SandForce Announces 2nd Gen SSD Processors

[exfileme]

SandForce has officially announced the SF-2200 and SF-2100 SSD processors.

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[lashabane]

If SSD adoption grows as much as predicted, maybe we'll see an appropriate reduction in price. I certainly hope so.

 

[milktea]

Now we need a secure data wipe on these SSD processors.

 

[ares1214]

If these SSD are priced according to speed, the slower 2100 version could hit $1/GB, perhaps a little less!

 

[christop]

Hope they are not way overpriced.

 

[bison88]

[citation][nom]milktea[/nom]Now we need a secure data wipe on these SSD processors.[/citation]


Yeah I have to agree. It wasn't until about a year ago that I started taking advantage of secure wiping and encryption technology. Figure if I'm planning to run a network someday I should adopt similar procedures. More people should be concerned right now. There are some serious flaws with current SSD technology for home and even business use. This is all apart of its progress though but I couldn't imagine jumping on the ship just yet. The negatives still greatly outweigh the benefits IMO. They need to take a step back with speed which is already INCREDIBLY higher than any hard drive out there, and focus on areas that need serious improvement.

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]Yeah I have to agree. It wasn't until about a year ago that I started taking advantage of secure wiping and encryption technology. Figure if I'm planning to run a network someday I should adopt similar procedures. More people should be concerned right now. There are some serious flaws with current SSD technology for home and even business use. This is all apart of its progress though but I couldn't imagine jumping on the ship just yet. The negatives still greatly outweigh the benefits IMO. They need to take a step back with speed which is already INCREDIBLY higher than any hard drive out there, and focus on areas that need serious improvement.[/citation]

Indeed... like the price, storage capacity, and lifespan. If these don't improve, most people won't have any reason to use an SSD drive. I consider myself quite the power user, but the money spent on these could easily be used on components that really matter in heavy computing... like next gen games and Folding@Home.

That's not to say that there isn't any benefit to using these drives, it's just that the price doesn't justify the additional worry of storage and MTBF.

 

[WR2]

Sweet performance. Slightly scary price.

 

[ProDigit10]

hey guys (editor), I'm running this webpage from a reasonable cheap laptop (with a reasonable cheap screen), and I can not distinguish hyperlinks from normal text, as they appear to be very dark blue (unless I go very close to my screen).
I wondered if you want hyperlinks on the page, if you guys could make it a tad more clear by making them a bit lighter. I'm not saying light blue, but we all know how TN LCD's don't really give us more than 256.000 colors, and with image and screen optimization, hyperlinks are fairly indistinguishable from regular text.

 

[RazberyBandit]

^
Or also underline them? That would definitely make them stand-out.

 

[AMD_pitbull]

I really would love to get the performance these things have to offer, but, they really need to get a drop before I'll truly consider it. 2 500gb's in Raid-0 do enough to justify keeping that setup for a while. Oh well, though, right boys? Since these guys don't care about dropping the prices to something more of us would be willing to spend, guess guys like Intel, AMD, Asus, etc will get our cash. Meh lol

 

[robisinho]

does anyone know how often they cycle releases? Is this the controller from Sandforce for the next year or the next 2 years?

 

[cybersans]

the early bird bought this overpriced device will help manufacturer to cover their RnD cost. and they also help mid-range user to buy it in the future when manufacturer get their RnD costs and start to lower the price 😀

 

[tavix]

I'm interested on a PCI-EX varian also. The PCI-EX is much faster even than SATA 6...