Updated: Top 10 Best SSDs of 2016 in the UK

By Desire Athow

Introduction

Size does matter. And when it comes to SSDs, size costs too. At least, it did. Back in 2008, Intel launched its first solid state drive aimed at mere punters rather than enterprise customers. You forked out £400 and you received 80GB in return.

Yeah, just 80GB, that’s equates to around £5000 per terabyte. Fast forward to 2016 and you’d pay almost 25x less, which represents a nice 3x improvement every year.

Okay, conventional hard disks were also pricier per gigabyte in 2008, but it was still roughly a case of swapping the ‘GB’ and ‘£’ symbols around. Less than £80 bought you more than 400GB of spinning magnetic platters even then.

So size has definitely been a source of insecurity for SSDs. Sure, you can combine a tiny SSD with a fat old magnetic drive and theoretically have the best of both worlds: speed and performance (that’s what hybrid drives are for).

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  Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components