PC Stats posted a review on the SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD SDSSDX-240G-G25
I've held off jumping on the SSD bandwagon for the longest time; partially because Solid State Drives were astronomically expensive until quite recently and in part because SSD storage capacities were too small for the applications I typically load onto C:\. The PCSTATS test system has relied on SSDs for a couple years now, though. SSDs are much quicker to install an OS onto and boost system performance very nicely, improve boot and application load times, etc.SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD SDSSDX-240G-G25 Review
In the latter half of 2012 the cost of a 240GB SSD - a size well suited to desktop PCs - finally fell to earth. Since this Hallmark moment happened, I've put together a few PCs with the OS and programs installed to SSD, with critical data safely backed up to a RAID 1 array of Western Digital RE4 mechanical HDDs. From this point on, I don't think I'll ever install another operating system to a mechanical hard drive... the era of solid state drives has indeed arrived.
In this review, PCSTATS is testing out SanDisk's Extreme 240GB SSD, a 6Gb/s SATA III drive rated to 550MB/s Read and 520MB/s Write (sequential) in ATTO Disk Benchmark. SanDisk's Extreme SSD uses 24nm Toggle Mode MLC NAND Flash and the popular LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller. The 2.5" SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD retails just over $220 USD/CDN at stores like NCIX.com , other models are available in 120GB and 480GB capacities. At this cost, the 240GB SDSSDX-240G-G25 comes in just under the $1 per Gigabyte price point, or $0.91/GB to be exact. By comparison, a 2TB Western Digital RE4 hard drive costs around $0.12/GB.
