marco:

This is the tipping point for SSDs to become mainstream.

Currently, good SSDs (the bad, cheaper ones generally aren’t worth buying) are small and expensive. Intel’s excellent X25-M series, the gold standard, is about $450 for 160 GB.

SSDs based on this 25nm flash are likely to offer 160 GB in the $200 range and 320 GB in the $500 range.

I’m really excited by this, too. Solid-state drives are the next step in new computing performance heights.