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Ampex

Founded in 1944 - Ampex is a leading supplier of high-capacity, high performance digital storage systems capable of functioning in demanding environments on land, at sea or in the air.

  • editor's comments:- March 2011 - among other things Ampex designs a rugged iSCSI SSD for airborne applications.

    The TuffServ 480 provides 2TB of RAID protected hot swappable flash storage in a conduction cooled MIL-STD-810F certified compact package measuring 5.25" H x 7.25" W x 10" D.

    Ampex mentions in SSD market history

    In October 2009 - Ampex announced first shipments of the TuffServ 480 SSD.
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If you see someone carrying a 1U rack in a pack onto a plane - and find out later this box has 136TB of raw flash, which can do 400K IOPS on a SAN at under 1 micro-second latency - even with one power supply down - it may be someone from Skyera.

Size weight and power (swap) savings are some of the consequences of their relentless pursuit of the ultimate efficiency in SSD array design...
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hold up capacitors in 2.5" MIL SSDs

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0 to 3S
Editor:- I've been looking at different aspects of power hold up schemes in mission critical non volatile memory systems for over 30 years.

But every time I revisit this vast topic and compare fresh examples from the market - I learn something a little bit new.

My blog - Zero to three seconds - demonstrates the extreme range of hold up times now in the market inside leading edge 2.5" military flash SSDs. ...read the article

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