SandForce Rolls Out Stupid-Fast SF-2000 Controller

As if SandForce's solid state drive controllers weren't sexy enough, the company this week released its fastest version yet, the SF-2000 series.

How fast is it? Try twice as peppy as the company's first-gen SF-1000, which was no slouch in its own right. Much of the credit goes to the mighty SATA 6Gb/s interface, which SandForce had the good sense to employ in its latest controllers. Tha means you can expect drives boasting up to 500MB/s read and write speeds.

Well played, SandForce. Now if only drive makers would do something about that price-per-gigabyte ratio, we'd ditch our hard drives faster than a prom date who refuses to...nevermind.