I tried countless drivers and nothing helps. Besides, those ssds are on different systems (from core2duo to 1155) and all experience same bsods (albeit with different frequency).

Its defenetly a problem with ssd. Non sandforce drives cause me no trouble.

Its a broken design, that they managed to patch somehow in firmware. Its still broken, it just happen to work okay on most systems.

Hi Benjamin,

We produce more of the 250GB & 500GB rather than the 240GB & 480GB which allows tighter margins on the respected capacities. We wanted to offer every option for consumers who intend to setup a RAID configuration to match a capacity they already own. We’ve had great success with the SandForce controller thus far, but we have a 256GB & 512GB capacity option coming to market in the next few weeks which will feature the same Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller as our 960GB & 1TB SSD.

Thanks!

Some of your problems sound like driver problems. I’ve read
countless ssd forums that say change this driver to that driver, use the latest Intel driver, don’t use the latest Intel driver, roll back to the old driver, maybe that’s your problems. I don’t think every Intel driver works on all systems.
But, I use the windows standard msahci driver, and the Amd raid driver for my motherboard. And when it works I leave it alone. If it’s not broke don’t fix it.

Well, i had struggles with every single sandforce drive i had. From freezing to bsods (still get those). All from different manufacturers.

Problem with Sandforce is, its filled with flaws. For example, _all_ of them experience reduction of write speeds over time.
Just do a test on a freshly secure erased drive and do the same test again in a few weeks time. Obviously test with incompressible data.

Than there is broken encryption, but thats not that big of an issue, since its still 128bit.

And infamous bsods. Yeah, they sorta patched those back in 2012, but they still present themselfs in certain configurations. I was lucky enough to get them on all 3 at some point.

Then there is broke power circuitry, which directly results in bsods.

Waking from sleep also presents issue for some.

First generation had incomplete sata spec implementation, which directly resulteted in incompatability with newer chipsets (like haswell).

Also compression (which in itself isnt all that bad) gives great oppurtunity to for manufactureres to cheat and do bait-and-switch tactis (like kingston).

The list goes on. Presonally i’ll never trust sandforce again.

I have 7 Sandforce ssds all going strong so far with no problems or failures. 3 Kingston V300 before they did there infamous nand switch. 2 PNY Pro, and 2 Mushkin deluxe. 120gb to 480gb, one drive single, the rest in raid 0 for a couple of years now. I don’t understand why people bash Sandforce ssds. Furthermore
I have not had to upgrade not one of their firmware’s, not one!!!! If they start to fail then I might change my mind. I still think that if a ssd fails its bad nand not the controller. And the read speed and consistency bandwidth for Sandforce ssds are at the top of the charts as long as you use premium nand synchronous or toggle.