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Tourist map of SSD drives
- no_gravity 12y agoMapped 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.
- notastartup 12y agovery cool way to present price comparison
- ivraatiems 12y agoThis 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?"
- no_gravity 12y agoI think that would only be possible when entering the data manually. Amazon does not really have standardized data of product attributes.
- devindotcom 12y agoCool, 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.
- no_gravity 12y agoAmazon 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.
- oliwarner 12y agoIt 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.
- joezydeco 12y agoIf not performance, perhaps Amazon star ratings?
- alsetmusic 12y agoI trust arbitrary rating less than raw, testable numbers.
- no_gravity 12y agoYeah, but one would have to gather that data manually.
- oliwarner 12y agoGiven 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.
- coldcode 12y agoWish there was a find feature to hilite matches. Hard to see where a particular model lives.
- no_gravity 12y agoMatches? You mean add a text search?
- coldcode 12y agoSomething like that, so you can find where your current SSD lives.
- no_gravity 12y agoThat's a good idea.
- STRiDEX 12y agoI find the following to be more effective. http://forre.st/storage#ssd http://forre.st/storage#ssd
- shawkinaw 12y agoYeah 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.
- duskwuff 12y agoThe results for amazon.de include one spinning-platter hard disk. Looks like it's miscategorized on their site.
- no_gravity 12y agoThanks, thrown that one of the map!
- oftenwrong 12y agoI 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
- no_gravity 12y agoHappy to hear you remembered the flash drive map! ATM Machines? Like this thing? www.amazon.com/dp/B000UJHCSE/
- oftenwrong 12y agoThat was just a lame attempt at a joke. SSD Drive = Solid-State Drive Drive ATM Machine = Automated Teller Machine Machine
- graytek 12y agoThis is spectacular! Not only are consumers winners with this, retailer buyers would love it too!!!
- wtallis 12y agoSee also PCPartPicker's graphs: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/price-per-gb-vs-capacity/# http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/price-per-...
- r00fus 12y agoAny way you could add filters? e.g.: I want only 1TB drives that are SATA 2.5". Also performance details (maybe read/write iops?)
- wmf 12y agoThis 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_consumer_ssd_companies http://www.storagereview.com/it_s_game_over_for_most_consume...
- monksy 12y agoNow I only wish there was an option to filter based on ratings and size of drive.
- jabsters 12y agoAny chance you can add amazon.ca to the list? ^^;