| finding out
more about SandForce SSD processors |
Editor:- more than 30 SSD
manufacturers and systems vendors worldwide (now including
Intel and
EMC) rely on SandForce's
SSD processors to supply - what is in effect - a new industry standard for
high performance and reliability in a small form factor - enabled by the
company's
DuraClass and other
related technologies.
SandForce changed the
way that the SSD market viewed the IP inside the SSD - from being an arcane
subject - of interest to only a small select group of designers and marketers -
to becoming almost a cult fascination for those users who wanted to know what
the future would bring.
SandForce has leveraged that acclaim in its
SandForce
Driven branding programs - designed to help it and its partners sell more
SSDs.
From my conversations with the company's management what shines
through is that they started from knowing the silicon and worked backwards from
that to create an SSD architecture which rigorously manages all the key aspects
of unreliable raw flash (including MLC) and crafts from that raw material new
solid state storage drives which provide industry leading IOPS and performance
- with the data integrity and reliability needed for the new SSD accelerated
server age. All this - without using external RAM caches too. The thinking
behind this is impressive.
If you want to find out more about the SSD
processors the links here - on the right - provide an overview of publicly
available documents about these key SSD processor product families. To learn
more you'll have to
contact
Flash Components Division of LSI. | |
| overview of SandForce SSD
processors
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- SF-2400
SSD Processors - aimed at cloud computing - and launched in December 2011 -
this range enables the highest performance levels with 2xnm/2ynm MLC flash and
adds new tools for health management and over provisioning
- SF-1500
Enterprise SSD Processors - this is the product line which established the
reputation of SandForce - for high performance (30k IOPS) in 3Gb/s SATA 2
environments.
- SF-1200
Client SSD Processors - supports up to 10k sustained write IOPS in SATA 2
environments. Some oems have used multiple 1st generation controllers from this
family in RAID like arrays - to make affordable fast SSD modules connected
via PCIe.
- Beyond
HDD Form Factors - shows examples of SSDs - designed by SandForce Driven
partners - with form factors outside the range of conventional hard drives
to meet the needs of new SSD markets..
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