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September 9th, 2008, 08:57 AM
http://www.physorg.com/news140100055.html

-{ Quote: "Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers.
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"By combining our experience in flash memory design with our processor and computing expertise, we have added advances such as our parallel 10-channel architecture, proprietary controller, firmware and memory management algorithms that address write amplification and wear leveling issues to redefine SSD performance and reliability for computing platforms."
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The Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs are available in 80 gigabyte (GB) capacities, with 160GB versions sampling in the fourth quarter of this year. The 80GB drive achieves up to 250MB per second read speeds, up to 70MB per second write speeds and 85-microsecond read latency for fast performance. The 80GB version is priced at $595 for quantities up to 1,000. " }-

A little expensive for me at the moment. I also would like to see some benchmarking and actual usage reviews.

lodore
September 9th, 2008, 09:49 AM
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A little expensive for me at the moment. I also would like to see some benchmarking and actual usage reviews." }-
well if anyone can ship out cheap SSD's to the masses intel can.
hopefully this will prompt a SSD price war between all the main players.
80gb or 160gb would be fine as my boot drive.