By
leveraging more than 20 years of solid state storage design expertise, Greenliant
Systems is dedicated to developing energy-efficient, highly reliable and
secure storage solutions for the embedded systems and enterprise datacenter
markets.
The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with product
development in Santa Clara, Beijing, Shanghai and Hsinchu, and marketing teams
in North America, Europe and Asia.
For more information about
Greenliant Systems, please visit http://www.greenliant.com
see
also:-
Greenliant
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com, and
Greenliant's products overview,
Greenliant's news
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Who's who in SSD? - by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - January 2015
Greenliant Systems was founded in
April
2010 - by former SST
chairman and CEO, Bing Yeh.
Until recently Greenliant's
technology focus has been low power miniature SSDs and other SSDs (SATA and
PATA) aimed at the
industrial SSD
market.
In a surprising move Greenliant recently entered the
enterprise SSD market with a range of NVMe PCIe SSDs - the G7100 Series - rated
at 10 Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD)
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In November 2010 -
Greenliant Systems
began
sampling SATA
compatible variants of its
NANDrive
GLS85LS which have upto 64GB capacity in a 14mm x 24mm x 1.85mm 145
BGA. Active-mode power consumption as low as 500mW and a deep power-down mode
can reduce this to 10mW. The SSDs have content protection zones and designers
can select areas of the storage to protect with
fast erase.
In
February 2012
- Greenliant Systems
has
started
volume shipments of its industrial grade rugged SATA SLC
SSDs on a chip (BGA -
14mm x 24mm x 1.95mm) -
NANDrive
GLS85LS - which have upto 8GB capacity, 70/60MB/s R/W, include zoneable
password security and
fast erase, and
strong power fail data
protection.
In
June 2012
- Greenliant
Systems
announced
it is sampling industrial
temperature range e.MMC
compatible SSDs on a
chip with upto 128GB capacity.
In January 2015 -
Greenliant Systems
entered the enterprise PCIe
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
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| In custom SSDs some
circuits or processing steps can be removed entirely from the bill of materials
due to knowing from the system environment that they aren't needed or that an
equivalent function is being done elsewhere at the system level. This is
contrast to a "similar" standard SSD design - where it wouldn't be
prudent for the product manager to weaken those operating requirements - because
standard SSDs have to cater for a wide range of possible customer deployments
(set by industry expectations). |
| some thoughts about SSD
customization | | |
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| Greenliant promises 10
years availability of SLC |
Editor:- September 17, 2013 - One of the
pressures which has been driving embedded SSD designers towards the kind of
elaborate
controller technologies
which enable MLC to operate over the full
industrial
temperature operating range has been the
cost per terabyte
- but another has been the open question of whether it will be realistically
possible to guarantee sourcing SLC in the future at all - which is why some
companies like Virtium
have instead got product roadmaps which ensure that future design slots can be
filled with identical footprint SSDs which will use whatever future variations
of nand flash memory the future market is likely to offer.
That's in
contrast to the decades old market practise of stockpiling old technology
chips for use in legacy equipment designs which are assembled much later.
These longevity assurance programs can get complicated and expensive - and I've
even heard of recent cases where SSDs are emulating 1970s vintage
floppy drives to keep
some expensive machinery running.
There are risks involved in both
these approaches (to SSD design socket continuity).
Anyway in a
product launch
announcement
today Chen Tsai,
senior VP, manufacturing operations - Greenliant Systems
said that ""To address applications with long lifecycles -
Greenliant's new SLC
SATA NANDrive (industrial
BGA form factor SSDs)
will be available up to 10 years through
Greenliant's Long-Term
Availability program."
For those in the
rugged and military SSD
markets - this type of consideration about long term product availability is
the usual way of doing business.
That's in stark contrast to the
consumer and
enterprise SSD markets
- in which designers are more interested in the probability that they will be
able to get superior (faster and higher capacity) products in future
motherboard designs (so long as they are
software and interface
compatible) - rather than getting exact clones of the original devices to work
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