Cactus Technologies, Ltd. Launches 303 Series Industrial PC Card —— Nov 26, 2008

HONG KONG —— (BUSINESS WIRE) —— Nov 26, 2008 —— Cactus Technologies, Ltd. today announced they have launched a 303 Series Industrial PC Card to complete the roll-out of their High Performance Series of Industrial Flash Storage Devices. The PC Cards have an Industry Leading Industrial feature set the market has grown accustomed to in Cactus products.

“The PC Card is the latest and final form factor to launch in our High Performance Industrial 303 Series product family. At a maximum capacity of 32Gbytes, it offers customers the highest capacity removable device in the market as well as offering a high speed solution for legacy systems,” said Sai-Ying Ng, President of Cactus Technologies Ltd.

The 303 Series PC Cards contain our new state of the art controller and allows us to offer the many high performance specs as follows:

• Capacity points of 128, 256, 512Mbytes, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32Gbytes⁽¹⁾
• Up to 35Mbytes/sec sustained read and 20Mbytes/sec sustained write performance⁽²⁾
• Support for up to UDMA Mode 4, PIO Mode 4 and MWDMA Mode 2
• BOM Control & Long Life Cycles
• >2 Million endurance cycles per block
• Optional extended temperature range of -45C to +90C
• Altitude spec of 100,000 feet
• Industry Leading ECC, Wear Leveling and Defect Management
• Flash Power Down Logic
• Write Abort Protection Circuitry
• 4 Million Hour Mean Time Between Failure

Joseph Chang, Vice President of Engineering, added, "The PC Card allows customers with legacy systems to have a cost effective, high performance storage solution that will improve performance and reliability without compromises.”

Cactus Technologies is the designer, manufacturer and marketer of Industrial Flash card products using industry leading controller technology and industrial strength flash memory. Cactus Technologies, Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong and has sales and distribution channels worldwide.

⁽¹⁾ 1 Mbyte = 1 million bytes; 1 Gbyte = 1 billion bytes

⁽²⁾ Actual performance varies based on host system and application

The Cactus web site/home page address: http://www.cactus-tech.com.

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