SandForce unveiled its controllers for flash drives (SSD) from April 2009. The SF-1500 SF-1200 look promising, and a first manufacturer OCZ announced that it will soon propose new SSD the operator, with capacities ranging from 50 to 400 GB today's A-Data announcing a partnership with SandForce, and indicates in passing that also propose solutions based on the California manufacturer of controllers.

Gibson Chen, vice president of the Taiwanese company said "by combining high-performance chips SandForce signed and experience of development teams and production of A-Data, we will create a synergy to propel performance to SSD a new level. "

Thad Omura, vice president of marketing of California thinks about him "that using the platform of making A-Data will enable SandForce develop its products in new markets."

The SandForce SF-1500 is a controller for the market rather "business". It supports both MLC SLC that consumes 950 mW and has a MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) of 10 million hours. The FS-1200 is rather special, and more specifically the mobile market, with limited support to the MLC and reduced consumption to 550 mW. Its MTTF is 2 million hours.

The values in reading and writing sequential 128 KB are around 250-260 MB / s in both cases. Count about 120 MB / s (30 000 IOPS) in 4 KB random read performance obviously differ between the two references on the side of 4 KB random writes SF-1500 to 120 Mb / s (30 000 IOPS) while SF-1200 is limited to 40 MB / s (10 000 IOPS).

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