Month: July 2014
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...
The term Embedded System in general is a computer system that performs a specific function as part of a more elaborate electrical or mechanical system. This differs from the Personal Computer (PC) which is a general purpose computing device that can be used for many different applications. Since many embedded systems perform a very simple...
