SiliconSystems Doubling the Capacity of Embedded USB Products

SiliconSystems, Inc. announced higher capacity offerings across its entire SiliconDrive II product family supporting the industry-standard Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. In response to accelerating customer demand for its high performance small form factor advanced storage technology, SiliconSystems’ SiliconDrive II USB CF, SiliconDrive II 10-pin module and SiliconDrive II USB Blade products are now available in capacities of up to 16 gigabyte (GB), 8GB and 4GB, respectively.

"Customers have designed our SiliconDrive II embedded USB family of products into a wide variety of Enterprise System OEM applications," said Gary Drossel, vice president of product planning at SiliconSystems. "SiliconDrive II products are high performance, high reliability and multi-year product lifecycle solid-state storage solutions that enable OEM system designers to architect their systems with no design compromises."

The SiliconDrive II embedded USB product family is a part of SiliconSystems’ latest storage technology platform, which includes advanced versions of the company’s patented PowerArmor, SiSMART and SiSecure technologies that address critical OEM design considerations such as storage system reliability, elimination of drive corruption and the ability to forecast useable life.

SiliconDrive II USB CF
The patent-pending SiliconDrive II USB CF combines the performance and compatibility of the USB interface with the proven, rugged and industry-standard CF form factor, which has been the preferred form factor of embedded system designers for many years. SiliconDrive II USB CF features speeds of up to 20MBps and is available in capacities from 1GB to 16GB.

SiliconDrive II USB 10-pin
The SiliconDrive II USB 10-pin module features an industry-standard form factor and delivers the high performance, high reliability and multi-year product lifecycle storage system required by Enterprise System OEMs. SiliconDrive II USB 10-pin modules feature speeds of up to 20MBps and are available in capacities from 1GB to 8GB.

SiliconDrive II USB Blade
SiliconDrive II USB Blade is a breakthrough storage solution in an environmentally-rugged and ultra-small form factor, providing improved storage design flexibility in applications where board space and performance are critical design considerations. This innovative, industry-first, form factor is available in capacities from 512MB to 4GB.