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. 
If there is one weakness this drive has it has to be its cost per GB. Let’s face it, the Agility EX stinks as a “value oriented” drive. It may be less expensive than the Vertex EX….but that is not saying much as that drive is down right expensive by anyone's standards. However, we have to remember that you are paying for performance here, not value. Is giving up half your storage space worth the additional performance? We think it is, as this drive will not only last a heck of a lot longer than any MLC SSD, it will spank most other drives in the speed department too. To get access to all this speed, you have to be willing to pay the entry cost.
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