STEC Flash, Small Cards and embedded energy efficient solutions

In the search for future products that is more energy efficient; IT professionals and organizations are looking towards smaller solid state products such as memory cards and embedded flash modules. With solid state products reaching the performance similar to that of a hard disk drive and consuming less than 90% power, solid state flash is the next iteration in HDD technology replacement.

STEC offers a wide and diverse array of products suited for hard disk drive replacements with the ability to reduce power consumption to as low as 3mA compared to 12.8V for HDD.

Revolutionizing the way CompactFlash is used, STEC’s new MACH4 CompactFlash platform is a high-performance industrial NAND flash storage device suitable as a hard disk drive replacement or alternate storage device in a wide variety of industrial applications.

Because the MACH4 CompactFlash uses NAND flash technology, it has very low latency compared to a traditional hard disk drive and consumes far less power (approximately 200 milliamps or 1 watt compared to 12 watts for a standard 7200rpm ATA disk drive).

With its small footprint, high capacity (up to 32 gigabytes in Type 2 format), and throughput up to 80 megabytes per second, the MACH4 CompactFlash is an ideal hard disk drive replacement or alternate storage solution in space-constrained applications or those requiring less capacity than available hard disk drives offer including blade servers and embedded PCs.

STEC Industrial Grade Secure Digital Memory Cards are small, removable and non-volatile flash memories with a high performance interface.

Available both in small and large capacity, STEC's Industrial Grade Secure Digital cards are specifically designed, manufactured and tested to withstand extreme environmental conditions and to improve system reliability, endurance and power consumption. STEC’s small cards are the most energy efficient solutions for HDD replacments boosting a low 3mA power consumption.

STEC embedded flash products provide non-volatile, solid-state storage ideal for embedded applications. New applications for embedded flash modules are rapidly emerging due to the low cost per megabyte, lower power consumption, and inherently greater reliability than rotating hard drives. Most applications running embedded operating systems such as VxWorks, Windows, XP/embedded, and Linux don't have large data storage requirements, and a cost savings can be immediately realized. Applications such as Casino Gaming machines, Single Board Computers, and Networking Equipment, all of which require high-performance, uncompromising reliability, and a storage solution that lasts for the long life of these embedded systems.