Serving the Critical Data Storage Needs
of Industrial and OEM Customers
Serving the Critical Data Storage Needs
of Industrial and OEM Customers
Flash Storage Solutions for Embedded Designs
High Reliability Flash SSDs, Cards and Modules for Industrial Applications
Fake Industrial Grade Flash Storage Devices | SSDs, Flash Cards and Modules
Posted by Biraj Jamalayam on Thursday, 12 Jun 2014
Fake Industrial Grade Flash Storage Devices - Beware of Impostors
On my many trips to different parts of Asia, I never failed to be accosted by strange salesmen trying to offer jeweled Swiss watches, name brand women's bags, designer perfumes and other luxury goods. These products look extremely genuine, high attention to detail, luxury boxes, glossy user manuals. Yet they are offered for a fraction of what the same item would cost in an American store. How is this done?
It is a common knowledge that Asia is full of brand name knock-offs, which are good looking copies of the expensive luxury goods built at a low quality Asian manufacturing facility using inferior component parts. So while the offered item might look and feel like a genuine part, it sure is NOT !
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Flash Memory Controller - Heart of the Industrial Storage System
Posted by Biraj Jamalayam on Wednesday, 04 Jun 2014
Frequently we receive customer inquiries about our Industrial Storage products where they don't understand the difference between an Industrial and Consumer solution and how the technology and product quality differs.
While my colleague addressed this question from the point of view of product manufacturing, I would like to address it from the point of view of technology and specifically about the Industrial Flash Controller that transparently manages the host system interface to NAND Flash media.
As part of the NAND Flash management algorithm, Flash controller performs the following discrete tasks:
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NAND Flash Copyback Command - Hidden Potential for Drive Corruption
Posted by Samuel Nakhimovsky on Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014
Usage of NAND Flash COPYBACK Command Causes Drive Corruption and Data Loss
One of the "Beneficial" features that was added into NAND Flash operation was the COPYBACK Command.
Also known as the INTERNAL DATA MOVE (IDM) operations, Copyback was promoted by the NAND Flash vendors as a performance increasing feature which enabled the data page to be copied from one memory location to another within a NAND device without transferring the data off-chip to a Flash controller.
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File System Insight – Flash SSD Power Failure Corruption Prevention – Part 5
Posted by John Kuracek on Monday, 02 Jun 2014
