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    New Increased Capacity ?SandForce Driven? SSDs

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by WhatsThePoint, Feb 24, 2012.

  1. WhatsThePoint

    WhatsThePoint Notebook Virtuoso

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    Up until this morning, the most recognizable characteristic of a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD was the fact that it’s capacities were always 60, 120, 240 or 480GB, unlike the standard of 64, 128, 256 and 512GB.

    That was then and this is now. This morning, ADATA has released the first ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD that will provide the consumer with 7% added capacity, before formatting, now equaling the capacity points that we typically see in SSDs that do not use SF processors in their storage. These include Crucial/Micron, Intel previous to the 520 Series, Samsung, Toshiba and limited SSDs using JMicron and Phison controllers.

    LSI Releases Code To Manufacturers - New Increased Capacity 'SandForce Driven' SSDs Hit The Streets - The SSD Review
     
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    The only surprise is that it took this long - didn't the SF-2xxx controller provide OEMs with the ability to completely disable spare area and RAISE from the get go?
     
    Peon, Feb 25, 2012
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    Give me "reduced cost" SSD's before anything else. Since I've been looking for some inexpensive 60-64GB SSD's I find posts from a year ago that were selling drives for $50-60. Now the same drives are all $100+.
     
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    If you're willing to accept a drive with a Toshiba controller, then it's possible to find a $50-60 64 GB SSD if you shop around and look for sales. Otherwise the next big price drop is slated for late 2012/early 2013, when SSDs start using 20nm NAND.
     
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