AppleInsider Videos On HDD VS SSD

AppleInsider | MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video) -

Solid state drives are expensive, but costs are coming down. Of course, there’s still a long way for their price tags to go. A 1.8″ 64 GB SSD costs around $1600 at retail and 128GB versions are $3000 and up. The only thing that will force these prices down is the economies of scale from widespread adoption. A number of specialized ultra mobile laptops began offering an SSD option over the last six months, but Apple’s more mainstream offering in the MacBook Air presents high capacity SSDs to a wide new audience.

AppleInsider has written a thorough report on if the MacBook Air SSD option is worth the $1000 USD Apple charge for the upgrade. There are three videos on the article page, each comparing the HDD to the SSD in disk intensive tasks.

The SSD looks to be the ideal choice, if you’re willing to pay a price premium as an early adopter.

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  1. #1

    Justin

    I would love to see a SSD model at my house.

    My big problem:
    I am going to buy it, then the SSD price is going to drop a ton.

    Why do I think this?
    The iPhone(the first of its kind for apple too) dropped $200 on its’ initial drop. There is no reason to complain about this because this is the risk you take when buying a first generation of anything.

    Well the macbook air is the first generation. I will not be happy about losing a ton of money, plus I don’t need an SSD at the moment.

  2. #2

    Michael Mistretta → michaelmistretta.com

    I can’t wait for the 128GB SSD chips to come down in price. That in a MacBook Air for sub-$2000 would be very sweet.

  3. #3

    jamie cox

    what is the difference between SSD and HDD

  4. #4

    Michael Mistretta → michaelmistretta.com

    HDD = a moving hard disk drive

    SSD = a solid state disk made of flash memory

    The SSD is much faster than the HDD, while also more expensive because it is newer technology. It generally increases battery life slightly, as well as application launch and boot times. However, it is very expensive, but prices are dropping rapidly.

  5. #5

    Jack Archer → www.jack-archer.com

    Can’t wait until SSD becomes the standard

  6. #6

    Bryan Muller → www.bryanmnuller.com

    Once SSD drives are available in 500 (or most likely 512) gigabytes, I’ll be buying quite a few of them….regardless of the price.

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