OCZ Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based storage solutions and memory products, announced today a partnership with SandForce, which will enable OCZ's next- generation of mainstream and enterprise solid state drives to feature SandForce's highly-anticipated SSD processor family. According to the San Jose, California-based company, the collaboration with SandForce should enable customers to benefit from improved performance, reliability, endurance, and power efficiency.

 

“OCZ is committed to delivering SSD solutions to our enterprise clients and also has a strong following for our consumer solid state products; partnering with SandForce enables us to offer an even more robust offering to both these markets,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. “Together with SandForce we are focused on making enterprise-class MLC-based SSDs which offer excellent reliability and performance coupled with superior total cost of ownership for all our customers.”

 

Based on SandForce's SF-1500 and SF-1200 SSD processors and MLC (multi-level cell) and SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory, the upcoming OCZ SSDs will be available in both 3Gb/s SATA or 6Gb/s SAS interfaces. In addition, storage capacities will range from 50GB to 400GB, providing customers with a wider choice for their next-generation storage solutions. According to OCZ, both consumer and enterprise customers should benefit from the integration of the new SandForce controllers.

 

“OCZ has a proven track record in the design and manufacture of solid state drives and is in a distinctive position to deliver SSDs to both the enterprise and consumer space,” said Thad Omura, VP of marketing at SandForce. “SandForce SSD Processors reliably enable the usage of low cost, MLC-based SSDs in volume, mainstream enterprise applications.”

 

No availability or pricing details have been made official, but the company said that new product announcement would be made in the upcoming weeks, as well as the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.