We now have a bit more information on Intel’s new 34nm NAND SSDs, the X25-M and eventually the X18-M.  The names remain the same but the technology behind it does not, which results in two very nice gifts to the consumer.  The first is a price slash, these brand new drives will be cheaper than the originals by a fairly large margin.  The second is improved performance in certain random writes, which seem to improve the larger the drive is.  Random read speed is unaffected, though latencies are reduced across the board.  Check it out at AnandTech.

“Overall it’s an evolution of the X25-M, and not a revolutionary new design. The focus of the evolution is definitely price. Intel wants the X25-M to be used, not only at the high end, but even in mainstream PCs. At $225 for an 80GB drive, the new X25-M is currently cheaper than most Indilinx based drives on the market.”

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