The SandForce processors will offer native encryption and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with up to 32 commands at one time. The also include Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) Command Transport capabilities. NCQ optimizes the order in read and write commands are executed by the drive. SMART monitors and reports on a drive's health in order to anticipate possible failures.

OCZ's various SSD lines currently use controllers from vendors such as Indilinx, Samsung and, until recently, JMicron. A spokesperson said the company has mostly stopped using the JMicron controller . OCZ still uses JMicron controllers in its Solid series of SSDs, but it plans to discontinue that line and replace it with the Solid II series that uses an Indilinx controller.

"Going forward we won't have any new JMicron-based drives though, just what we have left in the channel," a spokesperson said.

JMicron said it has updated the firmware in its controllers, which it said has solved any problems that had cause drive failures.