altec ComputerSysteme GmbH – new SiliconDrive II™ to set standards on industrial storage solutions

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 17, 2008 -- altec ComputerSysteme GmbH, the specialist for industrial flash storage media, consumer flash media and flash media duplication systems, introduces solid-state disc (SSD) solution SiliconDrive II, developed for industrial use. SiliconDrive II is a new developed part of the SiliconDrive™ family with great new features, like higher transfer performance, newer interfaces and new form factors with higher capacities.
Before large-scale production will commence in end of June 2008 evaluation samples are available by altec.

SiliconSystems consistent transformed their customer requests into action with SiliconDrive II. Reliability and monitoring for used components are very important factors for industrial use. Therefore SiliconSystems combines its singular technology like Wear-Leveling, PowerArmor, SiMART and SiSecure – first time included for free – in SiliconDrive II.

SiliconDrive II is performance-optimized for transactions with small files thereby the transfer rates increased up to 300 to 400 percent compared to the first generation of SiliconDrive.

With a look at most chipsets available for new computing designs and you will see in most cases that floppy disks and PATA interfaces have been replaced by USB and SATA. SiliconSystems also changed a lot of its product line to USB.

USB Blade is designed to be the storage solution where small size is required. SiliconSystems has partnered with connector leader Samtec to design a socket that has a latching mechanism to alleviate the mechanical issues associated with other USB mechanical form factors. The USB Blade is about one-fourth the size of a CF form factor, making it ideal for applications requiring small size and modest capacities.
The SiliconDrive II USB CF-Card takes advantage of CF-Card form factor and USB 2.0 interface. By little changes in the layout of established systems developers are enabled to use the USB interface for data storage.
Many embedded and single-board computers already have the 10-pin USB male header (actually two rows of 5 pins each) on the board. The SiliconDrive II 10-pin USB module is specially qualified for using with 10-pin header – it’s compatible to the USB modules from Intel’s Z-U130 product line.

SiliconSystems offers a series of adapters for USB connectors so that SiliconDrive II USB modules can be plugged into standard USB ports.
For copying and serialization of files and applications altec offers various CopyStations and duplication services.

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