G.Skill Announces New SandForce-powered SSDs
Looking for a SandForce-powered SSD? Another one is about to hit the market.
G.Skill has revealed three new capacities to its Phoenix Pro series SSD in 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models.
The key magic behind these drives is the SandForce SF-1200 SSD controller that's been tuned for a 4k random write speed up to 50,000 IOPS.
"After impressing the G.Skill engineering team, the extremely high performance of the Phoenix Pro 40GB drives in RAID 0 offers the ultimate price : performance package, along with the additional benefits of SSDs." said Benson Chun, Senior Product Manager at G.Skill.
Curious to know how two Phoenix Pro 40GB drives perform in RAID 0? Check it:

Sadly, no pricing or availability yet, but hopefully that increasing competition between SandForce drives will help out the consumer.

The new generation arrives and I hope this will reduce the prices
also we have to wait to see the new generation from Intel and other companies to get a good picture of the performance we can get.
But this start to become interesting...
But good product.
When SATA II is saturated. Until you use up all of SATA II's bandwidth, then there's not much point using SATA III.
really? those write speeds are weak? you dont know what your talking about, they are still amazing.
SATA II actually is saturated at about 375 GB/s. I mean, look at that, and look at other ssds. I think its time
wat
384MB/s is SATA II's theoretical max throughput.
yup, i must try that one on my ISP "HEY, WHERE IS MY 8GB INTERNET??""Sir, its 8MB""whatever.."
Intel still edges out with the Random Read performance as king. All other aspects of course it is trailing behind the new stuff.
Intel is leading the market of SSD's. They are the first ones to drop prices and increase competition, and they are releasing their new 25nm[?] SSD's at the end of the year, and today's 80gb is suppsoed to be replaced by a 160gb... That will lower prices TREMENDOUSLY
I love G-Skill but not at this pathetic write speeds slower than Sata II .
Sata II avg 260MB/s read and write with bursts upto 285MB/s so why waist money on this slow write speed drive ?
OWC released a 40gb for $99.99
"Industry leading sustained Read AND Write speeds over 260MB/s (with peak speeds up to 285MB/s)"
http://techpowerup.com/129308/OWC_Announces_the_Most_Affordable_SandForce-Driven_SSD_40_GB_Mercury_Pro_Under_$100.html