Amfeltec Fast Arowana 2U PCIe Gen 3 SSD Ruggedized Board in Production

Amfeltec Corporation announced that it’s 2U PCIe Gen 3 SSD board is in production.

This is the latest addition to the company‘s Arowana PCIe SSD board family.

“The trend to move from mechanical HDDs to SSD affects many sectors, including industrial and automotive. Our Arowana PCIe SSD Board Family will equip players in those sectors with the first extremely fast and ruggedized storage solution,” said Michael Feldman, president and CTO,. “The reason our new Arowana board is the fastest on the market is because it incorporates up to 8 independent x4 PCIe Gen 3 SSDs. They can be combined in a RAID to reach a read and write speed of over 11.8Gb/s.“

It is a one-slot-wide, half-height (2U), half-length PCIe Gen 3 SSD Board with a storage capacity of 8TB (optionally 4TB), and industrial or automotive operation rates (-40°C to +95°C, and -40°C to +105°C, respectively).

The SSD board has a solid design, and connects to the motherboard via exchangeable male x16 PCIe adapters (optionally x8). This allows the SSD board to be inserted into different sizes of PCIe connectors without encountering well-known limitations (US Pat. #9,996,495; US Pat. #10,664,431).

This board’s thermal design is based on the combination of two anodized aluminum heatsinks, located on both sides of the board (top and bottom). An additional bottom heatsink has an optional low-noise fan with a self-adjusting operation speed. This fan allows for board deployment to locations where the air flow is poor or obstructed.

The board also has real-time performance and temperature monitoring capability (US Pat. #10,481,660).

Arowana PCIe SSD boards operate on any motherboard, and do not require motherboard bifurcation support.

Arowana family currently includes following PCIe SSD boards:

• SKU-090-01-x1
  (x1 PCIe Gen 3, 1U form factor, 1TB capacity)
  (optionally 512MB, 256MB or 128MB)

• SKU-090-01-x4
  (x4 PCIe Gen 3, 1U form factor, 1TB capacity)
  (optionally 512MB, 256MB or 128MB)

• SKU-090-38-x8
  (x8 PCIe Gen 3, 2U form factor, 8TB capacity)
  (optionally 4TB)

• SKU-090-38-x16
  (x16 PCIe Gen 3, 2U form factor, 8TB capacity)
  (optionally 4TB)