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Aitech, founded in 1983, and headquartered in Chatsworth,
Calif., manufactures a range of rugged VMEbus and cPCI SBCs and related I/O and
storage cards and modules for rugged applications. They are only COTS
supplier to maintain true Mil-Spec -55°C to +85°C temperature range
for all products
see also:-
Aitech
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- Aitech offers a family of
PMC
form factor flash SSD.
It also offers soldered in SSD options on some of its rugged SBCs.
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In February 2010 -
Aitech launched a new
model in its family of
PMC/XMC
SSDs. The M224 has 128GB
capacity, and hardware RAID
options which support the onboard flash array. Sustained sequential R/W speeds
are 170MB/s and 120MB/s respectively. The M224 is available in air-cooled
and conduction-cooled versions as well as in 3 levels of
ruggedization
depending on shock, vibration and humidity requirements. OS support includes
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| Fast Purge SSDs when
"Rugged"
won't do |
| The need for fast and
secure data erase - in which vital parts of a flash SSD or its data are
destroyed in seconds - has always been a requirement in military projects.
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Although many industrial
SSD vendors offer products with extended "rugged" operating
environment capabilities - and even
notebooks SSDs come
with encryption - it's the availability of fast data purge which
differentiates "truly secure" SSDs which can be deployed in
sensitive applications.
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| this way to the Petabyte
SSD |
In 2016 there will be
just 3 types of
SSD in the datacenter.
One
of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.
It will replace the
last remaining strongholds of
hard drives in the
datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs
and operational advantages. |
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The new model of the
datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which
will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
visionary article. | | | |
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| Can you believe "reliability"
in an SSD ad? |
Editor:-
Reliability is an
important factor in many applications which use
SSDs.... but can you trust
an SSD brand just because it claims to be reliable?
As we've seen in
recent years - in the rush for the
SSD market bubble -
many design teams which previously had little or no experience of SSDs were
tasked with designing such products - and the result has been successive waves
of flaky SSDs and
SSDs whose specifications
couldn't be relied on to remain stable and in many products quickly
degraded in customer sites. |
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As part of an education
series for SSD product marketers - this case study describes how one company -
which didn't have the conventional background to start off with - managed to
equate their brand of SSD with reliability in the minds of designers in the
embedded systems market. ...read the article | | | |
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