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Monthly High-end Gaming System Buyer's Guide |
February Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff March 2, 2009Standard PATA and SATA hard drives still make up the vast majority of desktop PC, or even notebook, configurations, but demand for Solid State Drive (SSD) technology is growing by leaps and bounds. SSD drives replace conventional hard drive platters, motors and read heads with flash memory, lowering noise, heat and power requirements, while offering significant performance gains. These SSD drives also represent a popular upgrade for existing notebooks, and even high-end desktop users are migrating to this technology as their primary boot/OS drive. Due to this increased demand and a significant rise in SSD visibility with online retailers, this is an emerging market that deserves coverage. In this section, we are covering 2.5" SATA SSDs, although 3.5" models will be forthcoming. The solid-state drive listings continue to grow a bit larger as the months go by, and we added four new models in February. SSD pricing has also maintained its steady downward trend. Two of the price decreases hit triple-digits, as the OCZ Core V2 250GB and Crucial 64GB solid-state drives fell by $115 and $107, respectively. Two others surpassed $50, and in all, there were nine price drops of $10 or higher. Unfortunately, we're also seeing a few unwelcome price increases, the largest of which was a $52 spike to the G.SKILL Titan 256GB SSD. But the overall result is still in the consumer's favor, and the SSD chart dropped by a total of $303 for the month.
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