If you are in the market for a speed upgrade for your computer and don't have a big budget, you might be interested in news coming from Intel. For $89 for a 60GB drive, $149 for a 120GB drive and $234 for a 180GB drive you can get Intels latest SSD 330 series. For that money you will get SSD's based on Intels 25 nm multi-level cell NAND memory. Intel reports that the drive is able to deliver 500 MB/S sequential read speed and 450 MB/S sequential write speed. When it comes to random performance you can expect a maximum of 22,500 (IOPS) and 33,000 write IOPS.
