Cactus Technologies, Ltd. Launches OEM Standard Grade Series in SD Card and 2.5” SATA SSD Form Factors —— Oct 14, 2009

HONG KONG —— (PRWeb) —— Oct 14, 2009 —— Cactus Technologies, Ltd. today announced the launch of an OEM Standard Grade Series of products directed toward customers that need BOM control and Long Life Cycles without high endurance cycles. The OEM Standard Grade products will initially be available in the SD Card and 2.5” SATA Solid State Drive form factors.

Sai-Ying Ng, President of Cactus Technologies Ltd. commented,“There is a requirement by a portion of the OEM market for flash storage devices that do not have a need for high endurance cycles, but do need Bill Of Material control and Long Life Cycles. For this reason we are introducing the OEM Standard Grade product Series.”

The Cactus Technologies OEM Standard Grade Series offers the following features:

• Industry Standard SD Card and SATA SSD form factors
• Bill-Of-Material Control
• Long Life Cycles
• 100K endurance cycles per block
• Altitude spec of 100,000 feet
• Powerful ECC and Defect Management
• 200K Hour Mean Time Between Failure
• Based on MLC (Multi Level Cell) NAND Memory

Joseph Chang, Vice President of Engineering, commented, "The specifications of the Cactus Technologies Industrial Grade products are overkill for certain customer’s applications. Many of these customers also need much more BOM control and a Longer Life Cycle than off the shelf Consumer cards offer. This is the market segment that the Cactus OEM Standard Grade offering addresses.”

MLC NAND based products, including Cactus OEM Standard Grade products, NOT recommended for Applications running the Operating System from the Flash Storage Device (use Industrial Grade).

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.

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

Cactus Technologies and the Cactus logo are trademarks of Cactus Technologies, Ltd., registered in the U.S. and other countries.  Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are trademarks of their respective holder(s).