Selectronix, with headquarters in Aldermaston in the UK, is a specialist
European distributor and manufacturer of
Fibre Channel,
SCSI,
Infiniband, etc
high speed communications assemblies and related components. Formed in 1979 as
a specialist UK distributor of interconnection products, together with a range
of electromechanical devices, Selectronix has since developed along two avenues:
as a distributor of connector products, relays, switches and sensors, and as a
manufacturer, in our own modern assembly plant, of
SCSI cables for
computer related applications where technical expertise is required; and as a
supplier of Fibre Channel, Infiniband, Gigabit Ethernet solutions for this
dynamic new market.
editor's comments:- Selectronix advertised here on
StorageSearch.com from 2000 to 2004. Their ads mostly featured storage cables
and GBICs, but also some HBAs as well. You can see one of their banner ads
from that period below.
Another
connection was that David Mellor - who drew the
mouse pictures for
StorageSearch.com subrented an office in Selectronix's HQ building at
Calleva Park Aldermaston, UK.
Selectronix was based about a mile
from my home / office, before I moved to Lewes, Sussex in 2007.
The
roundabout at Calleva Park can
be very confusing.
It loops into another roundabout heading towards
Tadley. When I first moved into that area in the early 1990s - I often used to
drive several times around before taking the correct turn. That endless looping
on the way to a restaurant (no longer in business) called Romans at Silchester
- is still remembered with hilarity by family members nearly 20 years later.
They were following me in the car behind. |
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hold up
capacitors in 2.5" military SSDs
to be or not to be? |
Editor:-
zero
to three seconds are 2 numbers which demonstrate some of the
extreme diversity in
SSD design. My examples here being the hold up times inside 2 current
models (in 2015) of 2.5" SATA SSDs designed for the
military market.
- One from Microsemi
(HQ in Aliso Viejo, CA, USA).
- And the other is from Solidata (HQ in
Shenzhen, China).
I've touched on this kind of architectural design
difference many times before in earlier articles. But every time I revisit this
vast topic with fresh examples - I learn something new.
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