page_title: SandForce
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: SandForce / Products
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context_page_description: SandForce was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed flash memory controllers for solid-state drives. On January 4, 2012, SandForce was acquired by LSI Corporation and became the Flash Components Division of LSI. LSI was subsequently acquired by Avago Technologies on May 6, 2014 and on the 29th of that same month Seagate Technology announced its intention to buy LSI's Flash Components Division.
  SandForce was founded in 2006 by Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak. In April 2009, they announced their entrance into the solid-state drive market.
  SandForce did not sell complete solid-state drives, but rather flash memory controllers, called SSD processors, to partners who then built and sold complete SSDs to manufacturers, corporations, and end-users. However, another division of LSI used the SandForce SSD processor in the LSI Nytro PCIe product line. Zsolt Kerekes, an SSD Market Analyst and publisher of StorageSearch.com, said in 2011 that SandForce was the best-known maker of SSD controllers.
context_section_description: SandForce initially released a family split into enterprise (data center) and client (desktop)  computing applications. The SF-1500 was the enterprise product and the SF-1200 the client  product. Reference designs included  information to build and sell a complete product. In October 2010, SandForce introduced their second generation SSD controllers called the SF-2000 family  focused on enterprise applications. Enhancements included: SATA 3.0 (6 Gbit/s), faster speeds, security, and data protection features. 
  The client version of this second generation line was introduced in February 2011 with most of the same enhancements seen in the SF-2500.
  Announced in November 2013, the SF 3700 family of controllers supported  triple-level cell flash for higher capacity and NVM Express for improved performance at the high end. Sample engineering boards with the PCIe x4 (gen 2) model of this controller found 1,800 MB/sec read/write sequential speeds and 150K/80K random IOPS. A Kingston HyperX "prosumer" product using this controller was showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 and promised similar performance. Mushkin also showcased products using the SF 3700 series at CES, highlighting their M.2 Helix series up to 480GB (512GiB) and up to 2TB in for the 2.5 inch format.
  The SF 3700 family consists of:
  SF3719 — SATA 6Gbit/s + x2 PCIe; "entry level" product with identical connectivity but announced to have fewer firmware features than the "mainstream" SF3729; precise differences in features not yet disclosed
  SF3729 — SATA 6Gbit/s + x2 PCIe
  SF3739 — x4 PCIe (gen 2); support for optional battery or supercapacitor “full power fail” protection
  SF3759 — “full enterprise feature set” (no further details released yet)
  All these models are actually made of the same die (produced in a 40 nm process), an area of which goes unused in the lower-end products. The RAISE technology in the SF 3700 series was upgraded from protecting against a single page or block failure (in the previous series) to "multiple pages and blocks or up to a full die" with the so-called RAISE level 2. Additionally, the new chips reserve less than a full die for redundancy (so-called "fractional RAISE").
caption: SSD with SandForce 2281 Controller
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