Samsung intros new solid state drives
THE GREAT CHAEBOL known as the Samsung Electronics Company has announced it’s moving into the cheapo SSD product segment with a new range of 'Low density SATA II SSDs' based on MLC NAND, targeting the low low price PC market.
The SSDs will come in three flavours: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. These sparsely populated PCB units are fast on sequential reads, but relatively slow on the writes. Read numbers are 90MB/s throughout, but as the chip density goes up, so does the write performance – 25MB/s, 45MB/s and 70MB/s respectively. Not the most impressive of specs, but of course they are using MLC Flash memory: cheaper and with lower write performance than SLC Flash.
You won’t be breaking any speed records, that’s for sure, but the netbook and nettop makers will kiss the Chaebol’s pinky for this grand gesture.
Just how cheap these low density SSDs are hasn’t been spun, as these will make their way to OEM/ODMs, but when an SDD maker as big as Samsung says “cheap” you can usually expect it to be true.
Shipping next month they say. µ
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Think of ALL Losey Parts HDD has, Motors, Gear to wibble 'd wobbler, fantastic software needs to snip & crummy performance whole in HOT, Noisy, mess.

You've seen SSD Card in theINQ & Register, it really couldn't be much cheaper in materials list & memory is printed by photo process, similar to cpu. with advanced SSD technology main Royaly cost..
There is little reason to use anything except SSD, except in todays cost. 

SSD Cost is unnaturally inflated due to newness & establishing lines. Yet, actual cost of manufacture must be cheap as chippers in Class A Bar. Wowie.
These are particularly good as C Drive & in preliminarly races, SSD looks like it can become Speedie Gonzales of Today. Some Pundits & Manufacturers even have had 40X R/W SSD Machines on Display.SO go figure.
drashek
people compare write and read speeds, but where ssd's really shine is in random access time write/read, even the slowest ssd demolishes the best hd out there. 

90% of what an average computer does is random write/read.

If these new drives are so cheap, then putting them in raid0 w/sata2 or the new sata3, no harddrive can compete.

As for write wear recient tests have shone that the new ssd's produced in the last year would have to be written to 24/7 for over 40 years before write wear takes its toll, compare that to a hd that can barely last 2 3 years.
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

hd is dead!!

longlive SSD!!
Well, great, now we can have a NAND MLC SSD that fails how quickly? Isn't that the point SSDs use predominantly single level cells? This one is cheap for a reason...