We already reported that the appearance of solid-state disks on base of 34 nm MLC memory will allow not only to release the model with 320 Gb volume, but also to reduce prices of existing models.
Yesterday Intel company officially presented new version series X25- M with 80 Gb and 160 Gb volume, the based on 34 nm memories. Earlier for the production of solid-state disk Intel company used 50 nm memory. If a year ago X25- M device with 80 Gb volume cost $595, then now it cost $225. 160 Gb SSD from $945 to $440.
In practice price reduction was not such sharp, since Intel regularly reduced prices on SSD from the moment of their announcement in the past year. The average data transmission speeds remained as before: 250 Mb/s on reading operations and 70 Mb/s on writing operations . The data transmission speed on arbitrary reading operations and writing also grew. In this block Intel will also present the 1.8" SSD , based on 34 nm memories.