An internal security audit by LSI discovered that the world famous SandForce 256-bit AES encryption of LSI Flash Storage Processors (FSP) has never been, and is not presently enabled in SandForce SSDs, as stated by LSI SandForce representatives today. Fret not, however, as 128-bit encryption is still in place and, unique to SandForce, the SandForce SSDs are the only ones …
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LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit: SandForce Pairs With Toshiba 24nm NAND Flash Memory
While at the LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit this week, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to spend a little time with SandForce. Their display showcased the combination of the SF-2000 series processor with Toshiba’s newest 24nm NAND flash memory, thus pushing the SSD fold just a bit further. The inclusion of Toshiba TH58TEG8D2HBA8C memory in consumer SSDs means lower prices and, …
Read More »The SSD Review Computex Taipei Update: SuperTalent Showcases SandForce Driven Flash Drive
Having announced the only USB3 Flash Drive SSD at Computex Taipei, SuperTalent was no stranger to innovation and trust us when we tell you that this flash drive is pure SSD through and through. Although we brought the news to you first at CES in January, the RC8 was initially believed to contain 3Xnm NAND flash memory, however, the release …
Read More »The SSD Review Computex Taipei Update: Memoright Introduces 800GB SSD and Their Own Controller
One of our particular highlights of coming to Computex was the opportunity to finally meet some long time friends, the first being Charles Chou of Memoright. Our relationship with Memoright goes back almost to day one of SSDs as we know them. As great as it was to finally meet Charles, we were very impressed with, not only their product …
Read More »Intel SSD Roadmap Surfaces Depicting 520 ‘Cherryville’ with Familiar SandForce Capacities
An Intel ‘Sandforce Driven’ SSD you say? Its almost like a play from a playbook but, once again, someone seems to have gotten their hands on an Intel Roadmap which discusses upcoming SSD releases. All in all we may be seeing up to 5 releases by years end but there is one particularly interesting release in the bunch as shown …
Read More »SandForce Unleashes SF-2200 Processors For Blazing SSD Performance at 500MB/s
This morning, SandForce officially releases their SF-2200 series processors to manufacturers which are capable of parallel transfer speeds of 500MB/s read and write. It is hard to believe that SandForce only opened their doors just over a year ago and their impact has changed the way we are looking at solid state drives today. Earlier this year, I made a …
Read More »OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – RAID 0 Becomes Pointless
A quick search on the internet defines Goliath as being of colossal power or achievement. As much as we are going to introduce you to a new age in solid state drives with this pre-release review of the OCZ Vertex 240GB SATA 3 SSD, the name is as suitable for SandForce as it is for this drive itself. Quite frankly, …
Read More »SandForce Raises The Bar to Partner Toshiba 32nm NAND In SSDs
SandForce® Inc., the pioneer of SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors that enable standard NAND Flash deployment in enterprise, client, and industrial computing applications, today announced the demonstration of the companys SF-2000 SSD Processors in 6 Gigabit (Gb) SATA SSDs incorporating Toshibas 32 nanometer (nm) eMLC Flash memory at the Storage Networking World conference in Dallas, TX, this week. Toshiba Enterprise …
Read More »OWC Announces SSD Updates On Heels Of SandForce SF-2000 Series Release
Right on the heels of SandForces game changing announcement of their SF-2000 SATA 3 processors earlier today, OWC is the first manufacturer to announce the new SF-2000 processor in their enterprise and consumer release products. It seems that the announcement of a single SSD wasn’t enough as OWC is showing complete confidence by announcing the early 2011 release of, not only 8 …
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