SandForce demos world’s leading SSD performance and power efficiency per drive density

Flash Memory Summit 2010, SANTA CLARA, USA: SandForce Inc., the pioneer of SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors that enable standard NAND Flash deployment in enterprise, client and industrial computing applications, announced that its award-winning SF-1000 SSD Processor family delivers unbeatable storage I/O performance in tiny form factors and ultra-low power platforms including green IT servers, storage and RAID card infrastructure, enthusiast computing appliances, and mission-critical embedded systems.

The Slim SATA (MO297A) storage drive form factor consumes 6 to 12 times less volume than traditional 2.5-inch drives and was standardized by JEDEC specifically for SSD applications without an outer case as spinning media moving components do not need to be supported. The single-chip architecture of the SF-1000 SSD Processor family eliminates the use of external DRAM caches, differentiating it from other enterprise and client SSD controllers.

As a result, SandForce is the only SSD controller solution that supports the density of six flash packages (up to 384GB physical capacity with 20 nanometer-class MLC NAND) on the Slim SATA form factor, while delivering 30,000 random 4 Kilobyte (KB) read / write IOPS (I/O operations per second) in a one watt power envelope.

With integrated DuraClass Technology, SandForce SSD Processors enable the practical use of multi-level cell (MLC) flash in enterprise class storage systems and change the landscape for SSDs servicing highly reliable, I/O intensive applications at affordable price-points for broad-based deployment. SandForce is continuing its SSD market leadership by extending these capabilities to the industry’s smallest form factor designs without sacrificing reliability, performance or power efficiency.

Steffen Hellmold, VP of Business Development, SandForce, said: "Our customers have been mostly deploying our first generation SSD Processors in traditional 2.5-inch drive form factors as they are shipping into existing storage sockets with a defined power-density envelope. Beyond that, we see a growing demand for more cost-effective, smaller form factor designs that our single-chip SSD Processors optimally address.

"We are excited to see a whole new generation of SSDs come to market optimized around the performance-power-density that only SandForce can enable at price points for mass-market adoption."