Analysts Quotes

Read what industry analysts are saying about the impact SandForce technology will have on the SSD market.

  • “Vendors who can balance read and write performance for an SSD have a real advantage in the market place. Whatever the secret sauce of such a design, balanced performance is a significant step forward and an example of innovations happening in the flash SSD market.”
  • Gene Ruth, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
  • ESG"It seems clear that solid state storage is going to be a game-changing data center technology. The speed of its adoption into enterprise environments can only be accelerated by the emergence of a choice of innovative implementations such as that from SandForce."
  • Mark Peters, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
  • Forward-Insight “DuraClass Technology from SandForce promises to dramatically improve the reliability, endurance and performance of systems employing MLC NAND flash memories to enable more cost effective SSDs for enterprise-class applications which had previously been the domain of SLC NAND flash memory.”
  • Greg Wong, Founder and Principal Analyst, Forward Insights
  • Gartner  “In spite of a deluge of offerings, SSD growth has been hindered due to confusion and concerns regarding endurance, reliability, performance and prices. Products that can alleviate these quality concerns through superior flash management will play a vital role in the enterprise-grade and PC-grade SSD categories.”
  • Joseph Unsworth, Research Director, Gartner, Inc.
  • IDC   “Products like the SF-1000 Family can be major catalysts for increasing SSD adoption in the enterprise. These products should have a highly positive impact on efficiency and total-cost-of-ownership when used in IT applications such as virtualization, transactional databases, and automated financial trading – applications which can immediately benefit from the dramatic increase in performance and performance-per-watt that SSDs provide over HDDs.”
  • Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC
  • Objective Analysis   “By enabling the use of MLC flash memory and simultaneously eliminating the need for over-provisioning or daily use restrictions, the SandForce SSD Processor could significantly reduce the cost of SSD storage and make it much more broadly applicable.”
  • Jim Handy, Semiconductor Analyst, Objective Analysis
  • SSG-Now   “Even the best of today’s SSDs have trouble sustaining high write performance after the first hour or even a few minutes, but DuraClass technology from SandForce promises to end this deterioration to maintain the same high level of consistent write performance that enterprise users expect.”
  • Deni Connor, Principal Analyst, Storage Strategies Now
  • TrendFocus   “By significantly reducing write amplification, the SandForce SSD Processor promises to deliver significantly higher write performance than we have seen in any SSD drive to date.”
  • John Chen, Sr. Director, TRENDFOCUS
  • WFR   “DuraClass technology from SandForce could finally make SSD storage more reliable than hard drives, incorporate MLC flash in Enterprise with five-year life, and make the traditional flash benefits of faster access and lower power consumption a practical reality.”
  • Alan Niebel, Founder and CEO, Web-Feet Research