Because of the cost of bearings and motors and stuff, HDDs have a 'price floor' of about $40. Having the regular retail price of an SSD dip below this, in a useful size, is the tipping point we've been waiting for.
^ Look at the reviewer uploaded images, some were scoring nearer 500MB/s writes. Granted some if not all of those were for the 960GB version, in cases like this it is annoying that lumps together reviews for several products on the same page.
On the other hand it could be a matter of which SATA version their motherboard supports, and/or whether it's a decent mobo chipset or an aftermarket chipset on a PCIe card.
It IS slower than many, but would be a good cost effective upgrade for an older SATA 1 or 2 system, or I could see buying a refurb laptop and tossing one of these in for a cheap way to do most common things.
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Because of the cost of bearings and motors and stuff, HDDs have a 'price floor' of about $40. Having the regular retail price of an SSD dip below this, in a useful size, is the tipping point we've been waiting for.
^ Look at the reviewer uploaded images, some were scoring nearer 500MB/s writes. Granted some if not all of those were for the 960GB version, in cases like this it is annoying that lumps together reviews for several products on the same page.
On the other hand it could be a matter of which SATA version their motherboard supports, and/or whether it's a decent mobo chipset or an aftermarket chipset on a PCIe card.
It IS slower than many, but would be a good cost effective upgrade for an older SATA 1 or 2 system, or I could see buying a refurb laptop and tossing one of these in for a cheap way to do most common things.
Thank you!