Intel X25-M G2 SSD - image courtesy Anandtech.com

Intel’s splendid new Solid State Drives have been on quite the rollercoaster. Announced mid-July to the delight of the peasants, not a week later they were pulled from production due to a rather serious bug that could lose all of your data.

The firmware fix was finally made available a few weeks ago and drives have been slow to roll into retailers. Last week we reported that you could start to find the drives and now NewEgg has them back in stock.

Unfortunately, the laws of supply and demand apply much like death and taxes, and the drives are priced quite a bit higher than Intel’s quoted bulk price. Only the 80GB model is currently available and it is listed at $349.99, compared to Intel’s bulk price of $225 and prices in the $230-270 range when the drives were first announced.

This is definitely not the time to pick up one of the second gen models. Even though early adopters generally pay a premium, this isn’t the premium for new technology – it’s the premium for so little of the new technology.

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