Intel says the drive is aimed at "dual-drive/boot drive desktop set-ups" as well as Netbooks. Solid-state drives typically offer better performance--in some cases, dramatically better performance--than hard disk drives. But SSDs cost more per gigabyte than hard drives, which, to date, has limited SSDs to performance-sensitive applications such as high-end laptops, gaming PCs, and servers.

Intel ships solid-state drive for fast app start-up