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 their initial review. 
There is now denying it, this is NOT a cheap 7200rpm drive. If you consider value to equal price per GB, there are much better alternatives out there. This is perfectly reasonable if all you want is a data storage device and performance is really not an issue. However, if you take into consideration that this drive not only out performs a VelociRaptor but offers MUCH more storage space while doing it….things become topsy-turvy. Heck, this drive can be considered a downright bargain when you look at performance + space vs. price. It really does depend on what you are looking for in a hard drive and we can only say that this drive is impressive in many ways, but like most high performance machines: increased performance comes with an increased price tag.
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