SandForce has announce the SF-2481 SSD processor which is designed especially for duty within Cloud-based environments. SandForce is hoping to strike a balance of the required performance and reliability of enterprise SSDs with low-cost MLC NAND. The SF-2481 helps to increase the endurance of MLC NAND by incorporating almost twice the error correction strength. Other software features like Predictive Failure Analysis capabilities and a new Media Health Test help drive an SSD’s reliability over its life in the enterprise.
SandForce has announce the SF-2481 SSD processor which is designed especially for duty within Cloud-based environments. SandForce is hoping to strike a balance of the required performance and reliability of enterprise SSDs with low-cost MLC NAND. The SF-2481 helps to increase the endurance of MLC NAND by incorporating almost twice the error correction strength. Other software features like Predictive Failure Analysis capabilities and a new Media Health Test help drive an SSD’s reliability over its life in the enterprise.
The SF-2481 will find its way to market quickly. While production volumes should occur in later this month, little engineering is required by SSD manufacturers to support the new processor as it’s drop-in compatible with the existing SF-2281 hardware. SandForce expects shipments from OEMs to occur after the final firmware build is complete in the next week or two.
These features combine with SandForce’s existing feature set which include:
- DuraWrite – enables the industry’s highest balanced performance, lowest write amplification, and most efficient garbage collection
- Balanced sequential read and write speeds of up to 500 MB/s
- Balanced random read and write speeds of up to 60,000 IOPS
- RAISE technology to protect user data from entirely lost sectors, pages and blocks
- Automatic double AES encryption equal to 300-bit protection with Secure Crypto-Erase control
- Enterprise-level SMART attributes (with the Media Health Test) to enable predictive failure analysis
- User configurable over provisioning to provide increased flexibility when balancing endurance with performance to further optimize individual cloud environments
SSDs using the SF-2400 family of processors will be available in capacities from 12GB to 512GB and are qualified with the latest 2Xnm Toggle NAND. Intel and Toshiba NAND will be the first used with the new processor.
SandForce has shipped over 3 million SSD processors in the client and enterprise SSD markets. LSI has announced the acquisition of SandForce, the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012.
