Intel 320 SSD aka G3

[Ao1]

The promise of 25nm was lower costs. A mainstream product is not a mainstream product if it is sold at an enthusiast price level. $1.1K for a 600GB drive puts it in perspective. It’s more expensive than a decent laptop/ pc.

As for features being disabled imagine if a car manufacturer had seat belts in a car but hide them from view, only to reveal them on a refresh of the model. The potential to lose data that could have been protected is a fair analogy to that scenario.

Intel won’t be making any profits from me on the G3.

EDIT and the point is that Intel engineers had already spent the time in developing features (most likely there from G1) that they intentionally held back for future "upgrades".