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admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:42:23 +0000

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Australia	Duo International Pty Ltd. Suite E8 Excen Centre 119 Willoughby Rd, Crows Nest Sydney, NSW, 2065 Tel: 61 3 9395 0111 Fax: 61 3 9395 0102 Email: sales@duo.net.au Web: www.duo.net.au
Belgium	S3S Contact: Roel De Frene Tel: ‘+32 9 261 53 10 Email: Roel@s3s.be Web: www.s3s.be
Canada	SYNNEX Corporation 44201 Nobel Drive Fremont, CA 94538 Tel: (510) 656-3333 Web: www.synnex.com
China	Arrow Electronics Co., Ltd. No 109-112 Building International Commerce & Exhibition Center No. 1001 Honghua Road, Futian Free Trade Zone Shenzhen, 518038 PR China Tel: +86 10 8202 7666 Fax: +86 755 8359 2377 Web: www.arrowasia.com Arrow Electronics Distribution (Shanghai) Co. Ltd – Shanghai Office 6/F, Building 1 Zhangjiang River Front Harbor 3000 Long Dong Avenue Shanghai, 201203 PR China Tel: +86 21 2893 2000 Fax: 86 21 2893 2333 Arrow Electronics Distribution (Shanghai) Co. Ltd – Beijing Office Room 1002, 10/F. Capital Group Plaza 6 Chaoyangmen Beidajie Beijing , 100027 PR China Tel: +86 10 8528 2030 Fax: +86 10 8528 2698 Landmark Electronics Technology Corp. B-304 Madian Classic Garden, A8 Qijia Huozi Beijing, 100088, PR China Tel: +86 10 8202 766 Tel: +86 10 8201 3580 Fax: +86 10 8202 8111 Web: www.landmark.com.cn UG-Tech – Shenzhen Office Room 2606 Oversea Friendship Building 12 YingChun Road Shenzhen, 518010 PR China Tel: +86 755 236 8473 Fax: +86 755 518 0905 Web: www.ug-tech.com UG-Tech – Shanghai Office Room 308, NO.550 HongQiao Road XuHui District Shanghai, 200030 PR China Tel: +86 21 6447 7615 Tel: + 86 21 6447 7630 Fax: + 86 21 6447 7651 Web: www.ug-tech.com UG-Tech – Beijing Office Room1306, BaiHuan Garden, NO.6 FuRongLiNan Street HaiDian District BeiJing, 100080 PR China Tel: 86 10 9609 6588 Fax: 86 10 9609 6588 8007 Web: www.ug-tech.com AsiChip Technologies Co., Ltd. Contact: Jason Lee 30A Zi Teng Xuan, Cai Tian Ming Yuan Cai Tian Road, Fu Tian District Shenzhen, 518033 PR China Tel: +86 755 8296 4343 Tel: + 86 13828806060 (Shenzhen) Tel: +86 13817388419 (Shanghai) Fax: +86 755 8296 4360 Email: jason@asichip.com Ja Ho Ja (HK) Int’l Development Ltd. Contact: Mr. Liu Gang Room 1605, Building E Farenheit Garden, No 218 Wu Han, PR China Tel: +86 27 8264 1996 Fax: +86 27 8264 1942 Atria Information Technology (China) Co., Ltd. 12th Floor, The First Phase, Block A Gao De Zhi Di Square No.8 Zhujiang Xi Road Zhujiang New Town Guangzhou City, 510320 PR China Tel: +86 13609720007 Tel: +86 20 28017205 Fax: +86 20 28017205 Email: chenyu@atria-tech.cn Web: www.atria-tech.cn
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Europe	Arrow OCS Contact: Stefano PersichittiTel: +39 02 66125 621 Email: spersichitti@arroweurope.com Web: www.arroweurope.com Avnet Technology Solutions Contact: Sati Bamrah Tel: +44 (1344) 355831 Email: Sati.Bamrah@avnet.com Web: www.avnet.com Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH Contact: Roger von Tesmar Tel: +49 (0)89-9090199-31 Email: roger.vontesmar@bostondeutschland.de Web: www.bostondeutschland.de Happyware Tel: +49 (4105) 77000-21 Email: hlueders@happyware.de Web: www.happyware.de MEV Contact: Torben Niermeyer Tel: +49 (5424) 2340-25 Email: tniermeyer@mev-elektronik.com Web: www.mev-elektronik.com Starline Contact: Bernd Widmaier Tel: +49 (0)7021-487 2-00 Email: b.widmaier@starline.de Web: www.starline.de
France	Eurocomposant Contact: Muriel Ferry Tel: +33 (01) 30 64 25 91 Email: MFerry@eurocomposant.fr Web: www.eurocomposant.fr
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Hong Kong	Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. 20/F, Tower Two, Ever Gain Plaza88 Container Port Road Kwai Chung Hong Kong, China Tel: +852 2484 2484 Fax: +852 2484 2122 UG-Tech Limited Hong Kong Head Office, Room 2201 Honest Motors Building 9-11 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay Hong Kong, PR China Tel: +852 2832 6661 Fax: +852 2512 2017 Web: www.ug-tech.com
India	Boston Ltd Jack Watts Tel: +44 1727 876100 Email: jack.watts@boston.co.uk Web: www.boston.co.uk
Japan	Daito Electron6, Kojimachi 1-chomeChiyoda-ku Chiyoda-ku, 102-8730 Japan Tel: +81 3 3264 0193 Tel: Contact: Kazu Hasegawa Email: khasegaw@daitron.co.jp Web: www.daitron.co.jp Global Electronics Corporation Nichibei Time 24 Bldg. 35 Tansu-machi Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, 162-0833 Japan Tel: +81 3 3260 1411 Tel: Contact: Ryoji Otsuka Email: otsuka@gec-tokyo.co.jp Web: www.gec-tokyo.co.jp Elematec Corporation Sumitomo Fudosan Mita Twin Bldg. West Wing 25F 3-5-27 Mita Minato-Ku Tokyo, 108-6325 Japan Tel: +81-3-3454-3765 Email: stec@elematec.com Web: www.elematec.com Servants International Corporation Concieria Nishishinjuku Tower’s West 4F 6-20-7 Nishi Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, 160-0023 Japan Tel: +81 3 4455 7531 Email: sales-contact@servants.co.jp Web: www.servants.co.jp
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Middle East	Eastronics Contact: Mati RodriguezIsrael Tel: +972-3-645-8773 Email: Mati.Rodriguez@easx.co.il Web: www.@easx.co.il
New Zealand	DUO New Zealand 35 Onepu RdKilbirnie Wellington , 6003 New Zealand Tel: 64-4-9393-993 Fax: 64-4-9393-994 Email: sales@duo.co.nz Web: www.duo.co.nz
Netherlands	Alcom Netherland Contact: Robert Jan Kuiper Tel: +31 10 288 25 00 Email: RobertJan.Kuiper@alcom.nl Web: www.alcom.nl
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Russia	IC Gamma Contact: Ekaterina Kovalenko Tel: +7 (81378) 25515 ext. 244 Email: kovalenko@icgamma.ru Web: www.icgamma.ru
South Asia	Arrow Electronics (S) Pte Ltd. – Singapore Office 750E Chai Chee Road#07-01/02 Technopark@Chai Chee Singapore 469005 Tel: +65 6559 8388 Fax: +65 6559 8288 Arrow Components (M) Sdn Bhd. – Penang Office Unit 8.02 – 8.05, 8th Floor, Menara PSCI 39 Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah Penang, Malaysia Tel: +60 4 229 6613 Fax: +60 4 229 6623 Arrow Electronics (Thailand) Ltd. – Bangkok Office Le Concorde Tower, Unit 606 6th FL., 202 Ratchadapisek Road Kwaeng Huaykwang, Khet Huaykwang Bangkok, 10320 Thailand Tel: +662 694 2332 Fax: +662 694 2331
Taiwan	Arrow Electronics Taiwan Ltd. – Head Office – Taipei 19/F, No.75Hsin Tai Wu Road, Sec 1 Hsi Chih 221, Taiwan Tel: +886 2 2698 2888 Fax: +886 2 2698 2900 Web: www.arrowasia.com
Turkey	Empa Contact: Cem Ozdere Tel: +90 312 4399263 Email: cem.ozdere@empa.com Web: www.empa.com
USA	Arrow Electronics 7459 S. Lima Street Englewood, CO 80112 Tel: (303) 824-4000 Web: www.arrow.com Avnet 1820 McCarthy Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035 Tel: (408) 435-3500 Web: www.avnet.com
USA Additional distributor available for the following states: Alaska, Arizona , Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida , Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington, Wyoming	SYNNEX Corporation 44201 Nobel Drive Fremont, CA 94538 Tel: (510) 656-3333 Web: www.synnex.com
United Kingdom	Boston Ltd Contact: Jack Watts Tel: +44 1727 876100 Email: jack.watts@boston.co.uk Web: www.boston.co.uk
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Superlative Quality Control (full)

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:15:46 +0000

sTec implements superlative quality control procedures to ensure enterprise-level reliability in its solid-state drives. Quality is engineered into each SSD from inception with appropriate design tolerances, component selection, and conservative component derating. Quality control procedures in manufacturing include environmental stress testing of drives and a proprietary test system called TDBI (Test During Burn-In) for DRAM DIMMs to identify components with the potential for early field failure. sTec headquarters in California and its manufacturing site in Penang, Malaysia, are both ISO certified as well.

Implementing the highest quality control in design and manufacturing

The overall goal of the sTec SSD testing methodology is to ensure a quality product and to catch defects that less rigorous testing methodologies may not. All sTec SSDs go through a comprehensive set of steps designed to fully exercise the drive and reduce infant mortality defects. After the drive’s power supply circuitry is verified and controller firmware is loaded, the interface is checked. Each drive is then placed in a thermal chamber and each block is read/write tested while cycling through and beyond the temperature range for which that product is sold. In other words, for industrial temperature drives rated to operate at -40oc to +85oc, each would actually be tested from -45oc to +90oc. This stress testing is optimized to weed out defects so that they are not shipped to our customers. This all-encompassing approach to drive testing ensures that we deliver product that lives up to our customers’ 24/7 expectations.

To improve the reliability of DRAM in its solid-state drives, sTec developed and implemented a proprietary test system TDBI that runs dynamic test patterns on a large number of DRAM DIMMs while undergoing thermal and electrical stress to identify and remove chips with “weak” bits so they are not shipped to customers. As newer DRAMs advance into smaller process geometries, there is an increase in chips containing microscopic defects in individual cells that are not serious enough to cause a failure outright, but will start exhibiting itself after of few months of field operation. sTec places the DIMMs in a thermal chamber that raises the temperature as high as 125 C and a voltage as high as 3.5 volts and then tested at a 100% utilization rate for many hours, which provides the equivalent of 3 to 6 months of early operating lifetime in a much shorter period of time. TDBI improves DIMM module MTBF by an estimated factor of 2 to 10 times, ultimately enhancing the field reliability of sTec SSDs.

sTec’s US headquarters and Penang manufacturing site are ISO 9001 certified for quality management. The Penang site is also ISO 14001 certified for environmental management as well as RoHS and OHSAS 18000 compliant. Quality control audits are regularly used to verify and make certain that procedures are in place and followed to ensure reproducible quality with every step in the process. Ongoing reliability tests are performed to monitor initial quality as well as long-term reliability of the SSDs we produce. The net result for all sTec customers is a final product with fewer than industry average infant mortality rates and reduced long-term support costs.

Benefits

Solid-state drives with exceptionally high reliability that enterprises can depend on.

sTec implements superlative quality control procedures to ensure enterprise-level reliability in its solid-state drives.

Data Path Protection (full)

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:13:04 +0000

sTec uses advanced data path protection techniques including CRC, ECC and parity protection schemes to ensure that all data in flight or at rest is protected and data delivered to host applications is the right data.

Benefits

No data corruption in the data path.

Highlights

sTec™ SSD Controller (full)

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:12:36 +0000

sTec solid-state drives feature the industry’s most comprehensive set of technologies for enhancing performance, reliability and endurance and meeting the demanding requirements of modern enterprise and cloud computing environments. At the core of sTec solutions are advanced ASIC-based controllers and firmware that are designed in-house to deliver highly reliable, durable SSDs with consistent performance over their entire useful life.

Consumer-class SSDs generally use low-cost controllers designed for low duty cycles and basic reliability. By comparison, enterprise-class SSDs combine industrial-grade MLC media with proprietary controllers and technologies to greatly extend media life and performance. These controllers orchestrate the prioritized use of system resources, including device interfaces, DRAM busses and flash channels. They run the firmware that coordinates all activities within the device and delivers advanced functionality.

sTec enterprise-class SSD controllers support the most demanding environments with heavy workloads and continuous duty cycles. The sTec controller architecture is balanced end-to-end, employing DRAM-based metadata and buffering to optimize performance. sTec adheres to interface standards, such as SAS6G, SAS12G, PCIe and NVMe, to ensure drop-in compatibility. Thin drivers with no interface translation virtually eliminate any tax on host resources for PCIe SSDs. The PowerSafe feature guarantees data integrity in the event of power loss. stec SSDs also include Secure Array of Flash Elements™ (SAFE) and CellCare™ technologies that actively manage the MLC flash device to overcome the performance and endurance challenges of the media. The result is an SSD that is truly enterprise-ready, reliable and secure.