Cactus Launches 303 Series Industrial Disk On Module
Small form factor IDE flash SSD from 128MB to 8GB
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 29, 2008 at 3:24 pmCactus Technologies, Ltd. have launched a Disk-On-Module form factor in their 303 Series of High Performance Industrial Flash Storage Devices. The Disk-On-Modules come with a full Industrial feature set and are available in 6 different configurations to fit most host IDE interfaces.
“The Disk-On-Module allows customers with the smallest space available to add up to 8GB of Industrial Solid State Storage. Our Applications Engineering and Sales support team can assist with determining which Disk-On-Module best meets your needs. The Disk-On-Module (DOM) is the latest form factor in our High Performance Industrial 303 Series product family. In addition to increasing the performance and specs over our 203 Series, we are now offering 6 different physical configurations. In both 40 and 44 pin versions, we continue to offer our vertical DOM, but have now added a horizontal right and left configuration to satisfy low profile system designs,” said Sai-Ying Ng, President of Cactus Technologies Ltd.
The 303 Series Disk-On-Module is a space saving version of Solid State Drive (SSD) that plugs directly into the IDE connector on host system motherboards. Connecting to the host IDE connector eliminates the need for an IDE cable and SSD mounting allowing for the smallest implementation of a Solid State Drive in the host.
The Cactus Disk-On-Module has from 128MB – 8GB of storage capacity, high performance interface, BOM Control and long life cycles, >2 Million endurance cycles per block, industry leading ECC, Wear Leveling and Defect Mgmt, Altitude spec of 100K feet, flash power down and write abort protection and a 4 Million hour MTBF.
Configurations Available:
Vertical – 40 or 44 pin
Horizontal Left – 40 or 44 pin
Horizontal Right – 40 or 44 pin
Joseph Chang, Vice President of Engineering, added: "The Disk-On-Module allows customers with the smallest space available to add up to 8GB of Industrial Solid State Storage. Our Applications Engineering and Sales support team can assist with determining which Disk-On-Module best meets your needs.”
Cactus Technologies is the designer, manufacturer and marketer of Industrial Flash card products using industry leading controller technology and industrial strength flash memory. Cactus Technologies, Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong and has sales and distribution channels worldwide.