TDK trots out industrial CompactFlash cards / SSDs

Not just everyone can get away with consumer-level kit, and if you plan on keeping that Counter-Strike server running for another four years without so much as a hiccup, you should probably look into some industrial-strength materials. To that end, we present to you a new pair from TDK: a U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash card and a line of PATA SSDs, both of which boast a maximum capacity of 16GB. Both lines combine the original GBDriver RA8 U.DMA 6-compatible NAND Flash memory controller with a high-frequency SLC NAND Flash memory module for read speeds of up to 50MB/sec and write speeds up to 30MB/sec. You'll also find an error correction function scalable to 15 bit/sector ECC to provide high data reliability -- remember, zero hiccups -- and a static wear leveling function to greatly increase the write life span. Sadly, no pricing figures are disclosed, but both crews should start shipping next month.

[Via SlashGear]

[Christian @ Nov 18th 2008 4:25PM]

The read/write speeds of these drives make them useless for anything but storage.
You cant expect it to work at all with applications that need constant read/write.

[matt @ Nov 18th 2008 5:54PM]

Eh, idk, that is kind of fast for this type of SS media; I've run XP on slower drives with no problem. Heck, the SSDs that come in the Eee are slower. The thing is though, these probably aren't intended for average Joe desktop consumer. Seeing that these are industrial spec devices, they most likely have a wider temperature range than your average SSDs - this means they're probably intended for use in embedded systems where a light weight embedded OS will be used with any regular disk writing minimized or eliminated all together. When you're using XP embedded or Linux, 50MB/s reads is plenty fast.

[Fusion Fuzo @ Nov 18th 2008 4:29PM]

NICE, Piracy standed SSD's, will go nice with my pirating rig 3 7 dvd recorders and 2 vhs and 2 cd burners and 4 computers

I love piracy with over 750 blank dvd's and 300 vhs tapes

[xmrgamerx @ Nov 18th 2008 5:02PM]

who the hell is buying pirated VHS?

[Patriks7 @ Nov 18th 2008 5:03PM]

There are too many complicated acronyms and numbers in this post :(

[Fusion Fuzo @ Nov 18th 2008 5:11PM]

xmrgamerz I dont sale pirated tapes anymore, mainly dvd's and soon blueray their a big bussiness in pirating and i thank TDK, SONY, MAXELL, PHILLIPS the companys I started of with, plus piratings legal

[loocas @ Nov 18th 2008 5:29PM]

Sure, this'll hold-up at the interrogation...

[wolfgang @ Nov 18th 2008 7:51PM]

Have fun with the felony charges since no matter what if you distribute or attain illegally you're screwed.

[Oli D @ Nov 18th 2008 6:14PM]

PATA ssd, what a shame

[Scott @ Nov 18th 2008 10:45PM]

Aren't SSDs already pretty durable? Maybe I'm missing the point, but
aren't "industrial SSDs" a bit redundant?

[Deoki @ Nov 19th 2008 9:53PM]

If it is a ZIF connector PATA SSD I would love to stick one of those in my Aspire One.