Last month, Intel tossed its hat into the ring that is solid-state
with the announcement of a series of flash drives. The company
unveiled that it would start with 80 and 160 GB MLC drives and 32 and
64 GB SLC drives before following up with larger designs in 2009.
Today Intel released price points and a few other details for its
Intel Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive, or X25-M. The 80GB drive uses
NAND flash technology and will available this week for $595. According
to this CNET News article, that works out to about $7.43 per gigabyte.
Most other drives cost around $3.50 per gigabyte.
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