14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that SandForce is one of the companies with cause to celebrate now that it discovered just how many solid state drive controller chips it managed to ship over the course of last year.
Solid state drives have been gaining traction over the past several months, especially thanks to their increased speeds and capacities and in spite of their prices, which are quite massive compared to those of HDDs.
SandForce is a supplier of controller chips for such storage devices and is actually quite well known on this market, as its processors enable very high read and write speeds.
Another asset of the SandForce controllers is that the difference between the read speed and the writing rate is actually quite small, compared to competing solutions.
It is this popularity that enabled the company to sell over 1 million SF-1500 and SF-1200 chips during their first year of existence alone, even though they were only used in high-end storage devices.
“We designed the SandForce SSD Processors to kickstart the SSD market by bringing enterprise-class performance and longevity to SSDs made with cost-effective commodity MLC flash, and that’s exactly what has happened,” said Michael Raam, President and CEO for SandForce.
“SSD manufacturers building products for enterprise, client, and industrial, applications are using SandForce SSD Processors with the unique DuraClass technology to bring out solutions that outperform the competition and meet or exceed the needs of each of these market segments,” he added.
“We anticipate our shipment volumes to increase by several multiples as the value proposition of SSDs based on our technology further proliferate into the mainstream market,” Raam went on to saying.
“SandForce-based SSDs have received accolades from leading reviewers, winning the company designs at many leading SSD suppliers, so it’s not surprising that they have so quickly achieved the one million unit milestone,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis.
“Technologies like DuraClass, that allow enterprise-class SSDs to use commodity MLC flash, have really helped to put this company on the map.”