Value The term “Value” is such an amorphous term that it truly has different meanings for different people. For some a hard drive is only as good as its performance potential, for others it is how quiet or durable it is; for others still it’s how effective it is for its cost. We here at HWC try to provide as many answers as possible for the term “Value”. Hopefully by this point in the review people looking at performance potential will have a fairly good idea of what its Value is. For the “best bang for the buck” crowd we have included a chart below showing how much a give drive costs per GB . No consideration has been made for performance, “durability” or any other extraneous factors; this is just raw performance vs. monetary cost. All prices are based on the lowest price found in our Price Comparison engine at the time of this review. 
For an SSD, the Pelican is certainly not a bad value; in fact its one of the best Values we have seen. This was to be expected as it does use older (and slower) components but considering the inclusion of the USB connector, value has certainly been added. It may not be able to compete with HDDs but then again it does offer a lot of features they can't. Good value or not, we still don't recommend the Pelican as a first time internal SSD as it may cause you to have an overly poor opinion of this newer tech. Conversely, if you are a road warrior who is frugal with your money this may just be the external storage solution for you.
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