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Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the did-this-really-need-saying dept.

Lucas123 writes "While solid state disks may be all the rage, what's often being overlooked in the current consumer market hype is that fact that hard disk drive prices are at an all-time low — offering users good performance and massive amounts of capacity for 10 to 30 cents a gigabyte. And in a side by side comparison of overall performance of consumer SSDs and HDDs, it's hard to justify spending 10 times as much for a little more speed."

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  1. Re:Understatement by jo42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the choice between a 256GB SSD and a 1.5TB HD, I'll go for capacity every time...

  2. Re:If you have ever owned one by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Troll

    Huh. I just installed the Ubuntu Karmic alpha, and the boot speed is insanely quick. They're looking at 10s average boot times for the next release... spinning disks are fine if you run a properly designed OS.

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