What’s the best SSD for less than $150? Techspot publishes budget SSD roundup.

A year ago, Techspot.com tested and reviewed SSDs and the least expensive drive it worked with at the time cost $270. This year, Techspot has limited its testing to SSDs costing $150 or less. What a difference a year has made. These drives aren’t big--in the 32- to 40-Gbyte capacity range. The competitors tested include the 40-Gbyte OCZ Agility 2 ($135), the 40-Gbyte OCZ Vertex 2 ($124), the 64-Gbyte OCZ Onyx ($130), the 32-Gbyte OCZ Onyx ($85), the 32-Gbyte ADATA S596 Turbo ($83), the 40-Gbyte Intel X25-V ($100), and the 64-Gbyte Kingston SNV425-S2 ($125). In addition to these “low-cost” SSDs, Techspot tested Seagate’s 500-Gbyte Momentus XT hybrid SSD/HDD ($135). As you can see, at the low end there’s a roughly 10x cost/Gbyte difference between SSDs and HDDs at the retail level, even for Seagate’s hybrid drive.

Techspot points out that an end user might want to use one of these drives to boot an OS or an application set to speed work flow. So how did all of these drives fare? See the full Techspot article: http://j.mp/9VQQqP