Month: May 2014
Today’s post is meant to shed some light on the differences in capacity between the advertised capacity of a Solid State Drive (SSD) and the usable capacity seen when storing data through the operating system. In the old days, Hard Disk Drives (HDD) specified capacities in decimal whereas typical usage of capacity, such as megabytes, gigabytes,...
Cactus Technologies offers a wide range of Industrial Grade flash storage products to meet the needs of many different market requirements. From rugged mining equipment to precision medical devices, they provide a highly reliable device for harsh and demanding environments. A very popular form factor for these industrial applications is the Industrial Compact Flash card....
Last week I visited an OEM which designs equipment for process automation in factories. Their application needs less than 32Mbytes, but they’re using 2 and 4 Gbyte CF and SD cards as they believed these were the smallest capacity cards available. This OEM is experiencing the consumer flash card capacity treadmill. NAND component capacities double...
There’s a simple fact for Solid State Drives (SSD). The most reliable SSD use the most reliable NAND Flash and Controller technology. These are not the least expensive or necessarily the fastest devices - and they’re known as Industrial Grade SSD.Today the most reliable NAND flash is the oldest Single-Level-Cell (SLC) NAND with the widest trace...
