TDK: Five Series of Reliable SSDs With 3D NAND

TDK Corporation announces flash storage products with five series, available since December 2020, optimized for industrial, medical, smart grid, transportation and security applications.

All 5 series use GBDriver GS2, TDK’s proprietary NAND flash memory control IC, which supports SATA.

As 3D flash memory technology advances, flash storage solutions with capacities over 1TB are more widely used, but data reliability requirements continue to become more sophisticated.

With flash storage integrated into edge devices in industrial equipment, and other industrial IoT devices mostly used to store OS or device applications, the demand has increased for reliable storage devices that also protect user data.

In addition to the auto refresh and data recovery features included in the existing GBDriver series, TDK’s proprietary GBDriver GS2 features new ECC (LDPC) memory and RAID features, as well as enhances data reliability.

The lineup also provides storage capacities from 16GB to 1.6TB.

A standard feature of all 5 series is the internal power backup protection circuits, with 2D MLC NAND flash memory, and write protection with Unified Write Filter (UWF) for Windows 10. Power interruption tolerance is also enhanced with 3D TLC NAND flash memory.

The 5 series offer strengthened security features, including a new firmware anti-tampering feature, TDK’s original anti-spoofing security feature, AES128/256-bit encryption, and ATA security, to protect users vs. falsification and the leakage of data stored in NAND flash memory.

Main applications

• IoT devices such as information terminals and edge computing systems
• Industrial computers, factory automation (FA) equipment, railway and transportation service equipment
• Banking terminals, ticket-vending machines
• Medical and data analysis equipment
• Smart grid equipment
• Security terminals and other security equipment

Product: Series

• M.2 SSD Type 2280-D5-B-M / 2240-D5-B-M: SNT2A series
• CFast card: CAT2A series
• 2.5-inch SSD: SDT2A series
• Half Slim SSD: SHT2A series
• mSATA SSD: SMT2A series