The reseller price for the Intel X-25M solid state disk seemed to be in line with what Newegg was charging, and there is a huge difference in write performance

The reseller price for the Intel X-25M solid state disk seemed to be in line with what Newegg was charging, and there is a huge difference in write performance between the Intel MLC disks and everything else on the market right now. Some of the other MLC disks have such latency problems with random writes that they can cause your OS to panic. You are right that there is going to be a big price drop, though. Samsung will have an Intel competitor with larger capacity on the market soon, and that's just the beginning.