Will the intel mainstream ssd drives be cheaper by the end of this year.

Hello, guys! I want to know if its safe to assume that by the end of this year, a significant price drop on the intel mainstream ssd.

As you can see, tons of resellers in ebay are selling these intel drives. If ever I will be able to get one, it will be surely be my first time to have an ssd drive. Probably I'll save for the 80 or 160 gb mainstream. One more thing, I found out that there is also a 40gb value ssd version, but assuming that my acer aspire 5520G has only sata I will there be a difference between the x-25 M and x-25 V (since the x-25-m has higher read/write speed.)

Lastly, what average read/write speeds should I expect from these ssd drives if they are used on sata 1 (like how much degradation from original read/write speeds?)

 

*glancing into my crystal ball* definitely maybe.

You can't predict markets very well... if you could, you could make a killing in the stock market It's likely that the price/GB will keep trending down, but as far as an actual timeline, that's pretty much impossible to determine without having insider information at Intel.

As for speeds, you should still get the quoted speeds for the most part, theoretically up to 143MiB/s. I wouldn't spend more on a drive that quotes speeds faster than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_Revision_1.0_.28SATA_1.5Gb.2Fs.29

 

Thanks for the answer ^.^

 

Crucial has just released a 64GB drive that's cheaper per GB than the Intel G2 while also being faster (probably).

It seems very likely that Intel G2's price will be adjusted.

Intel's new generation SSD will be released later this year and supposedly the price per GB will be lower than the current generation.

So to answer your question: Yes it is very likely that a 80GB (or 160GB) Intel will be cheaper at the end of the year.

 

Yeah, crucial's 64gb ssd is very tempting since its advertised read speed is indeed superior compared to intel's mainstream ssd. Probably, I'll just have to wait.

 

Advertised read and write speeds aren't that important... What makes SSDs so fast is 1) access times and 2) random R/W speeds (which are far slower than SATA/150, and are rarely advertised).