Intel catered to the rapidly growing budget SSD realm today by launching the X25-V. The 2.5-inch SATA II drive is meant alternately for netbooks and for dual-drive systems where a fast and more reliable OS drive is crucial. The SSD isn't as fast as the M or X series, at 135MB per second reads and 35MB per second writes, but is still about four times faster on average than a 7,200RPM rotating hard disk.
