Company Profiles

A number of noted industry analysts have written company and product overviews on the SandForce SSD Processor family and the underlying patent-pending DuraClass technology. They can be accessed and read through the links below.

SandForce – Forcing a Solid State Reconsideration

Mark Peters, Senior Analyst

Enterprise Strategy Group

By enabling the safe use of less expensive flash storage in enterprise solid state disk implementations—and adopting a heterogeneous, 'co-opetition‘ based marketing strategy—SandForce has the potential to change an accepted 'norm‘ in the SSD market and thereby increase the rate of enterprise SSD adoption.   Download full version

SandForce Enterprise Solid State Drive Processor with DuraClass Technology

SSDs Come of Age

James E. Bagley, Consulting Analyst,                       and Deni Connor, Principal Analyst

Storage Strategies NOW

The Billion Dollar Bet is when (not if) Solid State Drives (SSDs) will be the primary high speed storage in enterprise and mobile computer applications. SandForce has moved that date much closer than conventional wisdom would predict.   Download full version

SandForce Emerges to Reshape SSD Landscape

SSD processor promises speed, endurance, multi-NAND support

TRENDFOCUS

• Venture-funded start-up aims to improve performance and endurance on both SLC and MLC-based SSDs
• Single-chip processor shuns DRAM buffer to reduce cost
• Claims no NAND over-provisioning or daily write limitation while maintaining performance
• TRENDFOCUS analysis: SandForce’s claims, if validated, should help to drive SSD adoption
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Profiles with paid downloads

SandForce Enters the Enterprise-Grade SSD Market With a Unique Processor

Joseph Unsworth

Gartner

The most critical component in any solid-state drive is the controller logic. SandForce is making its debut as a NAND flash processor supplier, claiming to enable robust, enterprise-grade SSD performance and reliability for multilevel cell or single-level cell flash from major flash manufacturers.   ($) Gartner Membership Required

SMART Modular Technologies Selects SandForce Processor

Jeff Janukowicz

IDC

Sep 2009; Doc # 220195; Product Flash

This IDC Flash analyzes SMART Modular Technologies' (or SMART's) announcement that it has selected the SandForce enterprise SF-1500 controller for use in its next-generation solid state drive (SSD). This Flash also evaluates the impact of the announcement and how these products are likely to be positioned and accepted within the industry.   ($) IDC Membership Required