SandForce , the corporate behind the firms that make the very best SSDs avaiable for purchase, is at it again — this time demoing 24nm NAND flash from Toshiba on the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA. An SF-2000 processor was matched with the hot shrunk-down storage, a 6Gb/sec SATA connection, and jammed inside a 2.5-inch enclosure to deliver 500MB/sec read and write speeds. It’s not the fastest we have seen, however the big news here is not the data rates — it is the potential for cheaper SSDs. The smaller manufacturing process means Toshiba would be in a position to squeeze more storage out of the similar wafer of silicon and, hopefully, shrink those still somewhat bloated prices. Inspect the whole PR after the break.
Break-through 2nd Generation SSD Processors Continue to Set the Technology Standard for Volume SSD Deployment with Industry’s Most Advanced NAND Flash
Flash Memory Summit 2011
August 09, 2011 09:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–SandForce® Inc., the innovator of Solid State Drive (SSD) Processors that drive ubiquitous deployment of volume flash memory into primary and that i/O intensive data storage applications, today announced the primary public demonstration of its award-winning SSD Processors working in concert with the industry’s most aggressive NAND flash family for SSD applications — 24 nanometer (nm) Multi-level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash from Toshiba. This product combination enables SandForce Driven™ SSD manufacturers to provide cheaper SSD products that will further accelerate adoption inside the enterprise, client, and industrial computing markets that demand optimized reliability, performance, and gear efficiency. Industry analyst Gartner (May 2011 forecast) reports SSD unit shipments inside the three target markets will surpass 66 million units in 2014 — an astounding 61% compound annual growth rate from 2010 shipments.
“Because the principal inventor of NAND Flash memory, Toshiba is consistently evolving this technology to be the best quality and most inexpensive media for SSDs by working closely with innovative companies like SandForce,” said Shigeo Ohshima, Technology Executive, Memory Design and alertness Engineering, Toshiba Corporation. “The SandForce SF-2000 SSD Processor, combined with our new 24nm NAND Flash memory provides an optimal SSD approach to enable accelerated deployment of skinny-and-light notebooks in addition to mainstream enterprise applications.”
So far, SandForce has shipped well over 2 million SSD Processors through greater than 30 SandForce Driven and other SSD manufacturers in 18 months, validating the tremendous demand and market need for the performance and capability of the SandForce SF-1000 and SF-2000 product families. SandForce SSD Processors use innovative DuraClass™ technology with RAISE™ and patented and patent pending DuraWrite™ to optimize the full user computing experience.
“Our award winning DuraClass technology features a selection of features enabling the industry’s highest level of reliability, endurance, performance, and tool efficiency in one SSD Processor solution,” said Thad Omura, vice chairman of selling at SandForce. “We worked closely with Toshiba to expand DuraClass with additional advanced read recovery techniques vital to the successful operation of SSDs that use more aggressive NAND Flash process nodes.”
See the Technology Live at Flash Memory Summit, August 9-11!
SandForce will demonstrate the powerful combination of the Toshiba 24nm MLC Flash memory and its latest SF-2000 SSD Processor in a 2.5″ SSD form factor during exhibition hours at booth #407-409 (Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California). The demonstration features the company’s 6 Gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) SATA SF-2000 SSD Processors with balanced read and write accelerates to 500 Megabytes per second and as much as 60,000 IOPS with state-of-the-art, Toshiba 24nm Toggle Flash memory operating at 166 mega-transfers per second.
Other products on display include complete SandForce reference designs and non-HDD form factor SSDs from various SandForce Driven™ members.
About SandForce
SandForce SSD Processors use DuraClass technology with RAISE and patented and patent pending DuraWrite to drive ubiquitous deployment of volume flash memory into primary and that i/O intensive data storage applications. SandForce Driven SSDs dramatically optimize mission-critical application reliability, IT infrastructure ROI, green power preservation, and everyday computing user experiences. Founded in 2006, SandForce is funded by leading venture capital investors and primary tier storage companies. For additional information, visit SandForce at www.sandforce.com and follow SandForce on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
SandForce and the SandForce logo are registered trademarks, and DuraClass, DuraWrite, RAISE, SandForce Driven, the SandForce Driven logo, SandForce Trusted, and the SandForce Trusted logo are trademarks of SandForce Inc. All other trademarks are the valuables in their respective owners.
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