Details of Intel's Next Round of SSDs Leak Out
Ready for a hybrid system?
Intel may have another new series of SSD up its sleeve that it hasn't told anyone but its OEM partners about. Thankfully, one of its OEM partners – in this case Asrock – has leaked out word of a "Larsen Creek" SSD series thanks to Asrock's showing of its Z68 motherboard.
The documentation speaks of Intel's Smart Response Technology that uses an SSD as a high-speed cache for an HDD. Seagate has explored this sort of hybrid technology in a single device, but soon this cache could hit 20GB with the Intel Smart Response Technology. The slide showing this tech has seen been taken down from Asrock's servers, but still survives in this Engadget posting.
Also on Engadget is a leaked slide showing that Intel also has plans for SSD models 710 "Lyndonville" 3Gb/s and 720 "Ramsdale" 6GB/s for the enterprise market, and even later 520 "Cherryville" 6GB/s to replace the 510. Also later this year will be another 300-series SSD that'll come in mSATA form factor in 40GB and 80GB capacities.

And they used to sell intel SSDDs.
Yeah, when they cost an arm and a leg, they ought to be!
Already out there.
Says who? Tech prices generally come down over time, but that can be counteracted when demand is increasing much faster than production levels, which is probably the case right now.
Buy a new keyboard. Your Shift and '.' keys are broken.
Yes apparently the demand is keeping the prices up, which is what I said earlier when I said that prices were not coming down. I know that generally prices do come down and they have been steadily coming down on mechanical hard drives, but SSD's have been much slower.
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What?... idiot.
http://www.newegg.com
Really? What's so cool about them? If overpriced for what there worth is cool, then yes they are VERY cool. I'd take a 7200rpm large capacity RAID setup anyday over these.
SSDs will remain high/over $1 / GB for the next two years at the very least. Also prices have actually recently increased, and not decreased. If you want deals, shop for Vertex2 drives, as they are now discontinued. Vertex 3 is around the corner. you can find 120GB vertex2 for apprix $1/GB . Otherwise lower SSD Prices will destroy the mechanical HDD market.