Month: January 2014

SMART (often represented as S.M.A.R.T.) stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Its purpose is to report specific data from rotating Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Drives (SSD) related to the reliability of the device. This data can then be analyzed to anticipate potential failures in the near future and predict the remaining...

Industrial applications requiring the highest reliability, a small physical size and low pin count interface are well served by Industrial Grade versions of SD interface flash devices. The vast majority of SD interface flash products in the market are consumer level products – basically great for a mobile phone, but not very reliable in an...

When searching for flash storage devices many specifications can be used to make a decision. In this post I will review maximum and sustained transfer rate specs that are important, but in many cases not indicative of the results you will actually see in your application. The maximum bus speed and sustained read and write...