MSI Entering SSD Business with SandForce-Driven Products

btarunr · Jul 12, 2012, 06:38 PM

While the PC enthusiast community know MSI more to be the people behind some quality motherboards, graphics cards, and notebooks, apart from a few lesser known product lines, the Taiwanese company has a few completely undocumented products. A "case" in point (mind the pun) is its Interceptor line of gaming PC cases, whose launch spread across early 2012, was completely undocumented by MSI public relations. Solid State Drives (SSDs) will soon be MSI's newest frontier, according to no less than LSI-SandForce.

Apparently, MSI has signed up LSI-SandForce as a provider of SSD controllers. The page on the company website that lists all "SandForce-Driven" SSDs includes a column for MSI (including its company logo), with the models column being marked "Coming Soon." This is not the first time MSI got involved with SSD. The company's high-end GT60/GT70 gaming notebooks come with a self-designed SSD RAID solution, that makes use of SanDisk-branded mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 configuration. We have sought more information from MSI.

slybunda · Jul 12, 2012, 07:50 PM

adds more failure prone ssd's to the mix.

Solidstate89 · Jul 12, 2012, 09:24 PM

Wow, yet ANOTHER SandForce SSD. What a shocker.

Frick · Jul 12, 2012, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slybunda

adds more failure prone ssd's to the mix.

How?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solidstate89

Wow, yet ANOTHER SandForce SSD. What a shocker.

More options is never bad.

cedrac18 · Jul 12, 2012, 10:03 PM

Yep prices will go down down down.

FreedomEclipse · Jul 12, 2012, 10:32 PM

SATURATED MARKET IS SATURATED!!!

on a lighter note - serious price drops incoming!!!!!

AthlonX2 · Jul 13, 2012, 12:36 AM

These drives will just be rebranded from another company like toshiba

1c3d0g · Jul 13, 2012, 01:38 AM

No point in these if they can't/won't develop their own firmware.

Elmo · Jul 13, 2012, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slybunda

adds more failure prone ssd's to the mix.

Your comment is juvenile . More competition is good , would gladly see more price drops in the near future

hhumas · Jul 13, 2012, 03:50 AM

good news .. maybe it decreases the prices

Frick · Jul 13, 2012, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1c3d0g

No point in these if they can't/won't develop their own firmware.

Sure there's a point. More options, more options, lower prices (hopefully), bigger chances to find good deals.

From a purely technological/performance standpoint there's little point though.

Homeles · Jul 13, 2012, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slybunda

adds more failure prone ssd's to the mix.

Better than disaster-prone HDDs.

yapchagi · Jul 15, 2012, 09:59 AM

wrong move on the sandforce. Wrong move.

Dj-ElectriC · Jul 15, 2012, 11:04 PM

I say - more competition the better. Don't really care for MSI's SSDs at this point.

Fourstaff · Jul 16, 2012, 12:33 AM

This post should have read "MSI printing stickers for Sandforce SSDs"

Johannesburg · Jul 24, 2012, 04:09 AM

I think the real story here is monster trying to sell SSDs as well.

I don't understand these people hahahahahahaha

Jul 12, 2012, 06:38 PM	#1
btarunr Editor & Senior Moderator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hyderabad, India Posts: 14,983 (7.29/day) Thanks: 788 Thanked 12,911 Times in 5,655 Posts System Specs	MSI Entering SSD Business with SandForce-Driven Products While the PC enthusiast community know MSI more to be the people behind some quality motherboards, graphics cards, and notebooks, apart from a few lesser known product lines, the Taiwanese company has a few completely undocumented products. A "case" in point (mind the pun) is its Interceptor line of gaming PC cases, whose launch spread across early 2012, was completely undocumented by MSI public relations. Solid State Drives (SSDs) will soon be MSI's newest frontier, according to no less than LSI-SandForce. Apparently, MSI has signed up LSI-SandForce as a provider of SSD controllers. The page on the company website that lists all "SandForce-Driven" SSDs includes a column for MSI (including its company logo), with the models column being marked "Coming Soon." This is not the first time MSI got involved with SSD. The company's high-end GT60/GT70 gaming notebooks come with a self-designed SSD RAID solution, that makes use of SanDisk-branded mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 configuration. We have sought more information from MSI. Last edited by btarunr; Jul 12, 2012 at 06:48 PM.

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Jul 12, 2012, 07:50 PM	#2
slybunda Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 18 (0.04/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	adds more failure prone ssd's to the mix.

Jul 12, 2012, 09:24 PM	#3
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Jul 13, 2012, 12:36 AM	#7
AthlonX2 Better Than You Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Toledo,Ohio Posts: 5,449 (2.24/day) Thanks: 730 Thanked 1,572 Times in 994 Posts System Specs	These drives will just be rebranded from another company like toshiba

Jul 13, 2012, 01:38 AM	#8
1c3d0g Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 615 (0.31/day) Thanks: 2,255 Thanked 47 Times in 38 Posts	No point in these if they can't/won't develop their own firmware.

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hhumas Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Islamabad Posts: 529 (0.76/day) Thanks: 170 Thanked 22 Times in 13 Posts System Specs	good news .. maybe it decreases the prices __________________ “http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=76372”

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