Taiwan’s leading manufacturer of industrial-grade NAND Flash storage
devices, APRO, has launched the BON Series of high-capacity high-performance
Serial ATA II (SATA II) solid state drives (SSDs) in a ruggedised 2.5-inch
form factor.
The BON Series includes the highest capacity SATA II SLC (single level cell)
NAND Flash SSD available today at 256 GBytes and also the highest capacity
SATA II MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash SSD at 512 GBytes, says the
company.
In addition, the BON Series SATA II SLC SSDs are also available in data
capacities of 32 GBytes, 64 GBytes and 128 GBytes. All the drives are
packaged in 2.5-inch form factor, ruggedised metal casings measuring 9.5mm
high for all the drives except the 256 GByte drive which measures 15.3mm
high.
Ideally for embedded industrial, transportation, military and aerospace
applications, the BON Series SATA II SSDs support Fast Erase of media data
either by hardware trigger or by software ATA vendor code command across the
entire range. Drives also supporting hardware and software triggered Secure
Erase, particularly useful for military applications are planned for later
this year.
The internal dual-control RAID-0 design of the BON Series SATA II SSDs helps
deliver their high performance, providing a maximum sequential read
capability of 240 MBytes/sec with an average access time of 0.1ms and a
maximum sequential write capability of 190 MBytes/sec. The BON Series SATA
II SSDs are fully compliant with both the SATA 1.0a and 2.6 specifications
supporting the required data throughput rates of 1.5 Gbits/sec and 3
Gbits/sec. The drives weigh just 115g.
The BON Series SATA II SSDs provide an extended operational temperature
range of -40C to +85C, vibration, shock and humidity compliance to
MIL-STD-810F environmental specifications and are capable of operating up to
an altitude of 70,000 feet. In addition, they provide a mean time between
failure (MTBF) in excess of 3 million hours, endurance performance greater
than 2 million cycles with data retention in excess of ten years, says the
company.
“The BON Series SATA II SSDs are ideally suited to the growing number of
high capacity, high performance data storage applications emerging in the
European industrial, mil/aerospace and transportation markets,” said Erez
Lev, managing director of ProSaleTech, APRO’s channel management partner in
Europe. “They not only satisfy the capacity and performance requirements
that these applications increasingly demand but deliver them in a compact,
lightweight and extremely rugged package.”
