Intel preps $45 SSD
WITH MOST OF THE market looking onwards towards the newly-released platforms like Intel’s Atom, Nvidia’s Tegra and Via’s Nano – details on supporting hardware have been scarce.
Scarce, that is, until Intel announced its Z-P230 PATA drives, for the UMPC and MID market (although theoretically it could also target CE). PATA as it may be, the Z-P230 comes in 4GB and 8GB flavours (with 16GB to follow by the end of the year) and pricing will be an amazingly low $25 ($6.25 per Gig) and $45 ($5.625 per Gig), respectively. Adding as little as 10g to the device that will support it (basically anything with a PATA interface and 1.8-inch connector), the Z-P230 draws just 1.65mW at idle (if there is such a thing in SSD) and 314mW whilst active.
Performance may be nothing special, or just enough to run some whacky OS and help get you through a work day, with a 35MB/s sustained sequential read and 7MB/s sustained sequential write speed. That would be enough, though, to read through hi-def 1920x1080 60fps video...
Oh. MTBF is 1 million hours – with an average three-year life expectancy.
This really does show just how much faith (and how many Benjamins) Intel is willing to throw at the UMPC and MID market, and just how far they are willing to go. Intel could be making a killing by charging a premium for any sort of SSD they put out the door, but right now they’ve gone into “enabler” mode whereby money is knowingly lost and chalked up to making a platform (Atom) viable.
We wouldn’t be shocked if these things eventually made Via Nanobooks, Tegra-based MIDs viable too. That kind of investment has a nasty habit of biting you in the butt-ocks, you know? µ
L’Inq
Z-P230
Share this:
ShareBusiness Intelligence Software
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Accounting Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Systems Management
Stuff that, I will grab a quartet of them, raid the little fellers together with nvraid and have the best $100 games drive available :) 

Access times become the pivot point, can they still push less than 1ms?
HOLY FECKING CACK!!!
the first major leap in hard drives has come people. get ur pata cables ready!
CF cards have PATA intefaces and this just seems to be a renamed CF card.
Seems like Intel is trying to push SSD into the mainstream.

Push it fairly hard even.

Makes sense since they currently do not make HDD this is a new market for them to get into and another area to make money that they were not previously (in any big way like WD or Seagate)

and personally I think SSD's potential is huge. I have read fair amount on the Inq and other sites (please don't hurt me) about SSD improvements including extending life/hrs and shrinking chips and adding speed

hi-Paul, I thunks you're understating importance here. Don't have to calculate how much entire stick o' memory would cost, its right there. $45 for 16 Gigabytes. OMG. 16 Gb, thats beyond average desktop, hope someone is smart enough to use 64 Bit O/S. You Know How those Little Snafus' go.

Complete NEW Level of Price/Performance is Reached, although with Flash falling 50% year, it fits into pricing NEXT Year. Nice & Ultie Slow, too.Cank out IDE adapters, again.
OMG,Don't Tell Stewie, Stewie BUY HouseFull. 
Of Course, it is Tad slow for Primary memory, yet there was time....Long,Long Ago, Before Universe Was Created, that I Remember....
Top End Flash is Already approaching 200+ mb/s, So NO Probs, once Mind is Set, NO /Reason Allowed.
Stewie Drashek
Market for 4GB is only $10. Selling on $25 is not amazingly low price, actually quite a good profit. Check the market price on:http://www.aice.com.hk/index.asp