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Tourist map of SSD drives

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It would be good to get some sort of standardised score for performance on there too (as a sorting factor). And (in that vein) some PCIE SSDs added to the list.

If not performance, perhaps Amazon star ratings?

I trust arbitrary rating less than raw, testable numbers.

If a certain SSD gets a number of 1-star ratings that's way out of the standard deviation, I think that would be a pretty good sign the drive is a piece of garbage.

Or as often the case with Amazon reviews nobody has a clue what they are talking about

Yeah, but one would have to gather that data manually.

Given all of these drives are popular and benchmarking sites are everywhere, testing everything, it's not hard to find the data... And there aren't that many drives on there.

Even at a minute a drive (and that's slow) you're only looking at a couple of hours to do the entire thing.

If the data is published under a license that allows that. Im not aware of such a site.

This is interesting, but I wouldn't use it to guide buying decisions. Just buy an EVO or MX100; all the second-tier brands are just adding noise: http://www.storagereview.com/it_s_game_over_for_most_consume...

See also PCPartPicker's graphs: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/price-per-...

Cool, I'll probably make use of this later. Would be nice to have maybe a color gradient or alpha layer on the items to signify average review scores on Newegg or whatnot though. I don't buy a drive without reading those.

Amazon does not provide the scores via their api. And they probably don't like it when you scrape them. So no easy fix for this one. But if there is interest in this project, I will look up other options like Newegg.

I was just looking for the flash drive graph from this site yesterday, and could not find it. What a great coincidence! I like the data-centric approach to shopping.

P.S. there should be a graph for ATM machines

Happy to hear you remembered the flash drive map!

ATM Machines? Like this thing?

www.amazon.com/dp/B000UJHCSE/

That was just a lame attempt at a joke.

SSD Drive = Solid-State Drive Drive

ATM Machine = Automated Teller Machine Machine

Mapped the 200 most popular SSD-Drives by size and price today. Some interesting patterns emerged. Im not sure yet if they are artefacts or have some deeper meaning.

very cool way to present price comparison

I find the following to be more effective. http://forre.st/storage#ssd

Yeah plotting price/GB vs price seemed weird to me. Seems like GB vs price (or price vs GB) would make more sense, but price/GB vs GB is also better since you can find the size you're interested in on the x-axis, then look up to find the best value.

This is spectacular! Not only are consumers winners with this, retailer buyers would love it too!!!

Wish there was a find feature to hilite matches. Hard to see where a particular model lives.

Matches? You mean add a text search?

Something like that, so you can find where your current SSD lives.

That's a good idea.

This is awesome. What are the chances you could expand this so that one could use amazon search terms and custom values to change the graph? That is, could it be altered so I can search for "top 50 laptops with at least 4GB of RAM?"

I think that would only be possible when entering the data manually. Amazon does not really have standardized data of product attributes.

Any way you could add filters? e.g.: I want only 1TB drives that are SATA 2.5".

Also performance details (maybe read/write iops?)

The results for amazon.de include one spinning-platter hard disk. Looks like it's miscategorized on their site.

Thanks, thrown that one of the map!

Now I only wish there was an option to filter based on ratings and size of drive.

Any chance you can add amazon.ca to the list? ^^;

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