The Intel-m series are priced at about $4/GB so $3.42 is a pleasant drop if we're going to be guaranteed similar performance to the SSD that's been outperforming everything else on the market.

I don't yet but I am looking forward to add a Vertex in my ASUS G71G-Q2 !

I can't see the justification in price....gaming doesn't require anything faster that a velociraptor and the price/size differences aren't making ssd's very attractive yet.

JMicron controllers are bad, mmmkay?

I hope that all companies will endeavor to bring us affordable SSDs.

Good, that really should be the manufacturer's focus. They've all been so focused on speed and efficiency for selling points, but they can't completely eclipse a really great HDD without astronomical prices.

Meanwhile many of us laptop owners would be happy with a relatively slow but shock-proof and silent SSD that's neither unaffordable nor incapacious.

Work paid $350cdn for my intel x25-m for my workstation, absolutely love it

I got a great deal on a 60GB OCZ Vertex for $170. I'm pretty pleased with it.

Soon... Soon an SSD will be mine! Next build, I'm pumped!

Man, if I can get a 250GB SSD for $150 then I'll jump straight to it.

I guess I gotta give the industry a few more years eh..

The decimal point has to move one position to the left before we can call SSDs affordable. $0.34 per GB should do it. Give it a few more years.

I have not bought a SSD yet.
I still run a 80GB SATA and a 250GB SATAtogether... I'd be running another 80GB IDE and a 40GB IDE if my mobo supported IDE cleanly.

I do plan to buy a SDD eventually. At the price of raptors, why the hell wouldn't I buy a SSD? An exponential increase over a raptor, while the raptor isn't an exponential increase over a 7200rpm.

I believe that even though magnetic sorage is a wonderful proven technology, we will reach its limits much sooner.

now we need china to enter the fray and bring prices down to 34.2 cents/GB. come on commies!

Reviews I read show that the OCZ Vertex series beat the OCZ Summit series even though that was intended by OCZ

If I plan on running my OS from it, it needs to be at least 32GB, and cost no more than $80. For 64GB I'm willing to pay $140. And for 128GB I'm willing to pay $256. 256GB should be priced no higher than $499 streetprice. I think these are more fair numbers to make a switch, only if following requirements are met:
- The IO ops are (much) faster than a regular HD, meaning it needs to random read & write small files faster than on a HD;
- The power consumption must be lower than a regular laptop HD.

Those are the only requirements to live with a tradeoff of higher price, lower diskspace.

At $2/GB I'd consider an SSD affordable for me, as I don't see anything below 60GB to be a viable option.

Considering my OS drive uses 45GB of space right now (and i'm running XP). Vista wouldn't even work for me unless I had a minimum of 60GB available.

I would only consider SSD for special applications, such as notebooks and ultra-quiet systems. Laptops need it because even 7200 RPM drives are just too slow to be useful for quick use, not to mention they are much less rugged.

I have a G.Skill generation 1 drive. It is fine for program launch, but not for heavy use. I have a OCZ Vertex for my main tablet PC. It is great. Startup time is now reasonable, and I can take notes quickly, while conserving battery life (with fast sleep/wakup).

I have a 30 GB Vertex SSD that I paid about $100. Makes my raptor HD seem slow. Put my XP O/S on it and a few applications, currently occupying about 7 GB. Paired with a large capacity mechanical HD, it makes a great storage system. As far as I'm concerned, its the best upgrade you can add to your computer this year.

only ssd is the one in my 701 eee. not in a rush for ssd in my desktop. rather disappointed that netbooks are no longer shipped with ssd.

I bought a 30gb Vertex for myself and worked out a deal with a customer that got me another one for an hr's worth of work.. These drives in raid0 kill.