Sand Force Introduces Slim SATA drive that allows for greater flash capacity

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http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=36

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/...d=news_view&newsId=20100816005592&newsLang=en

The Slim SATA (MO297A) storage drive form factor consumes 6 to 12 times less volume than traditional 2.5-inch drives and was standardized by JEDEC specifically for SSD applications without an outer case as spinning media moving components do not need to be supported. The single-chip architecture of the SF-1000 SSD Processor family eliminates the use of external DRAM caches, differentiating it from other enterprise and client SSD controllers. As a result, SandForce is the only SSD controller solution that supports the density of six flash packages (up to 384GB physical capacity with 20 nanometer-class MLC NAND) on the Slim SATA form factor, while delivering 30,000 random 4 Kilobyte (KB) read / write IOPS (I/O operations per second) in a one watt power envelope.

 

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http://www.vikingmodular.com/news/releases/081610.pdf

Here is another company that released a new Slim SATA SSD today.