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Aitech Defense Systems

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

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  • 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.

Aitech - recent milestones from SSD market history

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 VxWorks, Windows and Linux.
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Data Integrity Challenges in flash SSD Design
Editor:- October 16, 2009 - StorageSearch.com published a new article called - Data Integrity Challenges in flash SSD Design - written by Kent Smith Senior Director, Product Marketing, SandForce.

Since bursting onto the SSD scene in April 2009, SandForce has achieved remarkably high reader popularity. How did a company whose business is designing SSD controllers achieve this? - especially when the direct market for its products today numbers less than 1,000 oems.

The answer is - that if you want to know what the future of 2.5" enterprise SATA SSDs might look like -you have to look at the leading technology cores that will affect this market. Even if you're not planning to use SandForce based products yourself - you can't afford to ignore them - because they are setting the agenda.

Reliability is the next new thing for SSD designers and users to start worrying about.
read the article about SSD integrity A common theme you will hear from all fast SSD companies is that the faster you make an SSD go - the more effort you have to put into understanding and engineering data integrity to eliminate the risk of "silent errors." ...read the article
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