February Hard Drive + SSD 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.

The Solid State Drive market obviously works on a very different set of economics compared to standard PATA and SATA hard drives, and the $/GB ratings in the SSD chart are significantly higher. Three drives are now sitting below the $2/GB level, with the pqi S525 128GB (1.91-cents/GB), SuperTalent MasterDrive OX 256GB ($1.94/GB) and Transcend 128GB ($1.97/GB) solid-state drives leading the way. We continue to see value ratings fall to more manageable levels, and twenty-one out of the thirty SSD listings are now sitting at under $3/GB.

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Page 1 February Hard Drive + SSD 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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