The OCZ Technology Group has announced today a new agreement with SandForce, a provider of SSD controller IP and ASIC designs.

“Based on the highly-anticipated SandForce SSD Processor family, OCZ’s new line of SSDs will be the pinnacle of storage options designed to optimize complex IT infrastructures as well as the computing experiences of everyday consumers,” the release reads.

The release indicates that OCZ will employ the SandForce SF-1200 and SF-1500 NAND controllers in upcoming products using both MLC and SLC cells. OCZ expects SandForce-based drives to arrive in a range of capacities from 50-400GB on SATA 3Gbps and SATA 6Gbps interfaces.

“OCZ is committed to delivering SSD solutions to our enterprise clients and also has a strong following for our consumer solid state products; partnering with SandForce enables us to offer an even more robust offering to both these markets,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. “Together with SandForce we are focused on making enterprise-class MLC-based SSDs which offer excellent reliability and performance coupled with superior total cost of ownership for all our customers.”

SandForce is run by former NVIDIA executives and takes funding from at least two top-tier storage firms. The outfit previously made the news back in April with the announcement of their SF-1000 controller. The company promised that the ASIC would boost SSD read/write performance on 4k blocks to 250MBps, where today’s drives are lucky to escape 50MBps, and don’t reach full velocity until 512k blocks are used. The SF-1000 controller was also alleged to offer a 100-fold boost in MLC NAND durability, and a 250-fold IOPS per watt.

Though neither SandForce nor OCZ have offered hard numbers on the improvements a SandForce-based SSD will offer over the current crop of Indilinx-powered disks, any focus on increasing the reliability and performance of MLC disks  in the enterprise will surely benefit consumers as well.