SandForce was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed flash memory controllers for solid-state drives (SSDs).

[3] Alex Naqvi and Rado Danilak had experience from companies including Marvell, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Toshiba, and SanDisk when they started SandForce.

[9] Finally in October 2010, SandForce closed a series D round of $25 million led by Canaan Partners and included the existing investors.

[10] The board of directors included Carl Amdahl (General Partner at DCM and son of Gene Amdahl), Ryan Floyd (Storm Ventures), S. "Sundi" Sundaresh (former President and CEO of Adaptec), Jackie Yang (managing director at TransLink Capital), and Eric Young (Canaan Partners).

[8] At the time the company emerged from stealth mode, other solid-state drives in the market were using the more expensive single-level cell technology.

Other features include error detection and correction technology known as "RAISE" (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements)[8] which improves the disk failure rates,[14] and AES encryption[6] which works in the background and is completely automatic.

SandForce initially released a family split into enterprise (data center) and client (desktop) computing applications.

[18] Announced in November 2013, the SF 3700 family of controllers supported triple-level cell flash for higher capacity[19] and NVM Express for improved performance at the high end.

[20] Sample engineering boards with the PCIe x4 (gen 2) model of this controller found 1,800 MB/sec read/write sequential speeds and 150K/80K random IOPS.

[21] A Kingston HyperX "prosumer" product using this controller was showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 and promised similar performance.

[24] The SF 3700 family consists of:[23] All these models are actually made of the same die (produced in a 40 nm process), an area of which goes unused in the lower-end products.