[dba-Tech] SSD Pricing

[Gary Kjos]

Amazon.com has 1TB SSD drives from Samsung, WD, Seagate, Crucial,
Sandisk and Mushkin for between $149 and $169 USD.

500 GB drives are about $85 USD.

I have SSD drives on my two main desktops, a 250GB on this one and a
500GB on the other one in my office but I also have spinning disks on
each machine as well - a 1TB drive I believe on this one and a 5TB on
the other one.  Just data on the spinning disks, music on this one and
mostly photos and video on the 5TB in the office.

My notebook computer has a 500 GB SSD.

The main performance benefit in my opinion is on the boot drive and
loading software.  Accessing Data is less speed intensive.  I do have
some document files on each of the SSD drives of course.

GK

GK
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:35 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just checked my local hardware dealer's website, and he is offering 480GB
> SSDs for $109 CDN. I then checked to see what a 1TB SDD costs, and suddenly
> the price shoots seriously skyward, from over $500 to over $1000, depending
> on the brand.
>
> Now the question becomes, can I fit two 480s into my HP ProBook 6470b? If
> not, there is an alternative. I found a USB 3.0 external 1TB SSD for
> substantially less, but somehow it seems self-defeating to combine SSD with
> USB.
>
> Opinions?
>
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