The new Intel’s 25-M G2 SSD, code named Postville, may arrive by the end of this July. The 320GB X25-M G2 drives will be built on the 34nm NAND flash . Rumor has it that the X25-M G2 SSD will be faster and cheaper; you don’t see that go hand and hand much anymore these days. Intel will offer three different capacities: 80GB, 160GB and 320GB. The write speed of these drives will be around 90MB/s with AES 128-bit encryption, advanced NVQ features, status aggregration, and 32MB buffer to ease of the reading time.
As for pricing of the starter model – 80GB, it will be somewhere in the $270 range according to the net. There is the server version that will be offered also, and it will be faster than the consumer version. The prices of SSD are starting to creep down, and we would like to see in the near future that it would be near the conventional hard drive prices; 80GB for $270 is still very expensive in this economy.
