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posted on 06 May 2008 09:39

Super Talent has halved the price of entry-level solid state drives (SSD) by using multi-level cell (MLC) technology.

Its MasterDrive DX 30GB single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash SSD is $699 whereas its MLC MasterDrive MX 30GB product is $299 (pictured). There is a strong difference in write speed through. The DX writes at 70MB/sec whereas the MX can only manage 40MB/sec. Both products read at 120MB/sec.

The MX 60GB product costs $449 and the DX 120GB is priced at $649. The 60GB DX is $1299. Both DX and MX SSDs operate with the3Gbit/s Serial ATA (SATA) II interface.

DailyTech reports OCZ prices as being typical of the market today: a 32GB SATA II SLC NAND SSD is $599; with 64GB being $1099. Super Talent is aggressively lowering prices for entry-level SSD capacity points. The higher capacities are still expensive with Super Talent's 250GB SLC SSD costing $5,995.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}