First OCZ Technology Group unveiled the OCZ Onyx 32GB SATA II 2.5-inch solid-state drive series, "an ultra-affordable" for under $100.
Now Intel ships the 40GB X25-V Value SATA SSD at USD$125.
When it comes to price per gigabyte, HDDs are still far cheaper than SSDs cost from $2.50 to $3 per gigabyte, while hard disk drives cost around 10 cents per gigabyte. There probably will be an uptake of the 40GB SSD, but it's not going to replace a HDD in a notebook at this point.
SSDs are far superior to hard disk drives when it comes to performance, power use and ruggedness. And $100 USD is the right price point to help convert more users to SSD computing.