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Company Overview
SandForce® SSD Processors use DuraClass™ technology with RAISE™ and patented and patent pending DuraWrite™ to drive ubiquitous deployment of volume flash memory into primary and I/O intensive data storage applications. SandForce Driven™ SSDs dramatically optimize mission-critical application reliability, IT infrastructure ROI, green power preservation, and everyday computing user experiences. Founded in 2006, SandForce is funded by leading venture capital investors and first tier storage companies.
Industry Megatrends
SandForce is fueled by a number of trends in the industry today. The drive to protect the environment is forcing data centers to perform more work with less overall energy. Moore's Law continues to project higher performance, multi-core CPUs demanding faster access to information. As the world demands more content rich information, the need for faster streaming data is quickly expanding. The sale of notebook/mobile computers will eclipse desktop computers in the next year driving greater demand for longer battery life. The exploding demand for flash NAND technology has driven the price down to affordable levels for mass adoption. These trends accelerate the need for SandForce SSD Processors in the estimated 200M+ storage drives used in enterprise and client computing applications.
SSD Advantages vs. HDDs
SSDs represent the first revolutionary advance in drive technology in the last 50 years. There are a number of significant advantages of SSDs over hard disk drives. SSDs have no moving parts and as a result have higher reliability and durability. They store data on flash memory which has up to 100x better performance. SSDs use much less power for the work performed.
Flash Memory Limitations
NAND flash memory has a limited life and as the technology advances in density and process geometry, its endurance and reliability degrade. Simple SSD controllers try to circumvent these limits with inadequate approaches. All of them work to increase the effective endurance, but it comes at a higher overall solution cost or reduced performance.
The SandForce Solution
SandForce has designed innovative and differentiated solutions for standard NAND flash memory to reliably operate in enterprise storage environments. SandForce SSD Processors with DuraClass technology provide SSDs with best-in-class reliability, performance, and power efficiency.