Swissbit Adds X-500 Industrial 3Gb SATA SSD

With the industrial SATA II SSD of the X 500 Series, Swissbit AG is extending its industrial 2.5″ SSD product line.

This 2.5-inch storage solution achieves a data rate on SATA II of up to 260MB/s and 15,000 IOPS with 4k random accesses.

Added to this are such features as NCQ, TRIM, the ATA security set and in-field update.

To ensure the reliability of the power fail protected X 500 Series, Swissbit combines sophisticated mechanisms and augments these with the S.M.A.R.T. protocol, the lifetime monitoring tool or SDK and a BCH-ECC (error correction code) unit.
   
The X-500 Series is available in storage densities from 16GB to 512 GB as SLC and in MLC versions.

For demanding applications, the SLC solution guarantees data preservation of ten years, the MLC version five years according to the JEDEC standard.

The X-500 SSDs can be used in a temperature range from -40°C to 85°C and afford a high level of shock and vibration resistance. As for all Swissbit storage solutions, the long-term availability and a fixed BOM also apply for the X-500 Series.
   
With in-house system and storage specialists, besides design-in support, Swissbit also provides local FAE support including lifecycle simulations and application optimizations in the target system with stress tests and joint qualification.
   
Swissbit will be presenting its X-500 Series for the first time at electronica 2012 on November 13-16 in Munich, Germany, before the start of production in April 2013.