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Astek Corporation, located in Colorado Springs near Garden of
the Gods park, specializes in storage productions and solutions for the
embedded, industrial, medical and military markets. Astek provides off-the shelf
products, ODM products and custom configurations, and full-custom NRE design
services. Our engineers also perform ASIC design, board design, prototyping and
manufacturing, software/firmware development and other design and system
integration services. Astek is a closely held private company, established in
1998, located in Colorado Springs CO at 5055 Corporate Plaza Drive, Colorado
Springs, CO, 80919.
- editor's comments:- you would never be able to guess from Astek's company
profile - that what the company actually does is design and market HBAs on PCI
related form factors (AMC, PMC etc) for
SAS and
Fibre-channel interfaces.
The company also makes adapters, enclosures and some memory / bus test modules.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
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