intel have so much respect for their customers they have been fined record amounts in every continent except the Americas for price fixing, anti-competitive behaviour and generally being a long, long way short of showing respect to anybody.

They pulled these because data corruption can lead to huge lawsuits and for no other reason.

Compare this to Microsoft shipping a pre-alpha OS as if it where a final release, and then using consumers as testers to find the thousands of bugs.

At least you did the right thing. OCZ continues to sell SSD drives that are known faulty and refuses to acknowledge the problem.

You did the right thing on this one, even though this bug is localized to the a BIOS password being set.

Wish others manufactures would have this level of respect for their customers.

£50/GB? I'm not sure which retailers you're looking at, but I can't see any stupid enough to try to charge £8,000 for these drives. The cost is about £2/GB, which while high compared to conventional hard disks, the performance is equivalently higher also (between 10-30x depending on the type of workload). They're also much more robust, silent, draw less power, run cooler, work over a wider temperature range and don't slow down noticeably when files get fragmented.
Expect to see PCs moving towards two tier storage, with an SSD for fast primary storage and HDs for slower bulk storage.

who is this ponce and how is he a tech writer? does he not even read his own site enough to know Intel is selling 34nm drives. DOH! Warning, reading the INQ in its current state can lead to severe brain damage. Get a grip Inquirer!

They are available starting from today (at least here in Finland). I know people from Germany who also already got their drive.

When it comes to the euro/gigabyte, the new 34 nm drives are the cheapest good performer around.

i heard that it was halted because there were not enough customers to pay the massive £50 per GB pricetag!

2 week must be a long time at the inquirer also, because it looks like Intel has managed to shrink its 34nm flash chips down to 32nm according to your headline.. Quite a feat..Maybe Intels image will not be as tarnished after all :)