Z Microsystems is the leading designer and manufacturer of fieldready
computing solutions designed to meet the rigorous requirements of military and
government users. Z Microsystems fieldready commercial offtheshelf
(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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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 | |