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Swissbit

Swissbit is the largest DRAM memory module and Flash storage device manufacturer in Europe. Created from a management buyout of the Siemens HL Business Unit in 2001, Swissbit has today facilities in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Swissbit offers industrial DRAM memory modules in all popular technologies and Flash industrial storage product families including CF, SD, USB, PATA and SATA interfaces. All Swissbit products meet highest quality criteria and RoHS and REACh directives. The target markets for the Swissbit products are industrial electronics, automotive, railway technology, wired telecommunications, medical electronics as well as aerospace/defense. Additional company and product information is available at www.swissbit.com.

see also:- Swissbit - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com and Swissbit's flash memory and SSD page

the changing face of the industrial SSD market
One of the oldest markets for flash SSDs is the embedded industrial market - where rugged flash SSDs have been used since the mid 1990s.
image shows mouse building storage - click to see industrial SSDs article This is a slowly changing market and it rarely makes the SSD news headlines - but many facets in this market have changed in the past 5 years. ...read the article
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Are MLC SSDs Safe in Enterprise Apps?
Are MLC SSDs Safe? - is a very popular article which looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which - having hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones - have in the past 4 years morphed and crept into many (but not all) enterprise SSDs.

In a notebook (where you aren't exactly expecting a 5 nines uptime quality data experience) MLC SSDs can be a good thing from the reliability and cost point of view. But how about in the datacenter?

Some leading vendors support MLC in enterprise and industrial grade SSDs - others don't. Ever wondered why? There's a lot more to the MLC vs SLC in SSDs debate than simply endurance.
are MLC SSDs safe in enterprise apps - recently updated   popular article This classic article explains the technical differences. It also includes recent updates and comments from industry leaders to show you why in some cases MLC is a viable solution - but in other cases it's still not. (No matter how clever the controller.) ...read the article

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