Solid State HDDs have been used in netbooks for a while now. These drives do improve performance but they are not cheap by any means. In fact, netbooks and solid state drives haven’t been friends so far. Intel intends to change that by introducing 40GB X25-V SSD. These hard drives are not only faster than your regular hard drives, they perform much better in dual drive environments as well. And they are more rugged than their regular counterparts as they have no moving parts.

Intel seems to be optimistic about this new drive as it’s priced more netbook friendly and offers performance improvement that netbook fans crave:

We really want to get the message out that this is a great product with a $125 price point and with capacity large enough to hold your OS and applications

Intel is not going to be the only company going after the entry level SSD market. Toshiba and other companies have already gotten there. The question at this point is when we are going to see solid state drive netbooks released to the market. Netbooks are supposed to be super portable laptops for business or pleasure. It certainly helps to get better performance and more data security on the road with those solid state drives.