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ATP Electronics

Established in 1991, ATP Electronics, Inc. has always been a leading flash memory products manufacturer with industry leading design and production technology. Specializing in highest density and robust IC packaging, ATP offers a complete line of highly durable and reliable flash digital storage products. ATP System-In-Package (SIP) Flash card manufacturing process is the backbone to our superior build quality and durability. The industry leading SIP process involves advanced wire bonding, stacking, and encapsulation stages which make ATP products more consistently durable and reliable. The industry leading manufacturing technology has enabled ATP to be the first to market on flash products such as the ultra high speed, Class 6 ProMax 4GB SDHC (SD High Capacity) card. Continuing this trend ATP will soon be the first in the world to release an 8GB SDHC. The ATP name continues to grow through both retail and OEM sales channels. With multiple offices in the United States, Asia, and Europe, ATP offers worldwide support in both engineering and sales. ATP adheres to the strict ISO9001 QA standards for quality and compatibility. All ATP memory products are RoHs, CE, and FCC approved.

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Squeak! - SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
Does the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into flash solid state disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration applications - such as RAID systems?
It was certainly true as little as a few years ago.

What's the risk with today's devices?

This article looks at the current generation of products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried.
read the article - SSD Myths and Legends
RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (160G in 2.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article, storage reliability solid state disks

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