90-100). But all of these benefits come with a hefty premium attached. SSDs are unbelievably quick compared to their sloth-like rivals, consume less power and are silent in operation, which makes them a perfect fit for MacBooks. You then need to choose between a traditional hard drive (HDD) or the newer, much faster solid-state drive (SSD).
MacBook Airs don't use standard SATA drives - we cover this separately below. The other key consideration is that you pick the right size drive for your Mac - 2.5-inch for MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, and 3.5-inch for Mac Pros. It's important you pick the right type of hard drive for your Mac: that means SATA rather than IDE for all Macs since 2006.
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