So what about those 500GB mechanical notebook drives? Today, they're available for between 26 and 17 cents per gigabyte. Most will set you back less than a c-note, which, in the SSD world, buys just 32GB. The fact that traditional hard drives offer better value, on a cost-per-gigabyte basis, than SSDs is certainly not surprising. Solid-state drive prices may be falling, but they still have a long way to go. What is surprising is the fact that the highest capacity 2.5" mechanical hard drives on the market are so inexpensive.
Five 2.5-inch 500GB HDDs compared
Posted on Monday, June 08 2009 @ 1:25 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckThe Tech Report has taken a look at at five 2.5" hard drives with a capacity of 500GB from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. The winner of the test is the WD Scorpio Blue 500GB as this drive delivered the best overall performance.
