Worth or not worth investing in laptops with electronic drives? This is an interesting question, which has many users, both personal and corporate. Jack Gold (Jack Gold), an independent analyst, said that he found the answer to it, holding its own study that showed that companies, who buy their employees laptops with SSD-disks, save money in the long run, despite the high initial purchase prices.

Digital Storage entered into vogue about a year ago. Customers, especially the various companies, weighed the pros and cons of being in two minds about these devices, which, on the one hand, it is very expensive, on the other hand, according to producers, more reliable and more productive as compared to conventional hard drives. Whether the benefits of such high prices? Gold thoroughly researched this issue, analyzed the data from many different sources, and published an article called "Digital Storage in the business laptops: waste or profit?" (Solid State Drives in Business Notebooks: Cost Benefit or Cost Burden?)

According to the data, overpaid $ 200 for the model with the SSD-drive turned into $ 214 savings in the operation of a laptop purchased within three years or $ 493 when working on it for five years. As a result, according to the report, "the cost of SSD has a profitability of 107% over a three-year life cycle and 247% over the five-year life cycle." The report argues that the analyst takes into account the "true costs associated with the failure of business notebooks, including the difference frequency of failures over the lifetime of work, the cost of repairs during the warranty period and beyond, the speed of IT-processing tasks and other activities the impact on end-user, etc. " Furthermore, Gold notes that the cost of repairing a laptop with HDD on guarantees an average of $ 970, while repairs to the SSD model is an average of about $ 715, a failure rate of notebooks to electronic storage by about a third less than similar laptops with hard discs due to the high reliability of SSD.