By Matt Hanson
Usually when you want to take advantage of the speeds that solid state drives provide you have to make a compromise when it comes to storage space, as SSDs usually come in smaller capacities than regular hard drives.
Thankfully there are an increasing number of high capacity SSDs being released, such as the Crucial MX300, which we review here. This drive is available in 525GB, 750GB, 1050GB and 2TB capacities (we’ve got the 1050GB version in for review), which means if you want a fast SSD to act not only as a boot drive for your operating system, but also to store your files and folders, you can have the best of both worlds.
Price is still an issue when you go for large capacity SSDs, with the price per GB being a lot higher than standard hard drives. However, prices of SSDs are dropping, though there are occasional NAND shortages that can up the prices, and hopefully we’ll continue to see price drops in the future. At £229 ($249, around AU$390), this isn’t too high of a price for 1TB of SSD storage compared to its competitors, though it’s still a high price tag compared to traditional hard drives of that …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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