Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD

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."

Comments

Re:Understatement

[jo42]

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

Thank you, Captain obvious.

[Anonymous Coward]

This should win the "duh" award. I don't think anybody outside a relatively small community of super-geeks even gives a flop about SSD's, and I'm pretty sure they're qualified to do a cost-benefit analysis.

How did this article even make it to the front page? Aren't there ground breaking stories about Miss California or something?

Re:If you have ever owned one

[PitaBred]

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.