We have in our hands the 480 GB model to test out. With help from Crucial, Western Digital, Kingston, ADATA and SanDisk – we will have a look at their most affordable storage solutions.Īll of these drives, which are all available in different storage sizes, can be purchased on Amazon.Ĭrucial just released their new budget SSD series, named BX500 which comes in three sizes: 120, 240 and 480 GB. Today’s roundup will try to show just that – that SSDs have gotten to a very attractive price/performance/capacity threshold to make you forget all about the ol’ spinning buzzing machines.
Well, with time, the solid state technology caught up and now were are almost at the point of seeing the retirement of the HDDs. While SSDs were completely ‘digital’, HDDs remained cheaper and offered far greater storage options. Why? Because they use moving parts and thus have physical limits. When SSDs (solid state drives) first came out, as per any new tech, they were expensive because they finally promised us the revolution we were expecting for a while – to remove the last ‘dinosaur’ bottleneck from our systems – we are talking about HDD (hard drives) of course.
