Intel 510 series SSD

[flamenko]

The key to the Crucial is that they, and others are becoming more transparent in expected SSD life. I believe the average calculation is 40GB a day for 5 years which is still a heck of a feat for ANY consumer. Marvell can then account for lifespan with the consumer and maybe even enterprise as we now realize that servers do much less writing than originally believed.

They key would then be to be able to supply a enterprise or 'enthusiast' level ssd with a significantly longer lifespan which Sandforce seems to have done. As much as we like to kick them in the stomach for their success, their progress in just over a year have been amazing and this can be seen with their new controller.

Many are not aware but it is absolutely impossible for any company not using compression to match their performance. It cannot be done simply because parallel read/write performance (as with the new controllers) can only be accomplished with a write amplification of under 1/1. This has only been accomplished by Sandforce who then steps it up even further with 256 bit AES encryption.

Believe me, I am not pwned by Sandforce at all and, in fact, heard it when I let out articles advising the consumer (and some enterprise clients) that their SF-1200 and SF-1500 were exactly the same controller physically, as are the new SF-2200 and SF-2500 controllers. This was followed by later articles of Sandforces releasing of firmware that significantly upgraded the performance of their drive without announcement. This was only seen in ssd refresh and new drives and not avail in a public firmware update (to my knowledge).

My interest is key in ability of the controller and I really think that Intel got caught which was evident in that roadmap. Why would you put out that drive when others were stepping up significantly? There were no SATA 3 designs on the table then by Intel. Intel then had the same stroke of genius as did many others and invested in both Marvell and Sandforce. The key here is, IMHO, the Sandforce drive is most compatible with the Intel 25nm chips and thats when the introduction will be....right along with the rest.

Just a rant of some senile old guy eheh and by the way...I just laid out my next Intel/Sandforce SSD article here without holding back.