Production SSD Processors Accelerate Industry-Wide Solid State Adoption
Intel Developer Forum San Francisco 2010
SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SandForce® Inc., the pioneer of SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors that enable standard NAND Flash deployment in enterprise, client, and industrial computing applications, today announced that its award-winning SF-1000 SSD Processor family is shipping in volume production in SSD products that incorporate PCI Express, SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) and SATA (Serial ATA) host interfaces with advanced MLC NAND Flash. SandForce SSD Processors are used in systems that scale from mission-critical, Enterprise servers and storage infrastructure that deliver world-class online-transaction processing performance, to every-day client computing laptops and PCs.
“By enabling both standard and unique form factor solutions with our DRAM-less SSD Processor architecture, SandForce is paving the way for volume deployment of SSDs with industry-standard interfaces including PCI Express, SAS, and SATA – all available in production today from leading SSD manufacturers.”
“Our unique DuraClass™ technology is proven to enable industry-leading reliability, performance-per-watt, and performance-per-drive-volume compared to traditional rotating storage media and other solid state controller solutions,” said Kent Smith, Senior Director of Product Marketing for SandForce. “By enabling both standard and unique form factor solutions with our DRAM-less SSD Processor architecture, SandForce is paving the way for volume deployment of SSDs with industry-standard interfaces including PCI Express, SAS, and SATA – all available in production today from leading SSD manufacturers.”
See SandForce Driven SSDs at the Intel Developer Forum!
SandForce will demonstrate PCI Express, SAS, and SATA SSDs based on its industry-leading SSD Processor products at the Intel Developer Forum, September 13-15, San Francisco Moscone Center West, booth 614 in the Technology Showcase. These demonstrations feature advanced Intel NAND Flash products including the latest 25nm MLC (Multi-Level Cell) technologies.
For enthusiasts who demand the ultimate in desktop storage performance and responsiveness, SandForce is showcasing the OCZ Technology (NASDAQ:OCZ) RevoDrive X2 SSD. This PCI Express SSD leverages a PCIe x4 interface for high data throughput that avoids the bottleneck of the traditional SATA interfaces. The RevoDrive X2 features four SandForce SSD Processors enabling up to nearly 1 Terabyte of storage capacity, over 730MB/s sequential read and/or write performance and over 120,000 random write IOPS (4KB block transfer size). This unique solution provides both the ultimate in performance, plug-and-play ease of use, and mainstream market affordability.
About SandForce
SandForce is transforming data storage by pioneering the use of standard flash memory in enterprise, client, and industrial computing applications with its innovative SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors. By delivering unprecedented reliability, performance, and energy efficiency, SSDs based on patent-pending SandForce DuraClass technology unleash the full potential for mass-market adoption of SSDs using NAND flash memory. Founded in 2006, SandForce is funded by leading venture capital investors and first tier storage companies. For more information, visit SandForce at www.sandforce.com.