Intel X25-M SSD available at Amazon

June 27th, 2010

With 2010 being the year of 3D TV, we’ve sort of forgotten about 2009′s favourite toy the Solid State Drive. So we were pleased to see Intal’s latest SSD offering come across our radar and thought we’d share the SSD joy with you all. The last time we took a look at an Intel SSD was back in January with their X25-V SSD range and less than six months later, their latest range, X25-M Mainstream is available. The X25M SSD range comes in three flavours, 40, 80 and 160 GB with the following specifications

* Serial ATA interface
* Data transfer rates up to 3 Gbps
* Sustained Sequential Read: up to 250 MB/s
* Sustained Sequential Write: up to 70 MB/s (80 GB drive) and up to 100 MB/s (160 GB drive)
* 2.5¨ Industry Standard Hard Drive Form Factor
* 1.2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
* Intel® Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory

Needless to say the specs are an improvement on the January models, but what about the prices? Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to have been a lot of movement in this area, with the 40GB model still costing around the same $120 mark as back in January. However if you’re keen to upgrade your old ‘moving part’ drives then click on thru below to get to the Intel SSD X25-M range at Amazon.

40 GB – $118
80 GB – $225
160 GB – $430