Inexpensive often means cheap
But caution is advised: the cheapest models are of course not the best and by no means the fastest. The current blockbusters Patriot P210 and Kingston NV2 showed their weaknesses in the test. Above all, one thing is unsightly: the customer buys a pig in a poke, because both manufacturers reserve the right to make changes to the components used at any time, which are therefore not mentioned in the data sheet and are therefore not specified.
In the case of the Kingston NV2, for example, this can mean that the slower and less durable QLC-NAND is used instead of TLC memory. According to a survey by ComputerBase, the variants with QLC are much less common in retail. Nevertheless, you have to reckon with extremely low write rates after the SLC cache.
HDDs remain cheaper
Nevertheless, the purely electronic SSDs remain far more expensive than the mechanical magnetic storage hard drives (HDDs). Despite prices of less than 2 cents per gigabyte or 20 euros per terabyte, these no longer play a role in the consumer segment because, compared to SSDs, they slow down the system noticeably and also work loudly and require more space. These factors play a subordinate role in NAS systems or storage servers (cloud). Due to the significantly lower costs per storage volume, HDDs are far from indispensable here.
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