Is every SandForce SSD-controller bad?

[MatejAustria]

Eveyone hates SandForce controllers but are the other ones better?

Example: SandForce SF-2281 vs Marvell 88SS9189

[FireFox]

Everyone hates Sandforce? I thought they made good controllers?

[H4X3R]

Everyone hates Sandforce? I thought they made good controllers?

[Syfes]

Nope they're alright. A couple years ago there were some drives with a specific generation of sandforce controllers that had issues (mostly OCZ drives I believe? Vertex 2 or 3, can't remember which one exactly), but they're just as reliable compared to most other controllers these days.

[It's me!]

Yes. 

[Stadiz]

Nope they're alright. A couple years ago there were some drives with a specific generation of sandforce controllers that had issues (mostly OCZ drives I believe? Vertex 2 or 3, can't remember which one exactly), but they're just as reliable compared to most other controllers these days.

^ Correct!

I have worked with vertex 3 drives, they were the only ones that had this type of "problem".

(easy to fix btw)

But the internet makes a "problem" an apocalypse.

[Briggsy]

But the internet makes a "problem" an apocalypse.

 

they should rename the internet to the perpetual echo chamber.

[MatejAustria]

they should rename the internet to the perpetual echo chamber.

[TheMcSame]

Sandforce controllers are fine, they just have a higher latency or something along those lines IIRC (I'm sure someone else will know). I believe they had a few issues a few years back but they're fine now.

[Dimwitted]

There are two issues with the Sandforce controller... 1) it's a compression controller. To get its numbers it compresses the data on the fly. Fine, except not all data is compressable and that slows down things a ton. That Marvell that was quoted gets its numbers from uncompressed data. It's far more consistent.

2) The controller is getting old. Sandforce has been in trouble for at least a year, being bounced around by a few owners. They haven't released anything new in a while and times a wasting. Phison has a new controller out that looks really interesting and that might put even more pressure on the SF team.

 

Put all that together and the Sandforce controller is, at best, a 2nd tier unit. It's not bad, but there's better out there and not having a SF is no penalty.