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Considering the prices of much smaller units, thats not a bad price range. Still too expensive for most people though.
More...Over recent years Solid State Drives (SSDs) have moved from luxury to affordable additions to one's PC. The cost of an SSD depends largely upon the capacity of the drive, which has meant that mechanical hard drives still dominate when it comes to storage, with SSDs more suited to storing one's operating system and frequently used applications.
For example, a 128GB SSD will set you back $300-$400 depending on manufacturer. For the same amount of cash you can get a four or five Terrabytes worth of normal hard drive space.
Considering the prices of much smaller units, thats not a bad price range. Still too expensive for most people though.
True, but remember what the cost of what were, by todays standards, very small (miniscule) HDDs when they first came out?
Upgrading & Repairing PCs 19th Edition, Scott Mueller said:
The good thing about newer, bigger SSDs is that eventually it will drive the prices down on the smaller ones. However, at the price of the 1TB now, that won't have much effect until there is competitive products.
We all know SSDs are rapidly improving (cheaper and better), but are they actually catching up with HDDs. Because if they don't catch up with regular drives (which are still improving rapidly), they'll never hit the mainstream.
SSDs are just not practical yet, they are either too small ore too pricey. pick your poison with them. HDDs at least have nice size for a nice price, even if less reliable and slower. I could buy 3 2TB HDDs before i get a 1TB SDD, 1 to run, one for backup and one just in case one fails, and i would still hardly scratch the price of that SDD!
Cost prohibitive at the moment. But give it time.
IDK if OCZ makes good hard drives, but I use their RAM and it is good.
Since the primary benefit of a SSD is to run an OS from, what would a person need with all that extra space? I have been considering a small SSD, but even that has a number of issues to consider.