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 average of the three lowest prices found online via Froogle. If less then three price options were available they were based on the average of those that were. Please note all prices are now in USD and not Canadian. 
Since this drive is only slightly more expensive than the competition yet packs in an extra 20% of space it is actually a pretty decent value. However, it is important to remember that the Mercury also costs almost $400 and really doesn’t outperform any of the competition. Unless a drive sports a customized NAND selection like the G.Skill Phoenix or the Vertex 2’s adrenalin-injected firmware, it better be cheaper then $360 for 120GB of space. However, if you are going for capacity over performance, this may actually prove to be quite good value for your money.
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