Under $0.40 per GB? Heck yeah! At prices like that everyone that owns a computer and is concerned about performance should finally be able to afford an SSD and the features and reliability on the SSDs being released now is better than ever before. Some drives in that series cost less than $0.40 per GB without rebates or discounts. Earlier this week we had a review up on the SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD that uses TLC NAND Flash.

We’ll jump in that argument every chance we get as we feel that SSDs have hit the mainstream market and that the prices are amazing right now. We hear people say every day that SSDs are too expensive and that they aren’t mainstream storage devices yet. What does this have to do about the Transcend SSD370 128GB drive that we are reviewing today? It just goes to show where we have come from and where we have ended up today in regards to SSD pricing. The drives worked flawlessly in our server for nearly three years and today people are still buying and selling them six years later used for $40 a drive (over $1 per GB!). At that point in time those SLC NAND Flash drives were $719 each, which broke down to being $22.47 per gigabyte. Back in 2008 Legit Reviews spent nearly $3,600 to purchase five Intel X25-E 32GB SSD’s for the server that was running the site. Solid-State Drives were expensive when they were first introduced to the consumer market.

Transcend SSD370 128GB SSD – The Budget Friendly $69 Economy SSD

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