New Virtium StorFly PCIe M.2 and Mini Card SSDs Draw Less Than 4W

Virtium Technology, Inc. introduced a family of PCIe-based SSDs whose small size and low power requirements (under four watts) make them a storage solutions in space- and air-restricted embedded/industrial applications.

The new Virtium StorFly SSDs, available in both M.2 and Mini Card form factors, are designed to operate at low power and offer reliable and compatible drop-in storage for systems at the center of communications, networking, data acquisition, automation, and other demanding applications.

“System designers grapple daily with how to balance performance, reliability, compatibility, and cost-efficiency – a task made more all the more complex when it comes to SSDs’ myriad interfaces, form factors, capacities, and varying feature sets,” said Gary Drossel, Virtium VP of product strategy. “Virtium has made that balancing act dramatically easier through our new M.2 and Mini Card, whose PCIe interface, small size, high reliability, and compatibility with existing designs improve system optimization.”

Drawing less power allows the new Virtium SSDs to generate less heat – higher temperatures diminish storage performance – which improves the devices’ reliability in systems where space is limited and airflow minimal, if not absent entirely. The M.2 and Mini Card drives’ value to these environments is further enhanced by their small footprints – 22x80mm for M.2, 30x51mm for Mini Card. The combined low power and small size provides system designers with the capability to scale their capacity by allowing integration of multiple SSDs all within a limited power budget or system footprint.

Built on Virtium’s StorFly platform, the M.2 and Mini Card SSDs are available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. SSDs in this range are for when reliability and compatibility take priority over capacity – such as in boot drives, data logging and read-oriented solutions – and provide systems designers with cost-efficient storage options. The M.2 and Mini Card drives’ PCIe 2.0 interface provides a future-proof solution as it enables access to a growing ecosystem of processors, systems and software developed around PCIe.

key features of Virtium M.2 and Mini Card SSDs:

• Up to 3.3PB of writes over a drive’s lifetime
• 50% less power draw than other small-form-factor PCIe SSDs
• Full BOM control and PCN support with up to five years of uninterrupted product availability
• Up to five-year warranty

The new StorFly PCIe-based M.2 and Mini Card SSDs start at $70 per drive.

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