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Z Microsystems

Z Microsystems is the leading designer and manufacturer of “field–ready” computing solutions designed to meet the rigorous requirements of military and government users. Z Microsystems’ field–ready commercial off–the–shelf (COTS) products include rugged flat panel displays, rugged computers and rugged storage systems.

  • editor's comments:- April 2009 - Z Microsystems' rugged storage products range from pocket sized modules to rackmount PCIe connected RAID systems.

    The internal storage components are regular hard drives. But the packaging technology includes options like hermetic sealing, internal heater (for use in cold climates), vibration and EMI resistance and resistance to attack by fungus.
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ssd specs article Can You Trust Flash SSD Specs & Benchmarks?
Sadly no! - Many published benchmarks for flash SSD are about as reliable as bank valuations of Collateralized Loan Obligations (just before the onset of the Credit Crunch).
There are many intrinsic technical reasons why you can't believe most published benchmarks for flash SSDs (whether done by magazines or vendors) and why even the tests you carefully do yourself don't give reliable results which correlate with how the SSD will perform in real-life applications.

We warned you of it this problem here on StorageSearch.com last year - and now other publications and vendors are starting to take it seriously too. ...read the article

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