Intel drops SSD prices this Christmas

Intel Philippines just sent in word that they are slashing down the prices of their SSD storage units this Christmas. They’re still relatively expensive but nice to know the prices are going down.

We’ve tried on of the smaller drives from Intel before, the 40GB Intel X25-V SATA SSD and results were pretty impressive.

The new Intel SSD prices are as follows:

Intel X25-V 40GB SATA SSD: $99 (Php5,000 in PC Express)
Intel X25-M 80GB SATA SSD: $189 (Php9,500 in PC Express)
Intel X25-M 120GB SATA SSD: $239
Intel X25-M 160GB SATA SSD: $399 (Php17,950 in PC Express)

These prices might vary a bit once they hit the local stores. So far, we’ve only seen the equivalent units at PC Express but they should go down now that Intel has slashed the prices.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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18 Comments

ald1012 says:

14 years ago

I just bought an HP Tablet PC with 160G SSD running Windows 7.

Cold boot is under 80 seconds.

From sleep mode is under 60 seconds.

Office 2010 launch time is blinding fast!
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Vincent Linsangan Maldia says:

14 years ago

According to the tipidpc SSD thread, the price drop is not enough. There are other brands of locally available SSD’s that are supposedly slightly faster than those intels and all intel did was to match their price. Its not a good deal since the speed is slightly slower. Intel should have made the new price maybe 10% lower
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vince says:

14 years ago

I bought a hybrid hard drive. Like most hybrids it has all the advantages and disadvantages of both SSD’s and mechanical HD’s

see here for the review and decide if it is a worthwhile compromise

http://magos-biologis.blogspot.com/2010/11/seagate-momentus-xt-review.html
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lolipown says:

14 years ago

@Les
It’s called a 2.5 to 3.5 converter. Most reputation computer supply shops carry this.
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Les says:

14 years ago

Guys, can anyone tell me where i can purchase an enclosure for this? that will fit in my desktop casing coz i dont have a 2.5″ slot.
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

Trim only delays the inevitable.
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lolipown says:

14 years ago

if an SSD is way beyond your budget, you can always jump on those hybrid drives
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arvindelacruz says:

14 years ago

@greenapple imagine your Windows 7 Machine booting in 10 seconds flat! Mine took almost 5 minutes to load Win7 when it was on a 500Gb Seagate Momentus 5400rpm drive.
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Green Apple says:

14 years ago

what improvement do i get and how much improvement is it compared to an ordinary IDE or SATA harddrive on a laptop running Windows 7? Is it really worth it?
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manaka_junpei says:

14 years ago

nagiging mura na ang SSD sa taong ito, pero mahal pa rin ang larger capacity….panimula palang ang 40GB SSD mo
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arvindelacruz says:

14 years ago

I bought an Intel 160Gb SSD from PC Express Pasong Tamo last week and it is truly the SINGLE MOST BANG-FOR-THE-BUCK upgrade to a NEW notebook.

Its an even better upgrade to buying 8Gb RAM (P17,000 from crucial.com), that I also put in my Vaio CW26 a few months ago.

I was thinking of buying a G-SKILL Sandforce SSD (240Gb, P23,000) but the 2 week wait was too long and Intel drives are still more energy efficient, per Anandtech’s article.
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lolipown says:

14 years ago

@john
this is why you have TRIM
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john says:

14 years ago

does the SSD raid PERFOMANCE REALLY DETORIATE?

http://paulstamatiou.com/ssd-raid-performance-9-months-later
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beats_master says:

14 years ago

kinda expensive, yes, but the benefit is surely felt. currently using the 80gb flavor paired with a core i5 750 and the system boot time and apps are really fast compared to using an HDD.
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Jhay says:

14 years ago

Still too expensive. And Christmas this year isn’t like Christmas a few years ago.
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LagaoLugaw says:

14 years ago

if they take off around 25% from the price im going to think about it.
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Larry Miranda says:

14 years ago

For an average consumer like me, I still think it’s better to hold off buying ssd. It’s still pretty expensive…
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tipler says:

14 years ago

even with this price update, it looks like ssd’s with sandforce controllers still trump them value-wise
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