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Innodisk
Leads the Way in New Trends for Industrial Flash Memory in 2013
Advances
in Firmware Design, SATA III and Miniaturization
March 22, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan –
Innodisk, a major designer and manufacturer
of SSDs for
industrial applications, recently spoke about new trends and challenges
in the growing industrial flash market at the 2013 DTF (Digitimes Tech
Forum) - Embedded Technology & Application, Taiwan's largest
technology industry forum. Innodisk has been invited to speak at DTF
for three years running. This year’s presentation centers on three new
trends for industrial flash memory in 2013.
Trend
1: Back-end designs will determine the overall performance of Flash
memory
Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash memory has been adopted faster than
expected, but it has reliability and endurance limitations for
industrial applications. Innodisk has developed technology to solve
these problems and realize the true potential of MLC Flash, with their
innovative back-end design of industrial SSD’s.
These innovations include thermal sensors to monitor temperature range,
and internal heating pads to assist in heat dissipation of MLC Flash.
Innodisk has developed our new iSLC technology with our own firmware
design, introduced in the final quarter of 2012.
“We have the ability to
select the best MLC Flash memory”, says CC Wu,
director of Innodisk's Embedded Flash Division, “and our proprietary
firmware technologies make our iSLC products perform almost as well as
SLC, while keeping a lower price.”
Innodisk’s newly revised iSMART 3.0 monitoring tool analyzes all
storage devices in a system. Users can observe some key features,
including temperature, read/write performance, and lifespan of each
Flash storage device. The latest iSMART tool can also be configured to
alert users of the SSD wear-leveling status.
Trend
2: Adoption of SATA III is on the rise in industrial control
applications in 2013
SATA III (6.0 GB/s) has been the mainstream data connection interface
for consumer applications since 2011. The industrial market has relied
on SATA II for older generation and current designs, but will look to
SATA III for an increase in performance without sacrificing reliability.
As SATA III technology has matured, Innodisk has aggressively allocated
R&D resources to develop faster SSDs over the past 6 months.
After testing SATA III SSDs on the SATA II platform, we found a
two-fold increase in read/write speeds. Innodisk introduced its first
2.5” SATA III SSD product line in the first quarter of 2013, and will
release small form factor SATA III SATADOM and mSATA to the market
later this year.
Trend
3: Small form factor devices will become mainstream
Small form factor devices will become the norm in the industrial sector
in 2013, partly due to the industry's adoption of Intel's Next
Generation Form Factor standard (NGFF) specification. This
industry-wide trend of miniaturization allows data centers to pack more
units in the same amount of space and enables a dramatic increase in
data transfer speed.
Innodisk will introduce small form factor products based on Intel's
NGFF specification in the second half of 2013. The company has already
gained a foothold in the market for miniaturized modules, with its most
important product line, SATADOM, with patented Pin 7 technology.
Innodisk believes these three trends of firmware design, SATA III
adoption and miniaturization will drive industrial flash memory in 2013.
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About
Innodisk
Founded in March of 2005, Innodisk Corporation has become the
industry-leading manufacturer and solution provider of flash storage
devices and DRAM modules for industrial applications and embedded
systems, with a focus on the enterprise, industrial, aerospace, and
defense industries. Unlike competitors, Innodisk has concentrated from
the beginning on industrial NAND flash and SSD products. With its long
experience and an unrivaled knowledge of the memory industry, Innodisk
has developed a series of products with excellent quality, remarkable
performance, great cost-efficiency, and the highest reliability.