"What's happening is Intel is figuring out what to do with the price," Handy said.

Intel could be providing drives at a particular capacity at a cheap rate, and those needing more capacity could move over to Intel's more expensive and advanced SSD lines, Handy said.

Since the start of April, Intel has announced a rash of new drives made using the latest 25-nanometer process, which results in more power-efficient and faster storage than previous drives made using the 34-nanometer process. While the SSD 330 and 320 lines are made using the new manufacturing process, the newer drives could help speed up application performance within computers.

The SSD 330 drives are able to transfer data more quickly through compatibility with the SATA 6-gigabits-per-second interface, which provides double the throughput of the SATA 3Gbps interface used by the SSD 320 series. The SSD 330 drive provides sequential read speeds of 500MB per second and up to 450MB per second of sequential write speeds.

Intel has beefed up the overall capacity of its SSDs to 800GB with its new data center SSD 910 series, which was announced last week. The SSD 910 series are single-level cell (SLC) drives, in which one bit of data is stored per cell. The SSD 330 drives are MLC (multi-level cell) SSDs, in which bits of data are stored at multiple levels in each cell. The SSD 330 MLC drives offer slower read and write speeds than the enterprise 910 SSDs.