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The OCZ Agility 4 is clearly the best value at roughly $0.08 cents per gigabyte . Corsair's Force GT 60GB runs about $1.31 more. Even though the mechanical SATA drives are overall less expensive and offer more storage, by the time you factor in the loss in performance there is no comparison.
For this test we use custom files to measure the time it takes to copy 100MB, 500MB and 1000MB between partitions.
It was a tie between OCZ's Agility 4 256GB and Corsair's Force GT 60GB for first place in the file copy portion of testing.
This next test measures the time it takes from the moment the Windows loading screen appears until the desktop becomes available.
Windows 7 boot time on the Force GT barely edged out the Agility 4.
For second part of the test, we measured the amount of time between the moment the OS' shutdown button is clicked until the computer fully powers off.
Once again the Agility 4 overcomes the competition by six seconds.
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Regardless, in recent years SSDs have been doing better than HDDs in every category except cost per GB, longevity, and total capacity, having resolved poor write times some time ago. Now it seems a matter of finding a cost-effective way of getting high capacities out of these without compromising endurance and making it so it costs even less per GB and it would be a viable alternative to HDDs for everyone.
That is, assuming they've also solved that issue with SSDs not doing so well after 10's of thousands of rewrites? I guess HDDs still have the edge there too?
If so, there is always the next generation of storage. I don't remember the details, but I know they're working on it.