Cactus 900S Series Industrial SATA SLC 2.5-Inch SSD at 4GB to 128GB

Cactus Technologies, Ltd.‘s design of the 900S series industrial grade SATA II SSD takes into account the challenges faced by industrial embedded applications: including unexpected power loss, high shock and vibration, operating temperature extremes and long life cycles.

To test the abilities of write abort protection, the SSD was subjected to continuous random power interruption cycles while data was written. During testing, it performed better than any other SSD. This is due to the reliability SLC NAND, lack of susceptible DRAM cache and a controller designed for reliability algorithms at the core.

Steve Larrivee, Cactus VP sales and marketing, said: “Data loss, corruption of data or SSD’s internal meta-data are common results of unexpected power loss. The 900S Industrial SATA SSD handled power loss without issue unlike any other SSD analyzed.”

Write abort protection is an issue for embedded OEM system designers. If power is unexpectedly removed from the SSD during a write cycle, SSD updating their internal meta data during a power interrupt may become corrupted or even unusable. The more robust the SSD design the better performance.

Extreme shock and vibration environments quickly find and exploit the weakest elements of an SSD design. For this reason, the 900S SSD was created with an 8-layer PCBA and Die Cast Steel Chassis as opposed to 4-layer PCBA with plastic or stamped steel. When comparing the tight physical tolerances, it is readily apparent the quality of the Cactus 900S SATA SSD construction.

Wide temperature extremes wreak havoc on lower end SSD mainly due to their use of lower reliability NAND flash not intended for this purpose. The 900S SATA SSD only uses guaranteed extended temperature SLC NAND flash from the foundry, which has been qualified to operate for life within a -45°C to 90°C environment.

Locked-BOM Control ensures the 900S industrial grade SATA SSD purchased years from now will remain the same as the part shipping today. Without a notification to the purchasing OEM, there are no changes to the physical makeup of the SSD, controller silicon / firmware and SLC NAND memory used.

Cactus continues testing its industrial and commercial grade products in the most adverse conditions to ensure they provide OEMs the most reliable flash storage solution.

For over 10 years, Cactus has been supporting OEMs Worldwide with high reliability industrial embedded flash storage products using leading controller technology and industrial strength flash memory.

The industrial products enable OEM’s systems to operate without a fault in the harshest and most mission critical environments.

In addition, Cactus offers commercial grade embedded products based on MLC NAND, which have Locked-BOM and extended life cycles for budget limited applications.