See The Best Internal 2.5″ and 3.5″ Hard Drives (HDD) For Your Money article to see the hard drives that I recommend and their prices. Roughly 4 times less than the price per GB of a SSD
See The Best SSDs For Your Money article for SSDs that I recommend and their prices.Ī 2TB hard drive can be found for $50 or $0.025 per GB. The price per GB goes up with smaller capacities such as 250GB or 500GB though, due to the way SSDs are manufactured. The Crucial BX500 is one of the SSDs with the lowest price per GB.ġTB SSDs start at $100, or $0.10 per GB. In an ideal world, you’d get a computer with a 2 or 4 or even 8TB SSD drive. While this is more than what was available 5 years ago and is catching up to hard drives in laptops, which have storage capacities of 500GB, 1 or 2TB, it is still no match for desktop hard drives, which are available in storage capacities up to 16TB. There are also 8TB stand alone SSDs available for the server/enterprises market and we might see some consumer models sooner than later. The two main issues with SSDs:Īs of 2020, common consumer SSD storage capacities are: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB.ĤTB is available on a few stand-alone SSD models, while 8TB SSD storage capacities can be found in high-end computers, such as the Apple Mac Pro. That lower cost comes at the price of all the benefits that I just listed. Simply put, I cannot see any reason nowadays to get a computer with a hard drive, other than a lower cost for an higher capacity. They also offer lower power consumption (longer battery life), less noise, no vibration, smaller physical size (smaller computers), higher reliability and higher resistance to shocks.
See the SSD FAQ for more details on SSDs. Your PC feels more responsive, programs launch far more quickly, the Operating System starts in seconds and resumes from sleep nearly instantaneously. How much higher is the performance?Įnough to offer you a better computer experience because it responds to your inputs much more quickly. Why choose a SSD over a hard drive?Ĭompared to hard drives, a SSD offers lower latency, faster read/writes, and supports more IOPS (input output operations per second). On the right, a mechanical hard drive, with its rotating platter visible at the top. On the left, an older 2.5″ Solid State Drive, with its 10 memory chips visible at the bottom.
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