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SMART Modular Technologies is a leading provider of memory
products, offering more than 500 standard and custom products to top-tier OEMs
in the computer, industrial, networking, and telecommunications sectors. Taking
innovations from the design stage through manufacturing and delivery, SMART has
developed a comprehensive memory product line that includes DRAM, SRAM, and
Flash in various form factors.
Through its subsidiary,
Adtron, SMART offers
high performance, high capacity solid
state drives for enterprise, defense/aerospace, industrial automation,
medical, and transportation markets. SMART's presence in the US, Europe, Asia,
and Latin America enables it to provide its customers with proven expertise in
international logistics, asset management, and supply-chain management
worldwide. More information on SMART can be obtained at www.smartm.com.
see also:-
SMART
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- SMART's SSD market niche is
offering high performance industrial / server grade SSDs in traditional disk
form factors such as 1.8"
and 2.5". Having
said that - it doesn't yet offer SSDs with
SAS or
FC interfaces - thereby
missing out an important subset in the server spectrum.
Recent
SMART SSD milestones from
SSD Market
History
In October 2008 -
SMART started
shipping the Xcel-10 SSD - a 2.5" SLC flash SSD with upto 128GB capacity.
Sustained read speed is 115MB/s, and write speed is 125MB/s. (It really is
faster than the read speed). It delivers 5,580 IOPS at 100% read or 980 IOPS at
67% read, 33% write, for random I/O using 4K block size.
In February
2009 - SMART
announced new 3.5"
parallel SCSI SSDs with
upto 128GB and faster secure erase for industrial, defense, and other embedded
applications that require extremely rugged storage devices and legacy
interfaces.
In June 2009 -
SMART disclosed
it had used
Marvell's SSD
controller in SMART's new
XceedIOPS
PCIe SSD which offers
upto 400GB capacity and 140,000 random IOPS performance.
In August
2009 - SMART
announced a new range of
rugged
2.5" 256GB SSDs for
defense applications.
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.
In September 2009 -
SMART announced
it has selected the
SandForce
SF-1500
SSD processor for use in its next-generation enterprise-class
SATA SSDs sampling
later this year.
In October 2009 -
SMART 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 SSDs include EraSure technology, which provides
secure erase
features.
In December 2009 -
SMART started
sampling the
XceedIOPS
SATA - SLC and "enterprise grade" MLC flash SSDs in
1.8" and
2.5" form factors
- based on the SF-1500 processor from
SandForce.
Performance is upto 30K
IOPS random
read/write. SMART uses a combination of
write attenuation
technologies to attain a 5-year projected lifetime for its 400GB MLC
XceedIOPS SATA model ($2,900 oem qty price) in an environment that demands
250MB/s sustained write and a 40% duty cycle.
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