Newly developed 512 Gbyte SDD for Industrial Application by TDK
TDK has announced the development of new SDG4A series of serial ATA II compatible industrial solid state drives (SSDs) in 2.5 inch form factor with maximum capacity of 512 GByte. The newly product comes with TDK SSD Controller GBDriver RS4 Series with an effective access speed of 180 MByte/sec. The new SDG4A series come with latest MLC type NAND flash memory as well as a read retry function for enhanced data reliability, augmented by features of the existing GBDrive series such as auto recovery, data randomizer, and auto refresh. Read more
Development of High Speed mSATA Type Solid Sate Drive for Cloud Computing System
TDK has announced the development of high speed mSATA type Solid-Sate Drive (SSD) achieving 170 MB/s read and 70 MB/s write speeds. The new SMG3B series which support 3Gbps serial ATA measures only 30 mm x 50 mm and offers storage capacities of up to 64 GB. The new series uses TDK original SSD controller GBDriver RS3, which features powerful error correction expandable to 44-bit ECC. The new SMG3B series also comes with improved data reliability thanks to its power interruption data preservation algorithm as well as auto refresh functionality. In addition to this the SMG3B series comes with data randomizer which varies data patterns during writing in order to reduce the risk of bit errors. Read more
Release of High-speed SATA Controller ICs by TDK
TDK has announced the release of GBDrive RS3 Series, high speed SATA (Serial ATA) 3Gbps compatible NAND flash memory controller ICs, featuring data randomizer and auto-refresh functions. The new controllers with high speed access of 170 Mbyte/second supports 8 kbyte/page SLC (single-level cell) and MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memories in addition to its existing 2 Kbyte/page, resulting in high-speed SATA storage ranging from 128 Mbyte to 128 Gbyte, making them ideal to be used in wide array of applications from SATADOM other embedded storage to mobile internet devices such as smartphones or audiovisual devices like smart television and Blu-ray disc players. Read more
