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..........	Targa Systems Targa Systems, L-3 Communications Canada Inc., founded in 1981, is a leading supplier of ruggedized solid-state data storage products for the military and aerospace markets.
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	Targa provides COTS, as well as custom and modified- COTS storage solutions and operates a quality system compliant to NATO Industry Standard AQAP-4; US MIL-I-45208, and to ISO-9000. Targa Systems' solid state data storage products are flying on an impressive number of military and aerospace platforms worldwide. The market for Targa's products encompasses data storage applications where extreme shock, vibration, temperature or other environmental conditions prohibit the use of conventional data storage products, such as disk drives. Targa's customers are military prime contractors, military services, aerospace and avionics agencies Targa's storage products are available with a wide range of interfaces including:- SCSI, ATA, SATA, USB, Ethernet, Serial RS422/485 etc.	fits in the palm of your hand removable 128GB rugged military storage Ethernet+USB+RS-422 SWAP < 5W power Series 6 RSM - from Targa Systems

2.5" removable military SSDs for airborne apps - GbE / SATA / USB from Targa Systems	Targa - addresses and links
	Corporate Facilities Targa Systems L-3 Communications Canada Inc. 2081 Merivale Road Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1G9 Canada tel:- +1 (613) 727-9876 fax:- +1 (613) 727-1705	..........	news PC Card DTU's applications (COTS and custom builds) rugged data storage products overview

see also:- Targa Systems - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com .......... editor's comments:- October 2017 - Targa Systems started advertising its rugged removable flash drives here on StorageSearch.com in August 2005. Since those days - the number of interfaces they support has grown - as too has the capacity of the drives. Targa has added details of many customer projects on its applications page which show examples of how COTS SSDs have been used in various named plane and helicoptor systems to perform specific functions. A bugbear for military avionics - which goes right back to the earliest integrated circuits - is that the commercial life of electronics components and related systems is much shorter than the operating life of the military projects they go into. Being able to maintain serviceability of complex subsystems such as storage drives for example can be a real pain for military customers. Some of the examples in Targa's applications page show how new Targa SSD systems were designed to be form fit replacements and exact emulations for older and (now obsolete, unavailable or less rugged) optical and tape storage systems which had been integrated into the original legacy aircraft design blueprints. This type of business activity isn't as glamorous as designing high speed accelerator SSDs for new markets - like 2.5" PCIe SSDs - but in many respects the ability to extend the operating life of legacy high value military platforms by integrating COTS SSDs is just as worthy - and can be just as technically challenging. 1.0" SSDs 1.8" SSDs 2.5" SSDs 3.5" SSDs rackmount SSDs PCIe SSDs SATA SSDs SSDs all flash SSDs hybrid drives flash memory RAM SSDs SAS SSDs Fibre-Channel SSDs

How committed (really) are these companies to the military SSD business? a not so simple list of military SSD companies .......... SSD sudden power loss vulnerability guide Why should you care what happens in an SSD when the power goes down? This important design feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases - has a strong impact on SSD data integrity and operational reliability. This article will help you understand why some SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be negligible. If you thought endurance was the end of the SSD reliability story - think again. ...read the article .

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