14 DAY TRIAL // After much fuss about what users can expect from the much talked about upcoming solid state drive from Intel, reports claim to have discovered both the price and the ETA of the Lyndonville.
Intel did not exactly make a secret of the fact that it intends to bring out a new solid state drive series sooner rather than later.
Unfortunately, until recently, just what price the Lyndonville was going to sport, as well as its exact time of arrival, had not been known.
Now, some actual information has arisen, and while the ETA is still not exact, it is still narrow enough for users to know how to plan their next storage product purchases.
According to a report, it is around the middle of the ongoing month (August, 2011) that Intel will unleash the SSD 710 (Lyndonville).
100 GB, 200 GB and 300 GB models are expected, their prices set at $650, $1,250 and $1,900, respectively.
This means that, all in all, the SSD 710 has a per-gigabyte cost about 50% smaller than that of the Intel X25-E.
Intel chose to use eMLC HET NAND Flash memory chips, aiming to bring SLC (single-level cell)-level endurance to consumers at a more reasonable price than real SLC would demand.
Of course, the aforementioned prices are not exactly accessible to the bulk of the consumer market even under these conditions but, then again, high-speed SSDs are expensive by default.
Until such a time as the Santa Clara, California-based company decides it is right to officially launch the product line, prospective buyers can take a look at other SSDs recently released.
Apacer, for once, provided some models that stick to the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, while Team Group released not one, but two lines of high-speed, SATA 6.0 Gbps-enabled SSDs, powered by SandForce controllers.