SandForce SF-1000 SSD Processor Shipping in Volume

SandForce Inc. announced that its 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 online-transaction processing performance, to every-day client computing laptops and PCs.

"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."

SandForce demonstrated PCI Express, SAS, and SATA SSDs based on its SSD Processor products at the Intel Developer Forum. These demonstrations featured 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 showcased the OCZ Technology 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).