Tracking SSD costs

[TooNice]

I am more frustrated with HDTach than any other HD benchmark tools. It's far from being useless, but a lot of people seem to see it as the end and all in determining HD performance.

It's a shame that Storagereview appears to be a declining website. They've put a lot of effort to put together their test methodology for mechanical drive, and I've learnt a lot reading their articles and forum posts over the year.

It's a shame that updates have become sparse, and it does not look like they'll be expending their focus to SSDs. Still, so far I've been impressed by Anandtech's articles on SSDs.

[malfunction]

Originally Posted by TooNice

It's a shame that Storagereview appears to be a declining website. They've put a lot of effort to put together their test methodology for mechanical drive, and I've learnt a lot reading their articles and forum posts over the year.

Me too - it's a very geeky website but it's nice to know what the performance difference is between what you have and what you're buying next.

Originally Posted by TooNice

It's a shame that updates have become sparse, and it does not look like they'll be expending their focus to SSDs. Still, so far I've been impressed by Anandtech's articles on SSDs.

I like the detail in the anandtech articles but I have to wonder if the intel SSDs are as outstanding as their articles make them sound (not saying they aren't good but it reads as biased, would love to be able to compare them myself in terms of real world usage - random writes are obviously very good on the intel drives compared to the rest)

[TooNice]

5 weeks since the last update.

G.Skill Falcon from MemoryC:
64GB £160.63 -> £158.70 (-£1.93)
128GB £307.43 -> £296.24 (-£11.19)
256GB £473.37 -> £469.75 (-£3.62)

Intel from Scan:
80GB: £171.12 -> £192.68 (+£21.56)
160GB: £338.28 -> £501.39 (+£161.11; £365 at OcUK; Places listed for cheaper are out of stock)

I'll keep this thread/post for reference. And I have to say that I agree - I'd love to be proven wrong, but £200 for 500GB? Not a chance in my opinion.

60GB drives are only £5 down from 7 months ago.
120GB drives are £10 down (but up from 5 months ago).
256GB drives are £148 down (up from 2 months ago, but still impressive-ish).