Improvements in HDD and SSD technology have allowed users to continuously increase their desktop storage and performance.
While hard drives offer good storage capacity at a relatively low price, users who want faster speeds tend to opt for solid state drives.
Solid state drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory as storage, offering reduced capacity but much faster speeds than conventional disk drives.
SSDs are more expensive than HDDs, though, so the substantial increase in performance comes at a price.
SSDs also come in multiple form factors due to the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA ports, which affect high-end SSD performance.
Below is an overview of the prices of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB storage drives – both HDD and SSD – from local online stores.
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500GB Storage Drives
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| Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 500GB | R842 | R819 | R783 |
| Western Digital Blue 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 500GB | R842 | – | R791 |
| Seagate Barracuda 2.5-inch 5,400RPM 500GB | – | R799 | R725 |
| Western Digital Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch 5,400RPM 500GB | – | – | R780 |
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| Samsung 750 Evo 500GB 2.5-inch SATA6G | R2,379 | R2,299 | R2,418 |
| Samsung 960 Evo M.2 NVMe 500GB | R3,988 | – | R3,990 |
| Samsung 960 Pro M.2 NVMe 512GB | R5,243 | – | R5,321 |
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1TB Storage Drives
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| Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 1TB | R900 | R839 | R832 |
| Western Digital Caviar Blue 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 1TB | R879 | – | R842 |
| Western Digital Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch 5,400RPM 1TB | R1,145 | R1,456 | R1,087 |
| Western Digital Black 2.5-inch 7,200RPM 1TB | – | – | R1,132 |
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| Adata Ultimate SU800 2.5-inch SATA6G 1TB | – | – | R5,563 |
| Intel Pro 600P M.2 NVMe 1TB | R6,677 | – | R6,671 |
| Samsung 850 Pro 2.5-inch SATA6G 1TB | R7,599 | R8,149 | R7,522 |
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2TB Storage Drives
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| Western Digital Caviar Blue 3.5-inch 5,400RPM 2TB | R1,248 | – | R1,172 |
| Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 2TB | R1,279 | R1,179 | R1,245 |
| Seagate NAS 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 2TB | R1,447 | R1,700 | R1,474 |
| Western Digital Scorpio Green 2.5-inch 5,400RPM 2TB | R2,699 | R3,301 | R2,660 |
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| Samsung 850 Evo 2.5-inch SATA6G 2TB | R11,194 | R12,199 | R11,199 |
| Intel DC P3520 PCIe NVMe 2TB | – | – | R18,766 |
| Samsung 960 Pro M.2 NVMe 2TB | R20,135 | – | R20,440 |
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4TB Storage Drives
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| Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch 5,900RPM 4TB | R2,221 | R2,299 | R2,200 |
| Western Digital Caviar Blue 3.5-inch 5,400RPM 4TB | R2,358 | – | R2,425 |
| Western Digital Red Pro 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 4TB | – | – | R2,461 |
| Seagate Enterprise NAS 3.5-inch 7,200RPM 4TB | – | R3,700 | |
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| Samsung 850 Evo 2.5-inch SATA6G 4TB | – | – | R23,792 |
This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
