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data storage news |
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
WEDC Targets Medical Market
Phoenix, AZ - December 19,
2007 - White Electronic Designs Corp is leveraging its defense industry
experience and expertise to develop high-reliability modules for the growing
portable medical device market.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, there will be an expected 40 million persons in the U.S. over the age of
65 by 2010, driving the need for portable medical devices, especially for home
use. The portable medical device market is driven by the same requirements
and expectations as the defense segment; such as high quality and reliability,
shorter development cycles, a well-defined and documented supply chain and
extended product lifecycles. Among other products WEDC designs and
manufactures one of the industry's first medical series CompactFlash cards.
...White Electronic
Designs profile
Editor's comments:- WEDC has also recently
published a paper
Is All
CompactFlash Really Created Equal? (pdf) which uses the medical
instrumentation market as the backdrop for a discussion about
flash SSDs similar
to those concerns analyzed in
SSD Myths and
Legends - "write endurance" - which looked at the enterprise
server market.
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
Memoright Launches Fastest 2.5" Drive
Shenzhen, China - October 18,
2007 - Memoright today launched its 2.5" 64GB PATA / SATA flash
SSDs on the international market.
The new products were
demonstrated recently to enterprise partners at the company's headquaters in
China.
Memoright's patented technology enables their SSD to deliver
100M Bytes/sec sustained read and write transfer rates - which is the fastest
throughput in a currently available
2.5" flash SSD.
Memoright says its random access performance is typically 5x faster than a
hard disk.
Products
are available with "military grade" operating temperature -40 to +80
degrees C. The company is currently looking for sales agents worldwide and says
it will launch 1.8" and 3.5" soon.
...Memoright 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,
Military Storage
BiTMICRO will Ship 412GB 2.5" SSDs in
Q108
London, UK -
September 11, 2007 - BiTMICRO Networks today said it will ship a 416GB
2.5" flash SSD in Q1 2008.
The announcement was made at
Defence Systems & Equipment International
in London. The forthcoming E-Disk Altima E2A133BL is designed for military,
industrial and commercial users who are looking for faster and bigger storage
upgrades for time-tested PATA-based systems. Throughput is 133MB/sec burst with
up to 100MB/sec sustained reads and writes and up to 20,000+ Random IOPS.
"The launch of the E-Disk Altima series of cutting-edge solid state flash
drives will usher in a new computing era, where solid state mass storage will
combine with multi-core processors to deliver unprecedented levels of
performance required by next-generation operating systems and applications,"
said Rudy Bruce, BiTMICRO's Exec. VP for Marketing. ...BiTMICRO Networks profile,
Flash - based Solid
State Disks, 2.5"
SSDs
Noise Damping Techniques for PATA SSDs
Editor:-
August 10, 2007 - SiliconSystems today published a new white paper
called - "Noise Damping Techniques for PATA SSDs in Military-Embedded
Systems."
This article looks at electronic signal integrity
issues in integrating high speed PATA SSDs. It helps electronic designers
understand how factors such as ground bounce, loading, power supply noise and
signal trace mismatches can lead to false data or even device damage. Examples
given in the tutorial style commentary include scope shots and logic analyzer
traces. ...read
the article, ...SiliconSystems
profile, storage chips,
storage analyzers
Editor's
comments:- the article gives a good grounding (couldn't resist that one) in
the signal quality factors needed to get high
reliability
operation and is equally relevant to
hard disks.
To
simplify the 20 page document:- if you connect reliable electronic modules using
unreliable signal paths - that will compromise the integrity of the data. Logic
states are virtual - but digital signals are real and can have completely
different shapes to what you expect if you don't follow basic rules.
Conduant Sustains 480MB/sec Writes to 1U
Data Recorder
LONGMONT, Colorado -
July 10, 2007 - Conduant Corp announced today the Big River LTX2 data
recorder.
The new recorder provides over 480Mbytes/second
recording and playback performance in a 1U (12 volts DC powered) package. It
can operate as a standalone system with network control or can be directly
connected to a host computer via its Star Fabric PCI bridge interface. It
accepts 16x 2-1/2" disk drives for up to 3.2 Terabytes of storage capacity.
...Conduant profile,
Military Storage,
Storage Test,
Rackmount Storage
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
Storage, Disk to disk
backup
Targa's SATA Storage Targets Military
Ottawa Canada - March 1,
2007 — Targa Systems today announced the availability of SATA Data
Transfer Systems for the Military and Aerospace markets.
2
versions of the SATA DTU's are available:
Series 3 PC Card SATA DTU: Capacities to 16GB Transfer rates to
5MB/sec
Series 4 Removable Disk SATA DTU's Capacities to 96GB Transfer rates
to 50MB/sec
The Targa Series 3 PC Card SATA Data Transfer System is the perfect
device for your military & aerospace systems. Typical airborne platform
application systems include flight management, cockpit instrument display,
terrain awareness and warning, map systems, radar systems, cockpit/ground
communications, navigation positioning, and satellite communications. With PC
Card capacities now at 16GB, and soon to be 32GB, the removable PC Card feature
of the Series 3 product line allows for easy updating of files.
In those applications requiring higher storage capacity and/or
greater read/write speeds than PC Cards can offer, Targa offers its Series 4
Removable Disk SATA DTU's. The Series 4 SATA DTU offers capacities up to 96 GB
in a compact, rugged and removable 2.5"
flash disk. The
removable disk feature of the Series 4 product line allows for easy updating of
files. Data Transfer rates up to 50GB/sec are available.
...Targa Systems profile,
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Squeak!
- the Fastest Solid State Disks
Speed isn't everything, and
it comes at a price. |
But if you do
need the speediest SSD
then wading through the web sites of over 55 current
SSD oems to find a suitable
candidate slows you down.
And the SSD search problem will get even
worse. |
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I predict
there will be over 100 SSD oems in 2008.
I've done the research for
you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from
storage news and direct
inputs from oems. ...read
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- 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. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") 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
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