LiteOn S900 SSD, the new king of budget SSD? (Opinion)

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LiteOn, the OEM of charger and Dell's SSD now produce their own S900 SSD that is available for purchase, not just for OEMs. And guess what? US$65 for 128GB and US$108 for 256GB!

Yeah it looks pretty dull, and inb4 "Oh it's cheap, must be crappy Sandforce with crappy NAND from crappy company", this is a SSD with Marvell 88SS9188 controller and 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND!

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This SSD is currently only available in Asia AFAIK, but it is very reliable so far with little failure rate in the region. This is definitely a SSD to grab if you are on budget should LiteOn decides to sell them in other countries.

What do you guys think? Discuss!

( Photo Credits: LiteOn Chinese website and http://www.thetechrevolutionist.com/ )

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Seems a lot of SSDs are getting to this price point. I mean, i got my Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB (Sequential read speed 550 MB/s; Sequential write speed 520 MB/s; Random read speed 100K; Random write speed 90K) for $109 (currently $113 on Amazon). The 120 is $69. so i mean, like $4-$5 more than those Lite-on prices.

And Crucial has the BX100 250GB for $99. The 120GB-256GB seems to be decently low across the board. I think where you start to compare would be around the 500GB-1TB+ range.