The year 2011 was rather complex in solid-state drive matters. The industry at last created a move towards SATAiii and with that came a lot of fresh controllers and thus solid-state drives. Beginning in the year the most promising SSDs where founded on SandForce 2281 controllers. Unluckily for SandForce, they acquired haunted and plagued through firmware consequences forcing individual to reflash their SSDs, and that is only not ok... as 9 out of 10 times that too invokes your information being lost.


It was in a way so late in Q3 while the firmware bug at last acquired identified and determined despite numerous fixes and modifies. So though the SandForce 2281 founded SSDs function quick as heck and are stable just, the reputation harm was done. SandForce products are no longer the #1 option for end users.


As weird as it sounds, that firmware bug may be the excellent thing that could occur for the market actually (not for your information though!). See, other players profited from that massively. Assume for example the fresh Corsair

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Function professional SSD drives that are Marvell based. Or OCZ for example entire of the sudden they inject proprietary Indilinx controller founded products, there is more players on the market just and that is excellent for contest, for us as technology-press it was an interesting dynamic to witness in the technology channel alright.


Sand Force royally screwed up with the 2000 serial versus firmware consequences. And I actually do need to create so clear that entire latest firmwares are stable, for any vendor. But that does not mean that the word is out and the reputation of that controller easy is dented, maintaining possible consumers away.


Increase and shine was then used to the Crucial M4 series, being the exact example, shine that is. Individual obviously choose buying a 100% stable product albeit compromising a small on function here and there.


We are even not there though, we imagine a lot of shifts and alter in the solid-state drive arena in the years to arrive. The SSD market could become a competitive slaughter fest as inevitably costs will go down, so much same to the drop in memory costs. That means just the players in the market that have proprietary technology and intellectual property in-house will survive this race. That means at the very least, have either your own controller technology or your own NAND Flash storage.