[mythtvnz] SSD versus rotational HD pricing

Steve Hodge stevehodge at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 08:43:27 BST 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:26:17 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >WHEN! the 1TB drives drop below $300 then I will upgrade my back end
> >storage as well. But right now they have and will continue to be my main
> >boot drives and application drives due to performance and nothing to do
> >with price.
>
> 1 Tbyte drives have been well less than $300 for quite some time now.
> And the good ones are capable of significantly more than 100 Mibytes/s
> sustained throughput.  1.5 Tbyte drives are well below $200 now also.
> 2 Tbyte drives are still a little expensive, but coming down now.
>

Daniel was talking about 1TB SSD drives.

According to pricespy the best price for a 2TB is $199 - 10 cents a
gigabyte. I kind of wish I'd ripped all my CDs to flac instead of mp3 now...

Cheers,
Steve
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