Significantly increasing sustained read and write performance without compromising the Industrial Feature set that customers have come to expect from the current 203 Series of products, the fact they have launched the new 303 Series of Industrial 2.5” Solid State Drives has been announced by Cactus Technologies, Ltd.

President of Cactus Technologies Ltd., Sai-Ying Ng, declared: “The 2.5” Solid State Drive is the latest release in our 303 Series product family and comes on the footsteps of our 303 Series CompactFlash launch in April.” Ng adds: ”As with our CompactFlash, there is not a product in the marketplace that can match the combination of performance, reliability and environmental specifications of the 303 Series 2.5” Solid State Drive.”

Containing new state of the art controller, the 303 Series SSDs allow them to offer the many high performance specs as follows:

    * Capacity points of 128, 256, 512Mbytes, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32Gbytes
    * up to 35Mbytes/sec sustained read and 20Mbytes/sec sustained write performance1
    * Support for up to UDMA Mode 4, PIO Mode 4 and MWDMA Mode 2.
    * BOM Control & Long Life Cycles
    * > 2 Million endurance cycles per block
    * Optional extended temperature range of -45C to +90C
    * Altitude spec of 100,000 feet
    * Industry Leading ECC, Wear Leveling and Defect Management
    * Flash Power Down Logic
    * Write Abort Protection Circuitry
    * 4 Million Hour Mean Time Between Failure

"Our 2.5” SSD is becoming a popular replacement to “Industrialize” computing applications in rugged environments by replacing the rotating hard disk drive with solid state performance and reliability. Our 303 Series 2.5” SSD allows up to 32Gbytes of capacity with industry leading Ruggedness, Quality and Reliability,” declared Vice President of Engineering, Joseph Chang.