With prices like these - everybody should have SSD's for their OS

Hi folks
with prices like these there's no excuse for people NOT to have SSD's these days for everything except large data volumes-- even the 1TB SSD's are relatively affordable now

Here's from Amazon UK -- note in UK prices INCLUDE VAT / Sales tax unlike US sites - and if you export you can get tax rebate making it cheaper.

Amazon.co.uk | Internal Solid State Drives

(1 GBP = approx. USD 1.32, EUR 1.12)

Forget that Black Friday nonsense -- especially if you don't come from or live in USA - better and easier deals online !!!.

Cheers
jimbo

Not when you work for peanuts just little bellow the U.S , a little right to Germany and down under as Africa your quote might sound offending :)

Hi there
some of these prices are cheaper than the equivalent HDD's --- on these Forums people often suggest decent level pricey hardware -- I can't think why the post is in any way condescending -- I don't get offended if I'm looking at the specs for say a brand top of the line Mercedes with people saying excellent value for money even though I could never afford one in a million years (lottery winning excepted).

Think there's a bit too much "If I can't afford it -- then it's wrong / evil etc etc" . In any case the amount of equipment I've donated to charities etc and help them set it up says to me I don't disregard people to whom this might be serious money. All technology comes at a price - my post was saying the price is now dropping rapidly and if you are in the market then it should be looked at.

Cheers
jimbo

Well, they aren't expensive however the prices range differently as to accordance of each currency

AS185 said:

Well, they aren't expensive however the prices range differently as to accordance of each currency

Hi there
presumably due to local taxation, import costs, profitabilty of the sellers and currency fluctuations.
I still think a good deal if you are looking for these devices. Prices could rise later as some of the components ("Rare Earth" materials) come from China where commodity prices (i.e prices of raw materials) are rising.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi there @CountMike

You can still find loads of 2.5 inch laptop HDD's around with capacities from around 250GB to 1TB -- with SATA-->usb3 connections they make quite decent HDD's for backups / archives etc and these only cost pennies now !!!!

If you have a local tip (re-cycling centre) you might be able to get some old discarded laptops as well --just remove the HDD's. The 7200 rpm ones are better but they all work. If you want them as internal devices plenty of 2.5-->3.5 mounting racks available - or add another sata / esata card --usually you can get 4 extra ports on those.

I got a load of ex laptop HDD's by inserting SSD's for people who couldn't do it themselves !!! they all said I could keep the old disks.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi there @CountMike
SATA ones -- marked 3.0Gb/s (theoretical of course) but that SATA connection is fine -- OK modern HDD's can do theoretically 6.0Gb/s or faster especially esata. You must have got the old IDE or PATA ones !!! OK running those is about as fast as using floppy disk drives --I agree but the sata ones esepcially 7200 RPM ones work just fine for ultra cheap storage.

Cheers
jimbo

The price per GB will always be higher for SSD/NVMe drives, than for HDD. The gap between the two has been getting narrower, but it's still roughly twice as much for SSD than HDD for the 500GB size. In my view, affordability is still an important consideration for people, but I tend to side with Jimbo. An SSD for the OS results in a huge performance increase, somewhere along the line of three to four times when compared to HDD. It really boils down to what level of performance one can afford.

At the beginning of this year, I've started to build system with PCIe x4 NVMe drives, one for the OS and the other for data for small businesses. The price difference between the SSD and the PCIe x4 NVMe drives is non-existent for all practical purposes. The backup drive is still HDD, there's no real justification for getting an SSD for this purpose