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5 Years Ago - October 2004
- from
SSD
History
BiTMICRO Ships First 3.5"
Ultra320 SCSI flash SSDs |
October 26, 2004 - BiTMICRO announced
its recent shipment of the E-Disk 3S320D - the world's first Ultra320 SCSI flash
solid state disk.
The E-Disk 3S320D conforms to the ANSI SCSI-3
SPI-4 standards and is ideal for embedded and applied computing applications
that require high reliability, performance, data security, and ruggedness, such
as telecom infrastructure network elements, pipeline monitoring, digital
mapping, financial on-line transactions, and homeland defense security.
The
E-Disk Ultra320 SCSI is OS independent and features up to 42sec access time and
a maximum IOPS of 12,500. Sustained R/W rate is 68MB/sec (max) and burst R/W
rate is 320MB/sec (max). This pure solid state/non-volatile drive can handle
operating shock of up to 1500 Gs and extreme temperatures from -40 to +85C. MTBF
is 2 million hours.
Available in a
3.5-inch form factor,
maximum capacity for the E-Disk Ultra320 SCSI is 155GB. The drive has a half
pitch DB68 connector compliant with SCSI ANSI standards, does not require any
device driver, and is completely bootable. The E-Disk Ultra320 SCSI product line
is fully compatible with major platforms such as Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS
and LynxOS, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, OS/2, QNX, VxWorks, SCO Unixware
and Open Server, Solaris x86, and Tru64.
...Later:-
u320 was the end of the roadmap for the long running
parallel SCSI
interface - which had been a formal standard since 1986 - and was based on
a concept going back to the 1960s.
In the
military SSD market
SCSI was effectively replaced by PATA and
SATA. When small form
factor Serial SCSI SSDs
started appearing in 2007 - they were aimed at the enterprise server market
rather than the military market.
Founded in 1995, BiTMICRO was an early
pioneer in the flash SSD market and is still active in the military SSD market
today.
see also:-
BiTMICRO
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WEDC Launches Secure PATA
SSD in PBGA
Editor:- January 18, 2010 - White Electronic Designs
has introduced
a 4GB secure PATA SLC
SSD in a 22mm x 27mm
PBGA for embedded military applications.
This product is designed for
applications in aircraft, communications and missiles. A hardware and software
triggered fast purge
can eliminate all data in less than 10 seconds and device options include
sanitization
compliant with various government agency specifications.
ioSafe Launches Disaster Proof Backup SSD
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - ioSafe
launched the
ioSafe Solo SSD - an ultra rugged
USB /
eSATA
external
flash SSD with
upto 256GB capacity ($1,250) designed to provide data protection against
disasters such as fire, flood, and building collapse.
RunCore Ships 1st PXI Express SSDs
Editor:- January
5, 2010 - RunCore
has started shipments of the 1st SSDs aimed at the
PXI Express market (a standard
which brings PCIe performance and functionality into the robust modular form
factor popular in automated instrumentation
test systems).
RunCore's
3U CPCIe\PXIe SSD card provides upto 768GB
MLC or 384GB SLC
capacity and has sustained R/W speeds upto 400MB/s. Available with industrial
operating temperature range and MIL-STD-810F processing, the module provides a
fast purge rate of
5GB/s.
Themis Launches 8 Core UltraSPARC T2 VPX Server
Editor:-
December 2, 2009 -
Themis
Computer today launched the 1st 6U VPX SBC based on Sun's
multi-core UltraSPARC T2.
Themis' T2VPX features a new system
architecture that combines up to 8
SPARC processor cores and
64 threads, with a
VPX
IO fabric. The T2VPX is designed for compute-intensive military and aerospace
applications requiring rugged computing solutions, beyond the reach of today's
VME-64-based systems. It runs both Linux and the Solaris 10 Operating System.
The T2VPX will be offered with 6 and 8 core processor options.
Foremay Offers SSD Sanitzation
Editor:- November
19, 2009 - Foremay
today announced that secure erase options are now available for most
models in its
SC199
SSD product family.
"Foremay is pleased to offer 3 secure
erase options to suit the need for different levels of data sanitation,"
said Jack Winters, CTO of Foremay. "These options are:- software-based
secure erase through a standard ATA command, hybrid software and hardware-based
data sanitation, and hardware-based one-key
self-destroy disk purge."
pureSilicon Unveils New Military SSDs
Editor:-
October 26, 2009 - pureSilicon
says it will start shipping its Renegade R2 Series 2.5" SATA SLC flash
SSDs later this week.
Sequential R/W speeds are 255MB/s and 180MB/s
respectively. IOPS performance is:- 18,000 IOPS random read: (4K) and ; random
write: 1,200 IOPS @ 4K) and proprietary SiPher™ data security technology.
The drives are available immediately in a wide range of densities
(4GB, 8GB, 16 GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB) in a low profile (9.5mm height)
2.5" form factor
and -40°C to +85°C operating temperature.
256GB, PATA,
1.8", and encryption
versions will start shipping in Q1 2010.
"pureSilicon is dedicated to providing high-performance, rugged
storage solutions to the defense, military, industrial, and government markets,"
said Jason Breakstone, founder and CEO of pureSilicon. "While many SSD
manufacturers are focusing their efforts on the mass consumer markets,
pureSilicon is committed to designing and delivering technologies that will
provide significant benefits to our customers such as full-disk encryption and
data declassification
methods. Renegade R2 is designed to operate in the harshest conditions."
pureSilicon says the specs it publishes are "steady-state
performance" results. These are achieved by performing proper
preconditioning, which prepares the drive for real-world usage scenarios and
yields realistic performance benchmarks. Other SSD manufacturers claim 'clean'
(new) drive performance specifications on a new drive, and users should expect
to see performance
reductions in real world use as a clean drive settles into its stabilized
(steady) state — once the drive is nearing capacity and is consistently
performing garbage
collection, wear leveling, and bad-block management.
SMART SSDs Selected for Avionics Servers
Editor:-
October 20, 2009 - SMART
today announced that it has been
selected
by Harris Corp to provide SSDs for use in its Mass Storage Unit
program.
The new MSU, which is part of a larger F/A-18 program, is the
first of a new family of avionics file servers.
Harris selected SMART's
XceedSecure
2.5" SATA SLC flash SSD for the in-flight file server application.
XceedSecure high-performance SSDs range in capacity from 32GB to 256GB and
include EraSure® technology, which provides
secure erase features
that comply with current military data-elimination standards.
Fast Purge flash SSDs
Editor:- September 25, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com today
published a new directory of Fast Purge flash SSDs.
The
need for fast and secure data erase - in which vital parts of a flash SSD or
its data are destroyed in seconds - has always been a requirement in military
projects. Although many industrial SSD vendors are offering their products with
extended "rugged" operating environment capabilities - it's the
availability of fast purge which differentiates "true military" SSDs
which can be deployed in
defense applications.
Foremay Launches Military SSDs
Editor:- September 21,
2009 - Foremay
announced the SC199 Hi-Rel Series SLC flash SSDs in 1.8", 2.5" and
3.5" form factors which meet
military standards
MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-833G.
Operational temperature options include
-40°C to approx 100°C.
The SC199 Hi-Rel Series SSDs are
made with rugged industrial grade SLC flash, and are geared for
high reliability,
high performance and high ruggedness applications, as well as for commercial
applications in harsh environments such as damp heat tropical forests, deserts,
arctic regions, tundra soil areas, mountains, muddy and dusty lands, wetlands,
oceans, and under water.
SMART Announces MIL-STD-810F 256GB 2.5" SATA SSDs
Editor:-
August 11, 2009 - SMART
Modular Technologies announced a new range of
rugged
2.5" 256GB SSDs for
defense applications
that will ship next month.
The
SATA compatible SSDs
are 16mm high. Data
declassification compliance is implemented by the company's EraSure
technology. The models comply with MIL-STD-810F environmental specifications for
operating shock, vibration, humidity and altitude, and each drive passes a
demanding 8 hour, full-temperature range
burn-in test prior to
shipment.
"SMART's new 256GB SSDs are ideal for applications such as
tactical fighters and unmanned aerial vehicles because they require a
combination of high storage density, extreme ruggedness, high reliability,
defense-grade data security, and low power," explained Mark Dupaul, SMART's
Senior Product Marketing Manager. "Fortunately, the continuing price
decline of SSDs is making it more affordable to use them in applications that
require high-capacity storage."
CWC's New VPX SSD
Editor:- July 27, 2009 - Curtiss-Wright
launched the VPX3-FSM
a rugged 256GB encrypted SLC flash SSD in a 3U
VPX form factor
module.
Aimed at integrators in the aerospace and
defense markets, the
conduction-cooled SSD can be configured to appear to the host as 4 separate
64GB SATA drives or
as a single drive with hardware RAID0 support. It's rated at 160MB/s memory
R/W when configured as RAID0, and 75MB/s per port in a
JBOD configuration.
STEC Sells $28 million SSDs to US Military
Editor:-
July 13, 2009 - STEC
today announced it has partnered with a leading defense systems contractor and
will supply its
MACH8 industrial SSDs
for integration into a platform designed on behalf of the U.S. Military as part
of a 12 month,
$28
million supply contract.
"We are proud to have been selected to provide our SSDs for use
in this military initiative," said Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and CEO of
STEC, Inc. "This contract marks the first major
military win for our
MACH8 line of SSDs."
Avnet to Distribute WEDC
Editor:- June 17, 2009 -
Avnet has
become
a distributor for White
Electronic Designs
"WEDC products offer
defense and aerospace
customers unique package solutions with extended environmental performance,"
said Bryan Brady, vp of defense/aerospace for Avnet Electronics Marketing
Americas. "This strengthens our ability to offer distinct product size,
weight and performance advantages for
high reliability
applications."
Trident Space & Defense Shows SSDs at Military & Aerospace
Electronics Forum
Editor:- June 1, 2009 - Trident Space & Defense
is exhibiting its
Triton Series
of ruggedized SSDs this week at the Military & Aerospace
Electronics Forum in San Diego.
Beyond its rugged storage
design, the Triton FSE SSD has the ability to quickly clear and purge your data
and sanitize
your information with agency defined algorithms allowing for complete media
de-classification.
See also:-
Storage Events
WEDC Launches Rugged Miniature SSD
Editor:- May
26, 2009 - today White
Electronic Designs introduced a surface mount miniature
PATA SLC SSD (22mm x
27mm PBGA) with 1, 2 and 4GB densities for use in high reliability
embedded applications such as aircraft, communications and missiles.
"These
products were engineered specifically for the defense market, with features
designed to ensure data reliability in mission critical rugged and mobile
systems. As a natural extension of our MCP and SiP technologies, these devices
bring big features in a miniaturized package," stated Mark Downey, Director
of Defense Technology. "This is really just the beginning of more to come
from us in the storage area. We are listening to what our defense customers want
from a solid state storage provider and plan to deliver on those requirements
with commitment and focus." Military & Rugged
Storage, 1.0" SSDs
SoleraTec Lightens the Load for Searching Streaming Surveillance
Camera Storage
Editor:- April 27, 2009 - SoleraTec has
incorporated support for the
Real Time Streaming
Protocol that allows for the direct video feed capture of IP-based video
surveillance cameras in version 5.2 of its
digital surveillance manager
software (SVM).
SoleraTec says its software is unique in its
ability to provide a file-based search and retrieval interface that enables the
user to actually play video surveillance files without first needing to retrieve
original hi-res assets from storage.
When its SVM ingests files, it
automatically creates low-resolution proxy files for fast search and view. Once
a desired video asset has been selected, clipped, and marked for export, the
new, user-configurable "extended export" functionality enables the
user to export needed data in a variety of ways, such as FTP, email, and local
file systems. Pricing for Phoenix 5.2 starts at $996.
MemoRight Aims at MIL-STD-810F SSD Market
Shenzhen, China - March
18, 2009 -
MemoRight says it will ship new industrial grade 2.5" flash
SSDs in May.
The new MemoRight rSSD is designed to operate from -40 to 85
degrees C and the company says its testing processes satisfy
MIL-STD-810F. MemoRight
expects the military,
defense, aviation & astronautics industries to be early adopters and key
users of their new SSD.
The rSSD also features MemoRight's "In-Drive" UPS, which
ensures 100% data integrity at all times. The capacitor simply flushes the cache
upon experiencing any power-off or voltage changes and writes this data to the
flash.
The new rSSD performs at 120MB/s read & 120MB/s write speeds,
with 0.1ms access time. It will be available in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB & 128GB
capacities, with a choice of
SATA II or IDE
interfaces. Like the MemoRight GT Series eSSD, the new model will be
manufactured in a 2.5"
form factor, with an optional
3.5" casing.
...Memoright profile
Olixir Announces DataVault Support for FIPS 140-2
Washington, D.C. - March 9, 2009 -
Olixir Technologies announced it will add new security features to
its family of DataVault hard drives in Q2 2009.
This will make them
fully-compliant with the requirements outlined in the Federal Information
Processing Standards
FIPS 140-2.
Incorporating an advanced set of security features including anti-virus,
anti-malware and encryption agents, which have already been approved by the DOD
DARTT Team, Olixir's external drives will meet all criteria to be connected via
USB cables to U.S.
Department of Defense networked computers. This comprehensive security
capability will be resident on the Mobile DataVault products and run
independently of the host computer to proactively protect the drive and the
network from malware and virus infections.
...Olixir Technologies
profile, Storage
Security
Winchester Systems Unveils Rugged Rackmount SSD RAID
Editor:-
March 5, 2009 - Winchester
Systems says its will launch a range of rugged rackmount SSDs next week
at FOSE
.
Among the new products is a 1U RAID 5 / 6 protected rugged
SSD array - the RX-1300
FlashDisk - which houses 12x
2.5" SSDs.
Interface options for the array include
SAS,
FC and
PCIe.
"Customers
find that they need field deployable storage and servers that exceed standard
commercial capabilities but not full military rugged specifications or prices,"
explained Mr. Joel Leider, the company's CEO. "Our rugged storage and
servers provide extra security and protection against dust, rain, shock and
vibration at COTS prices which are about half of full military standard costs."
The US Army has approved these units for field use. They are deployed
in harsh environments worldwide in HUMVEEs and stationary shelters.
AFN Manages Video Content with Front Porch Digital
LOUISVILLE, Colo. - March
2, 2009 - Front Porch Digital today announced that the American
Forces Network broadcast center has implemented the company's systems to
support management, retrieval, and long-term preservation of video content.
"AFN's mandate is to provide 'a taste of home' to U.S.
personnel and dependents the world over," said Mike Knaisch, president of
Front Porch Digital. "Front Porch Digital's content storage management
solutions constitute a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective way to manage
video programming content in support of that important mission."
...Front Porch Digital
profile, Storage
Services, Military &
Rugged Storage
SMART Extends Product Lives with 128GB Secure u160 SCSI SSDs
FREMONT, CA
- February 24, 2009 - SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. today
announced extensions to its Xceed family of industrial-grade 2.5" and 3.5"
SSDs.
New PATA-based SSDs have been added to the
XceedUltraX
and XceedSecure
product lines, and the company also announced Version 2.5 of its EraSure data
security software, which adds a new security protocol and improves overall SSD
declassification performance.
Of particular interest to systems integrators with long life-cycle
products - the SMART 3.5" XceedUltra2 and XceedSecure2 parallel SCSI
SSDs deliver sustained performance of up to 55MB/s read and 50MB/s write. The
drives come with either the 68- or 80-pin SCA
SCSI interface in
capacities ranging from 8GB to 128GB
...SMART profile
ASI Announces Smallest Mil Temp 4.8Gb DDR2
Austin,
Texas - January 19, 2009 - Austin Semiconductor, Inc. announced
volume availability of a new mil temp DDR2 memory device.
Packaged
in a 16mm x 23mm, 208 ball BGA with a ball pitch of 1.00mm, the 4.8Gb device is
organized as 64M x 72 and offers performance benchmarks up to 667Mbps data rate
while operating within the Mil-Temperature range of -55 to +125 degrees C,
which makes it ideal for hi-reliability applications. The 208 PBGA offers 61%
space savings, 55% I/O reduction, reduced part count and reduced trace lengths
for lower parasitic capacitance.
"With 208 PBGA we continue to
expand our product line of high performance highly integrated iPEMs (Integrated
Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits). The AS4DDR264M72PBG1 is our smallest device
in the 4.8Gb product offering and will continue to drive towards smaller, lower
power and more reliable memory products using our integration process" says
Frank Muscolino, VP of Business Development. ...Austin Semiconductor
profile, storage chips,
Military & Rugged
Storage
Curtiss-Wright Ships Faster XMC / PMC SSDs
Leesburg, VA -
November 5, 2008 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has
announced 2 new rugged flash SSDs in XMC and PMC form factors with upto 32GB
capacity.
Each card contains 2 independent SATA SSDs with upto 30MB/s
throughput. For maximum throughput (50MB/s) the 2 drives can be run in RAID 0
mode. Pricing starts at $2,495, and it's available in various air /
conduction cooled variants and consumes between less than 6W.
Curtiss-Wright,
Military & Rugged
Storage
First Terabyte SSD in Space - from Mtron
SEOUL,
South Korea - May 20, 2008 - Mtron announced today that a terabyte of
their SSD storage will be used in a NASA funded project (flying over the
South Pole) to research high-energy cosmic rays.
Neutrino events are rare and hard to detect on Earth. But the
Antarctic ice sheet provides a large nature-made detector with a million square
kilometer "lens" (when viewed from the balloon's 35km mission
height).
ANITA
is a radio telescope attached to NASA's stratospheric balloon to detect
Cherenkov pulses created when neutrinos from space hit the ice sheet which
is "remarkably transparent to radio waves."
ANITA's 2nd
month long experiment will start in December and will include 8x 3.5"
SATA SSDs from Mtron making up the data logging storage.
...Mtron profile
Editor's
comments:- balloons are a rugged environment for data storage, because
apart from the expected extremes of altitude and temperature - the way these
flights finish is often with a crash. So the ability to survive impact shocks
is also importanct.
Previously mentioned SSD balloon flights on
these pages include:- a 42 day flight by a 43GB
BiTMICRO SSD (2005) and before
that - an SSD from Memtech
plunged 127,000 feet as part of a NASA weather balloon that crashed onto a
Virginia highway, where it was promptly run over by a truck. Despite being "totally
bent out of shape" the data was still accessible.
Before being
acquired by STEC in 2005
- Memtech made the most
rugged
SSDs in the Solar System. One of their drives was onboard the
2004 Mars Rover.
Toshiba Announces Bigger Car Drive
IRVINE,
Calif - May 13, 2008 - Toshiba Storage Device Division today said it
will sample a (higher capacity) 60GB 2.5" 4,200 RPM automotive hard
drive later this year - with an improved altitude spec of 5,500 meters and
operating temperature range of -30° to +85° C.
"Automotive electronics designers are seeking robust storage
solutions to address the next generation of infotainment in the digital car,"
said Scott Wright, product manager, Toshiba SDD. "The new 60GB model comes
in response to our customers' storage requirements and provides greater
flexibility for OEM and aftermarket designers to integrate high-capacity
solutions for sophisticated in-car infotainment systems." ...Toshiba profile,
Toshiba
automotive HDDs
High Speed Data Recorder Uses 3.5" Drives
LONGMONT, Colorado
- May 12, 2008 - Conduant Corp announced today the introduction of its
Big River LTX2-35 data recorder.
The new recorder is ruggedized
for portable applications and accommodates upto 16 3.5"
hard drives or
SSDs in a 2U high
chassis. It can provide more than 500MB/s recording and playback performance
Base pricing starts at around $34,000 for a 4TB system.
...Conduant profile
Aleratec's Disk Sanitizer gets Military Citation
Chatsworth, CA - March
3, 2008 - Military Embedded Systems magazine has commended Aleratec Inc.
for its new stand alone HDD Cruiser - a hard disk drive sanitizer and
duplicator all in one unit.
The
HDD Cruiser will
simultaneously sanitize
up to 4 hard drives to
assure that all confidential data is unreadable. It can also
duplicate up to 3 HDDs
simultaneously.
"We are very proud to be recognized for our developments by
Military Embedded Systems Magazine"
said Perry Solomon, President and CEO of Aleratec. "...We made the HDD
Cruiser the complete tool, it can also make exact duplicate copies of hard
drives to expedite setting up new PCs or recycling old drives with new site
licensed operating systems and standard applications which is particularly
useful when drives have already been used and need to be set up for a new
project." ...Aleratec
profile
Ramtron Releases 125°C Automotive
F-RAM
COLORADO
SPRINGS, CO - December 4, 2007 - Ramtron International Corp today added
another 4 kilobit F-RAM memory device to its automotive product line.
The
FM25040A-GA
is now specified to operate at +125C and is guaranteed to retain data for
9,000 hours at that extreme temperature. Ideal for advanced powertrain systems,
the FM25040A-GA offers fast writes, virtually unlimited endurance, and low
power. It's a direct hardware replacement for equivalent EEPROMs but offers No
Delay writes. The FM25040A-GA is guaranteed to retain data for 17 years at +55
degrees C.
...Ramtron profile
Formation Launches 320GB 3.5" SATA
ToughDisk
MOORESTOWN, NJ -
September 12, 2007 - Formation, Inc. announced today introduction of
its ToughDisk 3500 SATA 320GB 3.3" rugged hard disk.
ToughDisk
is a rugged data storage solution used by all branches of the US military and
many commercial organizations because of its ability to perform
reliably in
temperature, altitude, shock, vibration, humidity, and dust conditions that
would destroy conventional hard
disks, at a fraction of the cost of
solid-state storage.
"The TD3500 SATA can be used with high-end
SAS controllers as
well as any of the ubiquitous embedded
SATA ports" says
Sam Carswell, Formation's chief technology officer. "They provide the
performance of SAS enterprise-class disks without the heat and mechanical
limitations of those 15K RPM disks. Using the same principle that gives
dual-core processors high performance with fewer watts of power dissipation,
this 3.5" SATA disk contains 4x 2.5" inch platters bonded together
with RAID. The independent
actuator arms and read/write heads double the media transfer rate normally
available from rugged disks."
...Formation profile
Data Domain Provides D2d for U.S. Army
Data
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - May 29, 2007 - Data Domain today announced that the U.S.
Army has deployed Data Domain's DDX Arrays to protect a major military
communications portal that serves 1.8 million globally dispersed users.
The client's communication portal supports more than 400,000 unique
log-ins and 700,000 log-ins daily. The implementation provides both backup and
disaster recovery capabilities, with network-based replication via satellite
network from a Data Domain
DDX Array located
in Southwest Asia to a DDX Array located in the United States.
In this
challenging and unusual Data Domain system implementation, the sandy
environmental conditions of the desert in close proximity to deployed troops
prohibited the use of tape
media for data protection.
The Chief of Architecture for the U.S.
Army client explains, "The U.S. Army has a very low tolerance for loss of
data and we knew, given the physical environment and the network type we were
dealing with, that this project would not be an easy one. Data Domain's support
was both exceptional and critical to the process. Our mission was to deliver
more reliable and responsive communications services to soldiers in-theatre on
the other side of the world. Data Domain helped us make it happen."
...Data Domain
profile, Military
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