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Founded in 1981, Mercury Systems
is a leading commercial provider of secure processing subsystems
designed and made in the U.S.A. |
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see also: -
"Mercury
Systems" mentions in StorageSearch.com,
Mercury
SSDs overview
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| Who's who
in SSD? - Mercury Systems | |
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- May 2016
Although I expected that Mercury Systems could one
day become a company of interest to my readers it took a long time. I first
became aware of Mercury in 1991 when they introduced a VMEbus i860 processor
card. That year overlapped the end of my time as a VMEbus systems integrator and
the start of my 25 years (so far
publishing career)
which began with the SPARC
Product Directory.
The first mention of Mercury Systems in
StorageSearch.com was in 1999 - the context being as a supplier in the
SAN systems market. But
despite hearing from over 2,000 other storage companies in the
years which
followed I didn't hear anything of interest for my readers from Mercury for
another 17 years. Although when I did - that was interesting!
That
happened in March
2016 -was Mercury Systems
announced it would acquire the secure military SSD business of Microsemi as part of a
$300 million deal which closed in May 2016.
As a result of this
acquisition Mercury Systems now has a very well respected rugged and secure SSD
family which uses no hold up capacitors in its design. This type of SSD
architecture enables faster power up boot to ready times than
regular cached
designs and has a different set of operating and reliability characteristics
too. For more about the differences see
this
article.
What will Mercury Systems do with the new product line
and how will the legacy rugged secure SSD product lines be marketed? That's not
clear yet although I assume that the SSDs will find their way into systems
related offerings (boards, boxes and storage offered by Mercury).
Related
articles and directories:-
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| Mercury's
3D BuiltSECURE memory will take to the skies |
Editor:- September 11, 2017 -Mercury Systems
today
announced
it received a $8 million order from a leading defense prime contractor for
BuiltSECURE high density secure memory devices manufactured at its DMEA-trusted
facility in Phoenix, Ariz. The high-speed memory devices will be integrated into
active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar systems deployed on an advanced
airborne military platform.
BuiltSECURE high density secure memory devices use Mercury’s 3D
packaging technology to transform a 2D array of discrete memory devices into a
single, vertically stacked, dense ball grid array (BGA) package. Delivering
space savings up to 75%, the memory devices are also precision engineered to
withstand the harshest of operating conditions encountered during military
operations.
See also:- what's
RAM really? - RAM in an SSD context | | |
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| Microsemi's secure SSD
business to be acquired by Mercury Systems |
| Editor:- March 23, 2016 - Mercury Systems has
agreed to acquire the secure
SSD business of Microsemi
as part of a $300 million deal which includes several other business units
focused on the defense
electronics market which altogether employ approximately 275 people based at
facilities in Phoenix, Ariz., Camarillo, Calif., San Jose, Calif., and West
Lafayette, Ind. | | |
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| "See how optimizing
processors for SSD can gain a 2x to 250x speed-up on popular functions as well
as reduce the energy consumed by a similar amount! " |
| SSD Bookmarks - from
Cadence | | |
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| Microsemi fills key gap in
TRRUST-Stor line |
Editor:- August 14, 2015 - Microsemi recently
added a low power MO-300 mSATA SLC SSD to its
TRRUST-Stor®
family of secure
/ military SSDs.
The
MM3064AN2R-M001
can be sanitized according to the NSA 9-12 protocol in less than 2 minutes.
"In
the advanced deep sleep low power mode, the SSD is only using 150mW and can be
'instant on.' said Bill Sorrentino,
tactical marketing manager for Microsemi's Memory and Storage business.
"This
feature will enable longer field life for battery powered applications. In
addition, it will cut down on cooling required for products where heat is a
concern."
...Later:- 2 weeks later - Microsemi expanded their
secure rugged SSD range still further with a new XMC form factor SSD -
the
MXMCM256
- which has upto 512GB SLC in an air cooled or conduction cooled XMC
mezzanine. Details include:-
- XMC x2 PCIe interface per ANSI/VITA 42.3-2014
- XMC SATA interface (configurable)
- R/W speeds upto 185 MB/s
- Continuously running built-in self-test
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