Sandforce Enterprise-Class SSD 2500/2600 processors deliver double performance

SandForce has just announced a new enterprise-class SF-2000 SSD processor family including the SF-2500 and SF-2600, which deliver approximately twice the performance of the company’s existing SF-1500 SSD processor. The new SSD processors start with SATA III 6Gbps host interfaces that have twice the maximum bandwidth of the SF-1500’s SATA II interface. Maximum sequential read/write performance is now rated at 500/500 Mbytes/sec, up from 260/260 Mbytes/sec, and maximum read/write IOPS performance is also doubled from 30K/30K to 60K/60K. The new SSD processors support more and faster Flash memory interfaces as well: async, Toggle-Mode, and ONFi2 at transfer rates as fast as 166 Mtransfers/sec. ECC protection is boosted to accommodate 30nm- and 20nm-class Flash devices, up from 24 bits per 512 bytes to 55 bits per 512 bytes. Encryption capability has also been boosted to 256-bit AES, plus support for the existing 128-bit AES encryption.