For economical reason, the SSD market has mostly be using MLC chips as it offers twice the density of SLC (see our article about SSD). Nevertheless, SLC chips are faster and offer longer lifetime: 10x more than MLC. Of course, they are more expensive and most SSD manufacturers have made the MLC choice. We can find SLC-based SSD in shops, as the 32 GB Intel X25-E, but at 400 €
Things might change with a SSD model just released in Japan:
The SLC-based SSD offers 64 GB of storage space and sports an Indilix controller delivering data transfer speed of 250 MB/S in reading and 190 MB/S in writing modes. Its price should be around 270 €, a quite aggressive and competitive model. It could well push Intel to change its strategy and offer more SLC-based SSD models at more affordable price, espec
