The Sandforce SF-1200 controller has been getting a lot of attention lately and there are no shortages of SSD's featuring this high-performance controller although there has been quite a bit of confusion surrounding firmware versions as we have written about; much to the chagrin of Sandforce I might add. Many of the early Sandforce based drives also had significant portions of the available storage provisioned for drive maintenance and performance preservation which left the cost per usable GB a little high for the tastes of most consumers. As of this writing, we could only find pricing for the F120 online at Amazon for $350 which comes out to $2.91 per usable GB but is far below the $4 - $5 per usable GB we saw with the F100 & F200 drives. Definitely moving in the right direction.