Quote Originally Posted by Wendy View Post
Not every ES (engineering sample) will make it to a full retail product, but i'm pretty confident that the 520 will be based on an SF controller.

Custom firmware?
Only in as far as SF allows customization for Sandforce partners.
Intel is quite a "special" partner in this case... They've been working with SandForce for the past 10 months on the firmware. Pure speculation from my side is that this firmware will be Intel exclusive but we shall see. Anyway I have full faith in Intel when it comes to SSD's so perhaps (finally) I can recommend a SF-2281 SSD to people.