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Fortasa Memory Systems, headquartered in Silicon Valley,
Calif., is a leading provider of Solid State Storage Solutions uniquely focused
to meet the high-performance, high reliability needs of original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs). We are focused on meeting customer specific technical
needs with unique and differentiated Memory Storage Products. We offer a wide
range of memory solutions that integrate state-of-the-art Flash Controller
technology to significantly extend the reliability of Flash media beyond its
standard rated operation. Our goal is to differentiate ourselves from the
generic storage product suppliers in 3 areas:
1) - Continued support of legacy and installed base products such
as PC Cards, Small Capacity Flash cards, etc.
2) - Productize custom storage solutions that would offer a unique
and differentiated value to the customer. These include custom form factor,
unique product features and special interface commands
3) - Proliferation of Non-commodity applications and special
requirements – Industrial and Higher temperature range, Military
requirements, etc.
- editor's comments:- May 2011 - Fortasa is a relative newcomer to
the SSD market. The company was founded in late 2009 by and started to ship
revenue product in 2010. The company confirmed to me it has an official
distributor in Russia - with a Russian
language web site. I asked about this - because I am genetically suspicious
about dot-ru sites - so I asked if it was just spam. It's not.
Fortasa
says it aims to differentiate itself from generic consumer SSD makers. Fortasa
uses its own proprietary SSD controller algorithms to increase operating life
and data integrity.
Fortasa's white paper
SSD
Power Failure Recovery (pdf) (first published in January 2010) is a
useful article about the subject of
Surviving SSD
sudden power loss. Among other techniques Fortasa's design makes a redundant
copy of the FAT structure when doing a block write which is retained until
after the write has been verified - to "practically eliminate any chance
of FAT table corruption." - Fortasa also specifies that system designers
should provide approximately "5mS of reserve power to their SSDs to
complete the NAND max program time, control signal propagation delay and
queuing." That means the designer doesn't have to guess or over-design the
power hold-up. |
