Both Indilinx and SandForce have shown their might through powerful Solid State Drive controllers, though they may be bandwidth limited. SATA 3.0 Gbps has a hardware limitation of around 280MB/s and this limitation not change until near the end of the year. Crucial has shown that SATA 6.0 Gbps can be a blessing for SSDs, but sadly it will be the only one with that support for a long time.
According to Bit-Tech both Indilinx and SandForce are planning their respective SATA 6.0 Gbps launches for Q4 2010. Whether any other actor like Intel or JMicron will beat them to the market is uncertain, but otherwise it looks like Micron and the Crucial RealSSD will be one of few SATA 6.0 Gbps drives this year.
Micron is said to be licensing its SATA 6.0 Gbps controller to A-DATA, as it mentioned during CeBIT back in March. The new Micron SSD is expected to see the light of day at Computex 2010.
A-DATA’s SandForce S59
A-DATA decided to give AMD a pad on the back by pointing out that its SB850 southbridge brings native SATA 6.0 Gbps support, making the best choice today, since third-party solutions can’t reach the same level of performance.
