Intel drops 2.5" SSD pricing, ups 1.8" production
updated 05:35 pm EDT, Tue April 28, 2009
Intel drops 2.5" SSD price
Intel will soon lower prices of its X25-M series of 2.5-inch solid state drives and boost production of its 1.8-inch SSDs, according to a Tuesday DailyTech report. The 160GB X25-M, which uses mulit-level cell flash memory, is now priced at $630 after launching for $945 last December, and is due to get another $100 price cut soon, while the 80GB version of that drive will fall to $270, down $50. Street prices are even lower, as retailers try to make the Intel drives appealing compared to OCZ's Vertex SSDs.
At the same time, the world's largest semiconductor company will also address the limited availability of its 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch X18-M series SSDs for netbooks and small notebooks by upping production.
For the enterprise server market, which Super Talent attacked first with its UltraDrive SSDs, soon to be followed by OCZ's Vertex EX SSDs, Intel will be bringing out a 128GB SLC drive and a 320GB MLC SSD, with release dates expected to come in the latter half of 2009.











yah
04/28, 05:56pm reply
whats the source, when is 'soon' where can I buy one?
Jonathan-Tanya
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yah
04/28, 05:59pm reply
the computerworld article noted a $50 price drop but that was from $370 to $320.
So you are looking at todays price of $320, and then saying its going to drop to $270....great bit of math, wrong starting price.
Jonathan-Tanya
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Are you using a Mac
04/28, 06:13pm reply
Because you can't type mulit-level on a Mac without the Mac underlining it in red.
MyRightEye
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multi-level
04/29, 09:40am reply
So, are you mentioning that multi-level should be written differently, or that the mac's built-in spell checker doesn't know the word multi-level?
testudo
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intel to ship more SSDs
04/29, 10:05pm reply
not only that, they're doing it AT THE SAME TIME! WHOA!!!!
"At the same time, the world's largest semiconductor company will also address the limited availability of its 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch X18-M series SSDs for netbooks and small notebooks by upping production."
ggirton
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