As expected, Intel started to ship the new version of its flagship SSD, the X25-M. this new model features 160 GB storage space.
As we recently demonstrated in a recent test of the 80 GB X25-M SSD in a MacBook Pro, Intel currently owns the crone for the fastest SSD available on the customer electronic market. However, such SSD are not cheap and their extremely high performance level has a cost. The 80 GB model is currently available at 650 , and the 160 GB model should be rather expensive too even if the official price remain unknown.
One will have to wait H1 2009 to see prices of SSD to significantly decrease, and most likely some years for those products to become available to the main users.
[translation by Linathael]
