Intel Cuts the Prices on Some of its High-Performance Solid-State Drives

Thursday, February 5 2009

The Inquirer reports that Intel has just announced it will be slashing the prices on most of its state of the art solid-state drives. The Intel X25-M 80GB for notebooks will drop from $595 to $390 whilst the server X25-E 32GB SSD will go from $695 all the way down to $415 for quantities up to 1,000. The story continues to claim that Intel's X25-M 160GB and X25-E 64GB drives will also have their prices down, but Intel is not saying by exactly how much yet.

Source: The Inquirer

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User comments

by Mega-Japan (February 5th - 9:39 PM) - Reply

Down $200 bucks? Thank you! We'll finally start seeing reasonable prices on these...

by Jizzler (February 5th - 9:48 PM) - Reply

Not bad. Savings are huge considering few servers would have one drive. Even if you only had four of them, you just saved over $1000 vs someone who bought them yesterday.

by spearman914 (February 5th - 9:49 PM) - Reply

That's a nice drop!! It will be great if it happened with graphics cards!!! Seeing a 4870x2 at $200....

by lemonadesoda (February 5th - 10:37 PM) - Reply

WOW. Now we are talking!

And the first time "slash" really means slash!

OK, it's time for TPU to start benchmarking the Intel SSDs! I'm up for one.

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http://hothardware.com/Articles/Intel-X25M-80GB-SATA-Solid-State-Drive-Intel-Ups-The-Ante/?page=1
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433

by 1c3d0g (February 5th - 11:48 PM) - Reply

Man...time to buy me some Intel SSD's!

by mechtech (February 5th - 11:58 PM) - Reply

nice starting to come into the affordable range

"server X25-E 32GB SSD will go from $695 all the way down to $415 for quantities up to 1,000"

I suppose thats US $ damn cnd dollar dropped with crude prices :(

expensive 32 gigs, good for OS though, I wonder if that model has a 5 yr warranty???

by Haytch (February 6th - 7:13 PM) - Reply

by: lemonadesoda
OK, it's time for TPU to start benchmarking the Intel SSDs! I'm up for one.

I think i will await another price drop. These new prices are relatively great, but just a little too high for the intended purpose i have for these little beasts.

I would appreciate some hardcore benchmarks and reviews of their entire lineup to help guide me in future . . . . As TPU always seems to do :)

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