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Innodisk Long-Lifespan MLC SSDs Help POS Makers Avoid Storage Headaches, and Are More Cost Efficient
POS Makers Like AdvanPOS Are Adopting SSDs to Boost Performance and Reliability, and Reduce Long-Term Operating Costs
June 27, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan – Innodisk,
a designer and manufacturer of SSDs for commercial and
industrial applications, is seeing huge interest in its new storage
products from the point of sale (POS) and retail industry.
New SSD-equipped point of sale terminals and other products are making
hard disk drives obsolete in the POS industry. That's because POS
systems using SSDs beat HDD units in terms of reliability, performance,
power use, weight, size, noise, and durability – making them more cost
effective. To push this technology trend further, Innodisk developed
Evergreen-series MLC SSDs with their L² architecture to have a longer
lifespan compared to traditional MLC SSDs. Evergreen-series MLC SSDs
are also specifically designed for under-128kb applications, which
makes them optimized for kiosks, ATMs, and POS units.
Thanks to Innodisk's Evergreen-series MLC SSDs increased reliability,
POS units equipped with these Innodisk SSDs can be used in previously
inaccessible environments. For more information on the varied
applications of Evergreen-series SSDs, please visit: http://goo.gl/RBf6E.
In a recently released case study, Innodisk revealed how its customers
are now using SSD-based POS units to perform point of sale and other
customer interaction in environments previously seen as difficult or
impossible. These include extreme environments, temporary or mobile
structures, as well as locations such as supermarket self-checkouts,
where POS units are exposed to constant contact with customers.
Companies using Innodisk SSDs in point of sale units now include
national leaders in several markets, including retail and hospitality.
Innodisk SSDs offer a wide range of advantages over traditional
technology, while keeping prices competitive. These advantages include
better performance, lower power consumption, and extreme shock
resistance. Unlike HDDs, Innodisk SSDs work in a very wide temperature
range, from -40°C up to 85°C, allowing them to reach new markets where
HDDs cannot be relied upon. Furthermore, they are not vulnerable to
overheating, so they do not require cooling fans, further reducing
noise as well as removing another moving part that is prone to failure.
SSDs, in fact, do not have any moving mechanical components at all.
They also possess lower access times and less latency than HDDs, and
users won't need to undergo time-consuming defragmentation either.
According to the leading POS maker, AdvanPOS, hard disk problems are
one of the most common reasons for POS unit failure. In fact,
unreliable hard disk drives make it difficult for POS makers to serve
markets where there is high demand for their products. Innodisk's
Evergreen SSD series now makes it possible for AdvanPOS to serve these
markets with viable and reliable products.
With Innodisk's iSMART software, AdvanPOS and its customers can detect
problems with an SSD long before it fails, allowing replacement of a
malfunctioning SSD without losing data or inconveniencing customers.
“The number one reason why we use Innodisk Evergreen SSDs is that the
iSMART can monitor the health of SSDs, and notify users of the expiry
date.”, says Mr. Alcott Huang, supervisor of AdvanPOS's R&D division. “They have saved our customers, and us, numerous headaches.”
For more information about AdvanPOS' adoption of Innodisk's SSDs, please visit:
http://www.innodisk.com/edm.aspx?guid=8FD9A0207C828F1D1DBB754B54D
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About
AdvanPOS
AdvanPOS designs and manufactures advanced POS systems that satisfy
modern retail and hospitality applications. Combining industrial
talents and leading PC technologies, AdvanPOS offers a full range of
self-service and point of service (POS) systems that feature faster
operation, easier maintenance, customer-friendly displays, and
outstanding designs for the most demanding POS, kiosk, ATM, retail, and
other self-service applications.To learn more about the benefits of
Innodisk's SSD storage products, and how they are helping POS vendors
and end users, please visit http://www.innodisk.com/
About
Innodisk
Innodisk is a designer, manufacturer and solution provider of
industrial flash storage products as well as DRAM for embedded systems,
with a focus on industrial, aerospace and defense applications. Using
its wealth of experience in providing flash storage products for
embedded systems, Innodisk, since 2012 has expanded its product line to
cater to the field of cloud computing. Founded in 2005 and
headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with engineering support and sales
teams in China, Europe, Japan, and the United States, Innodisk is able
to support clients globally. With abundant experience and an unrivaled
knowledge of the storage industry, Innodisk develops products with
excellent quality, remarkable performance, great cost-efficiency, and
the highest reliability. For more information about Innodisk, please
visit http://www.innodisk.com/.