Micron Technology announced Tuesday that it will ship a series of solid state drives next quarter ranging up to 256 gigabytes in capacity, but at one-third the price per gigabyte of existing drives.

Micron’s RealSSD-branded products are targeted at both the corporate enterprise and laptop markets–the latter drives priced significantly lower. The Boise, Idaho-based memory chip manufacturer’s entry into the high-capacity SSD market presages Intel’s launch of a line of SSDs later this year. Intel and Micron have a partnership to jointly manufacture flash memory.

SSDs generally are faster and more power efficient than hard disk drives, though there is an ongoing debate about the degree to which SSDs exceed hard disk drives in power efficiency.