Cactus Technologies, Ltd. Launches 503 Series Industrial Grade 2.5” IDE SSD

Cactus Technologies, Ltd. today announced the launch of the new 503 Series Industrial Grade 2.5” IDE SSD product. Available in capacities from 1GB to 64GB, this new high performance IDE SSD has the industry’s leading industrial feature set.

The 503 Series 2.5” IDE SSD has Fixed BOM Control, High Endurance, High Performance, Rugged Construction, Long Life Cycles and Industrial Grade Wear Leveling and Defect Management.

Sai-Ying Ng, President of Cactus Technologies Ltd. remarked, “This new 2.5” IDE SSD adds a Solid State Drive to our current 503 Series product family. It has industry leading specifications for endurance and reliability, while maintaining stringent BOM Control and Long Life Cycles.”

The Cactus Technologies 503 Series Industrial Grade 2.5” IDE SSD offers the following features:

  • Fixed Bill-Of-Material Control
  • 1GB to 64GB Capacities
  • Long Life Cycles
  • >2M Endurance Cycles per block
  • Altitude spec of 100,000 feet
  • Powerful Industrial ECC and Defect Management
  • 4M Hour Mean Time Between Failure
  • 3000G Shock; 20G Vibration
  • Based on SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND Memory
  • Industry Standard 2.5” IDE SSD form factor

Joseph Chang, Vice President of Engineering, commented, "The 503 Series 2.5” SLC IDE SSD is an ideal replacement for IDE/ATA hard disk drives to add reliability to legacy computing applications. There are no design changes required to implement this conversion.”