SandForce SF-2000 Series SSD Controllers Announced – 500MB/s Read & Write

SandForce today announced the availability of the SF-2000 Family of SSD Processors optimized for SSDs deployed in mission-critical Enterprise and Industrial computing applications. These chips feature a 6 Gigabit-per-second SATA host interface, industry applauded DuraClass Technology, an unprecedented 60,000 sustained random read/write IOPS and sustained sequential read/write performance of 500 Megabytes per second. In addition to state-of-the-art performance, reliability, security, and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) connectivity enhancements, the SF-2000 family supports single-level, multi-level, and enterprise multi-level cell (SLC, MLC, & eMLC) NAND Flash families from Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung, and Toshiba with its high-speed ONFi2 and Toggle Flash interface. These controllers offer some serious performance improvements over the SF-1200 and SF-1500 series that are on the market today. Later this morning we will have an in-depth look at the new SF-2000 series for you, so stay tuned!