Price Comparisons

Cost per Gigabyte

When compared to normal hard drives, flash drives are just not competitive in the pirce per gigabyte area. However, your flash drive can take abuses that would leave in the sturdiest platter based hard drive dead. Fortunately, the ATV line is very reasonably priced especially when compared to its faster sibling the ATV Turbo.



As you can see the ATV is actually a better deal than the 4GB ATV Turbo, but when you consider that the Corsair GT is the same price it is difficult to recommend it instead of the faster Corsair GT. Of course, as with everything in life, there is more than simply economics to be considered when choosing a flash drive.


Cost to Performance Ratio

This ATV has a fast read speed of 29.6 MB/sec which is very close to the Turbo’s 32.9 MB/sec. With a retail cost of only $39.99 this drive has a very good cost to performance ratio when it comes to read speed.

Please note:Since the OCZ ATV Turbo was the only 4GB model its price was halved to be more in line with the 2GB models.



Once again the Corsair GT is a better value than the ATV but as the chart shows, the OCZ ATV still represents pretty good value for your money.