Year: 2014
Source: DRAMeXchange I just saw the most recent NAND Supplier market share numbers and thought it would be interesting for others. A key point is the market share for SanDisk is now appearing by itself as of Q4 2013. Previously this was either reported as part of Toshiba’s percentage or not reported. Total NAND Revenue...
Military and Government applications using solid state drives (SSD) in many cases require additional features than the typical commercial or even industrial SSD have to offer. These features includes security of data, write protection, quick erasure and high shock, vibration and environmental ratings. This market need prompted Cactus to develop Military versions of our high...
SATA Interface flash storage devices continue to eat away at the IDE/PATA interface in the embedded system marketplace. This post focuses on the speed and performance of one particular embedded SATA module - the mSATA form factor. mSATA drive have 50.8mm x 29.85mm length and width providing a limited amount of space for components. Typically a controller, possibly some...
Solid State Drive (SSD) encryption is an emerging product feature. The most popular of these encryption methods is AES256. Next month, Cactus will be offering AES256 Encryption on our Industrial Grade SLC 2.5” SATA III SSD and MLC SATA III SSD. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was established by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
In today’s blog post I’m going to focus on the largest capacity mSATA SSD on the market. Since maximum capacity is not the principal focus of Cactus Technologies, it’s no surprise it is not a Cactus product. This honor goes to Samsung with their 840 EVO mSATA Solid State Drive (SSD). By using 64 of...
mSATA is a small form factor flash storage device which is used like a hard disk drive in a host computer system. The host system must have a specific connector for the mSATA drive to be inserted. As with other flash storage devices, the mSATA can be used to store operating systems, applications and other data. Both...
High performance embedded applications have a simple and reliable embedded flash storage solution in the Slim SATA (MO-297A) form factor. Leveraging the same connector of the 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD), electrical connection is a snap.Slim SATA is also referred to by its JEDEC specification of MO-297A. With dimensions of 54mm x 39mm the Slim...
I’m often asked how Cactus Technologies differs from SanDisk in the flash storage market. It’s an understandable question because at first glance it appears the products we sell are the same. What is a solid state drive used for is a good starting question. In reality, Cactus rarely competes with SanDisk since there is a wide gap...
The Bill-Of-Material (BOM) for a product is list of all the components and pieces that are needed to build that product. The importance of understanding the BOM is to understand what makes up the part you are buying. For flash storage devices, the BOM includes the list of the controller, flash and other components. It...
SATA is a computer bus specifically for connecting mass storage devices to host systems. SATA stands for Serial ATA and is the follow-on interface to the PATA (Parallel ATA) interface originally designed in 1986. The Serial ATA (SATA) interface was created in 2003 by the Serial ATA Working Group, which was later incorporated as a...
