October Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 6

Solid State Drive Value

As in the previous PATA and SATA hard drive charts, the following list takes the various Solid State Drives and tries to determine with models and capacities offer the best overall value. Although we use the tried-and-true method of determining hard drive value, using a "price per GB" column, it's a bit more difficult when comparing Solid State Drive technology - not only due to the significantly higher prices, but also because of performance and features differences between models. Even so, the chart gives us a different view on which SSD brands, speeds and capacities offer the best GB bang for the buck.

It's obvious that the Solid State Drive market works on a very different set of economics compared to standard PATA and SATA hard drives. The $/GB ratings in the SSD chart are significantly higher, and even the best value rating here is not even close to the PATA or SATA listings, and even far outpaces the worst-rated Raptor and VelociRaptor hard drives. But it's all relative, and the standard SuperTalent 128GB SSD still takes the top value spot at $2.39/GB, followed by the Transcend 64GB ($2.69/GB) and SuperTalent 64GB ($2.77/GB). On the other end of the chart, the ultra high-end SuperTalent MasterDrive PX 32GB and 64GB models account for the two lowest rated values.

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Page 1 October Hard Drive Price Guide Page 2 Serial ATA Hard Drive Price List Page 3 Solid State Drive Price List Page 4 Parallel ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 5 Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 6 Solid State Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 7 Parallel & Serial ATA HDs and SSDs Sorted by Price Change Page 8 Parallel & Serial ATA HDs and SSDs Sorted by Price

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