#ssd vs hdd price

But for the most part, if you wanna keep a large number of files for local storage then you’d most likely look into either Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Drives (SSDs). To put it simply, you will be getting much faster speeds when it comes to loading or transferring files with an SSD while HDDs are much slower but are rather cheaper. In general, most SATA HDDs will have read and write speeds of around 100 to 150 MB/s while SSDs can manage much more. Below is a list of a few SSDs and HDDs available in the Philippines along with our conclusion on which you should get. [table id=1940 /] [table id=1941 /] [table id=1942 /] On average HDDs have an average price of about PHP 2/GB of storage, while SATA SSDs average roughly PHP 4.7/GB of storage, and PCIe NVMe SSDs average about PHP 5.4/GB of storage. [caption id="attachment_328461" align="alignnone" width="720"] PCIe NVMe SSD (Left), SATA HDD (Right)[/caption] Cause it may very well be worth spending a little extra to get the much faster speeds of SSDs. Most especially that a few years ago SSDs used to be way more expensive than HDDs. But now in 2023, we can clearly see that gap has narrowed a lot with even some SSDs being priced below PHP 3,000, meaning you'd only have to spend a few hundred pesos extra to get much faster speeds, which is a trade-off that we think is worthwhile the investment. Read more in our articles including "SSD vs HDD Price Comparison in 2023" and "Replacing the Acer Aspire S3's 7mm Hitachi HDD".