Thursday, August 21, 2014

Are Solid State Hard Drives Going To Come Down In Price

  I have been doing some searching on the internet and it looks like the prices of  Solid State Hard Drives  are slowly coming down. It would be nice to make them more affordable for the general public. In the beginning when we first saw the solid state hard drive they were extremely expensive. I myself have noticed that they did drop a little where I work. At this point and time if you can afford a solid state hard drive they will make somewhat of an improvement in speed. They function very well as the boot drive in any system. I would just recommend a good power supply running 650 watts or more. Especially if you are running more than one hard drive or two optical drives.



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  In 2011 the average cost of a solid state hard drive was $2.42 per Giga Byte of hard drive space. It would have cost about $250.00 for a 100GB solid state hard rive. At Newegg.com you can find a 256GB Samsung Solid State Hard Drive for about $169.00, which is not too bad of a price. On the higher end you will find 800GB Solid State Hard Drives costing in the thousands of dollars. This maybe appropriate for computer in a business environment, but not for the general computer user. My advise is to stay with a sata hard drive due to cost verses the amount of hard drive space.
  Right now a 1TB Sata 3.5 inch at Newegg will cost about $70 and a 2TB Sata Hard Drive runs around $90 Dollars. So if you are looking for a solid state hard drive I would check out Newegg. I have used them many times and never had a problem. Outside of Newegg I would search Amazon and Ebay. I have also found some very good prices there as well. So what is the best brand of Solid State Hard Drive  on the market today. From looking at reviews it looks like Samsung is one of the best brands available. The other popular brands that I have seen are Plextor,  Vector and Neutron.
  So whatever your choice is I would check as many reviews as you can find on the internet for a particular solid state hard drive. Check out the good or bad reviews on the reseller or dealer you may be thinking of purchasing the hard drive from. A very good place to check out a reseller on the internet is resellerratings.com where you may be able to locate helpful information.
  Thank You for reading. 

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