Month: January 2015
This Infographic illustrates several key characteristics of Industrial Grade Flash Storage, showing its advantages over MLC and TLC NAND based devices.
The simplified design requirements of a serial interface have made SD Cards an ideal solution for OEMs in consumer and industrial markets. This post is a brief primer on the SD Card interface itself. The official SD Card specification is controlled by the SD Card Association (www.sdcard.org) and is available only to SD Association members. If you...
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (aka S.M.A.R.T.) is a feature on many Hard Disk Drives and Solid State Drives (SSD) to monitor the health of the drive with the purpose to forewarn of any failure. The idea behind SMART is to anticipate a future failure by using statistics and reliability data reported back from the...
Industrial CompactFlash have been used for almost two decades in applications requiring a highly reliable data storage device. Originally offered in a maximum capacity of 4Mbytes, CF Industrial are now available in capacities of 64Gbytes. CompactFlash cards were originally designed in 1995 to provide a smaller form factor flash storage device for use in consumer and...
