Intel has released some new MLC-based SSDs lately and they seem to be pretty good, especially compared to other MLC-based SSDs, unfortunately they do seem a bit pricey and I couldn't find them in stores here yet.

AnandTech review

Thus Intel will guarantee that you can write 100GB of data to one of its MLC SSDs every day, for the next five years, and your data will remain intact. The drives only ship with a 3 year warranty but I suspect that there'd be some recourse if you could prove that Intel's 100GB/day promise was false.
Within the next five years we'll be in a situation where the fans in your system are more likely to fail than your hard drive, and if your drive does happen to fail it'll tell you well in advance. How nice of it.


What Intel did with the X25-M is show the world what is possible with MLC flash. You get better than SLC performance, at lower than SLC prices. Despite that, the absolute only thing that bothers me about Intel's X25-M is the price. Although Intel is totally justified in pricing the X25-M at $595, I was hoping for pricing inline with the JMicron based MLC SSDs. At $300 - $400 this would be a no brainer for any enthusiast, and honestly even at $595 it's worth considering if you have other drives for data storage.
This last quote seems to hit the nail on the head, although if you look at the whole article you will see that gaming performance is not affected too much in comparison to normal HDDs but if the pricing of this thing will fall the temptation to get one, or two, or even three will grow, seems Intel showed everyone how to make a real SSD and that MLC-based SSDs don't have to be bad.