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PC Perspective & Tom's Hardware also have their takes on this now. There's also an ongoing DiskCompare.com review roundup

If the price curve drops like the first-gen X-25M we should all be happy pretty soon.

http://xkcd.com/605/

AnandTech has a nice writeup too. If the price curve drops like the first-gen X-25M we should all be happy pretty soon.

I like this one better: http://diskcompare.com/

This page has a price history graph for the 32GB model (scroll down a bit). The price dropped quite a bit a couple months after the introduction. Hopefully the 64GB model will follow the same pattern (pushing down the 32GB model along with it ... $200 range maybe?).

This page has a price history graph for the 32GB model (scroll down a bit). The price dropped quite a bit a couple months after the introduction. Hopefully the 64GB model will follow the same pattern (pushing down the 32GB model along with it ... $200 range maybe?).

OCZ has grabbed the bottom, at least on NewEgg, looking here and sorting by price, you'll find the 30GB Solid Series is $69.99.

OCZ has grabbed the bottom, at least on NewEgg, looking here and sorting by price, you'll find the 30GB Solid Series is $69.99.

Both the Seagate 7200.11 and Western Digital Caviar Black families have a 5-year warranty (see comparison).

Actually $80/500GB = $0.16/GB, so the gap is even wider between the Super Talent's $5.57/GB and say a Seagate 7200.10. Right now the price per gigabyte of SSD vs traditional is almost 35x higher, but it'll certainly come down drastically in the next few years. When it gets down to under 5x higher, I think it'll really take off.

More like $80 for 500gb, which is about 16 cents/gigabyte. The cheapest SSDs, at least listed on that site, are $5.16/gb, so there's still about a factor of 32 difference.

It seems a little bass-ackwards to have the mechanical device buffering for the solid-state one :) Maybe what you need is just more simply to have two separate devices in your laptop, a small SSD to hold your OS and apps, say a 32 GB Transcend for only $175 or so, and then a low-power, set to sleep ASAP traditional drive for your data, movies, or whatever else.

It's a little better than the current Raptors' 0.88 GB/$, but nowhere close to the 6.25 GB/$ for a Samsung Spinpoint F1. You gotta wonder if a RAID array of cheaper drives wouldn't give you overall better performance, and more than 2x the storage for way less money.

It's a little better than the current Raptors' 0.88 GB/$, but nowhere close to the 6.25 GB/$ for a Samsung Spinpoint F1. You gotta wonder if a RAID array of cheaper drives wouldn't give you overall better performance, and more than 2x the storage for way less money.

Eh, right now the biggest you can get for under $600, at least from Newegg, is 32GB, which I wouldn't rally call "large". One of the 32GB Transcend units though is just $175, which might be tempting for some uses.

DiskCompare.com is a good place to check out how these drives rate in terms of value. The Caviar GP WD10EACS is currently at 4.35 GB/$ (newegg prices), the sweet spot though for the Caviar GP Family (and for most other brands too) is the 750GB size, with the WD7500AACS coming in at 5.35 GB/$

DiskCompare.com is a good place to check out how these drives rate in terms of value. The Caviar GP WD10EACS is currently at 4.35 GB/$ (newegg prices), the sweet spot though for the Caviar GP Family (and for most other brands too) is the 750GB size, with the WD7500AACS coming in at 5.35 GB/$

DiskCompare.com is a good place to check out how these drives rate in terms of value. The Caviar GP WD10EACS is currently at 4.35 GB/$ (newegg prices), the sweet spot though for the Caviar GP Family (and for most other brands too) is the 750GB size, with the WD7500AACS coming in at 5.35 GB/$

DiskCompare.com is a good place to check out how these drives rate in terms of value. The Caviar GP WD10EACS is currently at 4.35 GB/$ (newegg prices), the sweet spot though for the Caviar GP Family (and for most other brands too) is the 750GB size, with the WD7500AACS coming in at 5.35 GB/$