SandForce-based Solid State Drives Demonstrate Record Breaking Price-Performance on IBM POWER7™ Systems
SandForce Brings Affordable, Reliable Solid State Drive Technology to Enterprise Customers
SARATOGA, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) SandForce ® Inc., the pioneer of SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors that enable standard NAND Flash deployment in enterprise and client computing applications, today announced a record performance benchmark of IBM (NYSE:IBM) POWER7™ systems with SandForce-based SSDs.
The benchmark results showed dramatic improvements in processing efficiency and price/performance, using "multi-level cell" (MLC) flash technology. Read the full article at: www.businesswire.com
Memory Startup Gets Vote of Confidence from IBM
By Don Clark
A shift from disk drives to chips to store computer data has been going on for several years. SandForce, a Silicon Valley startup that has been aiding that evolution, has been put to the test by International Business Machines and seems to have passed.
SandForce was founded to help address a limitation with the underlying chip technology, flash memory. Such chips, a mainstay of products like iPods and digital cameras, have big advantages over disk drives. Most obviously, there are no spinning disks or other moving parts to break down, a major cause of computer crashs. Data can also be retrieved much more quickly from flash memory than from disk drives. Read the full article: blogs.wsj.com
