Year: 2013
We’ve had many inquires at Cactus over the past several months about what happened to Western Digital (WD) Embedded Solid State Storage products, since the Cactus Technologies Industrial Grade Flash Storage products are direct replacements for them. Upon further investigation we found WD made the high level decision to close their embedded solid state storage group to...
An OEM customer had a system using a competitor's product since it was the only card that functioned in this particular legacy system. This was not an issue until they went to purchase their next production requirement and found the cards were EOL (End-Of-Life) and no longer available. They tested numerous other company's flash cards,...
Sometimes custom requirements are as simple as a special label to denote a company's name, part number or branding. Cactus offers custom labeling to our customers wanting to add a little personalization to their cards, SSDs or other flash devices. Cactus also offers laser etching of parts in addition or in place of labels. We can review...
The Military environment has some of the most challenging environmental and specialty requirements for flash storage devices. The Cactus Industrial products are designed to meet these tough challenges - Where Failure Is Not an Option!! Environmental concerns range from extreme hot to extreme cold conditions, high shock and vibration and use in harsh, sometimes unclean...
Referencing the latest report by TrendForce, Samsung continues to lead all suppliers in the production of NAND flash again in Q2 2013 with 37.8% worldwide market share. Toshiba follows in second with 28.7% with Hynix, Micron and Intel well below at 14.6%, 11.7% and 7.2% respectively. Overall NAND revenue for Q2 2013 reached a new...
When you're interviewing manufacturer's representatives to represent your product line in their specific territory, you look for honesty, integrity, ability and the desire to give that extra effort when needed to accomplish a task. July 8th, Jim Colvin of Beta Technical Sales, our sales representative in Minneapolis, MN, proved he was up to the challenge...
While performing a needs analysis at a US based medical device maker, we found several requirements that needed custom features to create a solution. The device was battery operated and needed a storage solution that met high shock and vibration specification while using very low power. Performance was not very important since the data rate...
