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By The Inquirer
Feb 6, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tags: ssd | intel

SSD prices go from exorbitant to merely expensive.

Intel has announced it will be slashing the prices on a couple of products from its high-performance SSD line.

The Intel SSD X25-M and X25-E SATA SSDs have been snipped at by Chipzilla to become more affordable to us cash-strapped plebs struggling through the financial crisis.

The X25-M 80GB for notebooks dropped from $595 to just $390 whilst the X25-E 32GB, aimed mainly at enterprise, server, storage, workstations has gone from $US695 to $US415 for quantities up to 1,000.

Newer SSDs, including the X25-M 160GB and the X25-E 64GB have also hit Intel's cutting room floor, but the firm is not saying by exactly how much yet. When the devices shipped in December 2008, the X25-M 160GB was priced at $US765 whilst the X25-E 64GB cost $US795.

 

 

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Fat_Bodybuilder
Feb 6, 2009 9:51 AM
 Well that is a nice cut TBH. But I would still never pay that amount for it.
iamthemaxx
Feb 6, 2009 9:59 AM
 Suhweeeeet

By the middle of the year these things will be in reach.
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Feb 6, 2009 10:06 AM
 These just might be cheap enough for my next build. Yay!

^_^
Truckasauras
Feb 6, 2009 10:55 AM
 I'll be chucking one in my next build, due for late 2009 -early 2010.
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