Cactus Technologies Limited designs, manufactures and markets Industrial Flash Storage Solutions and OEM Standard Grade Solutions in a number of different forms factors meeting the needs of Industrial and OEM Customers Worldwide. Our Industrial Grade solutions have the highest specifications for Ruggedness, Temperature, Altitude, Endurance and many other areas demanded by military, medical, manufacturing, industrial and other applications. Industrial Grade products use only SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND flash memory for the highest endurance, performance and reliability.

OEM Standard Grade products are based on MLC (Multi Level Cell) NAND flash memory and offer a cost effective solution required by budget limited applications. The OEM Standard Grade offering is adequate for many applications but customers should seek the higher reliability and endurance of our Industrial Grade offering for applications running Operating Systems from the storage device.

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CompactFlash (CF) – The CF card is an industry standard established in 1994 with specifications managed by the CompactFlash Association.  Cactus Technologies Ltd. is a member of the CFA and our cards work in any CF compliant host system, while offering an Industrial Grade product that significantly exceeds specs for the most challenging demands of our industrial customer base. Cactus also offers a cost effective solution with our OEM Standard Grade offering.


Solid State Disks (SSD) – Cactus Technologies develops and manufactures both Parallel ATA (PATA/IDE) and Serial ATA (SATA) Solid State Disks. PATA devices are available in the Industrial Grade only in both the 2.5" and 1.8" form factor and are drop in replacements for rotating hard disk drives with the reliability, ruggediness, power and performance benefits of solid state memory. SATA devices are available in both an Industrial Grade and OEM Standard Grade variety. As with our other products, the Cactus Industrial Grade SSDs maintain the highest level of specs in the industry and the Cactus OEM Standard Grade offers a cost effective solution for non mission critical applications.


Disk-On-Module (DOM) – The DOM form factor is for customers that want a very small Solid State Disk that connects directly to the IDE connector on most notebooks, desktops and single board computers.  We offer both 40 and 44-pin versions to fit most customer systems.  Capacities are smaller due to the limited space for components, but we are able to maintain most of our industry leading specifications with the DOM.




PC Card – The PC Card has been in its current 68-pin form factor since 1991 with the specification managed by the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) Association.  Over the years many customer applications have migrated to the CF form factor due to its smaller size and similar functionality as the PC Card.  The principal customers of PC Cards today are companies that have legacy systems already designed with this form factor or companies that need a higher capacity than CF.  Typically the PC Card will have twice the density as the CF form factor due to additional space for memory components.


SD Card – The standard for the SD Card was established through the SD Association in January 2000.  The SD Card offers a high speed serial interface in a smaller form factor.  Many new processors have a direct interface for the SD Card and Cactus brings our industry leading specs to this form factor as well. Cactus Technologies offers an Industrial Grade SD card version that meets the needs of high endurance, mission critical applications and an OEM Standard Grade card for cost effective use in low endurance, non-mission critical applications.


SDChip – Cactus offers the SDChip product, a BGA packaged module that adheres to the SD Association’s SD interface specification. This product is an ideal high speed serial solid state storage choice for embedded applications. Cactus offers this part in a full Industrial Grade feature set version.




USB Drive – The USB Drive offers a high speed serial interface in a small form factor.  Cactus Technologies offers an Industrial Grade USB Drive version that meets the needs of high endurance, mission critical applications and an OEM Standard Grade card for cost effective use in low endurance, non-mission critical applications. .