Transcend continues their effort into the embedded systems applications with their most recent announcement of the SATA Flash Module. The high-speed SATA flash modules specifically designed for use in thin clients, blade servers, ultra-compact sub-notebooks and space-limited industrial installations allows Transcend to offer up their lightweight and compact SATA flash memory modules. With solid-state flash […]
Here is an out-of-the-box solution for turning those high capacity Compact Flash memory cards into SATA hard drives. The CF to SATA hard drive adapter is ideal for using CF as a bootable device containing OS or application data. The adapter is compatible with Compact Flash type I and II and will provide a full […]
With the recent announcement from The CompactFlash Association (CFA) to develop an SATA interface for CF memory is another positive sign that solid state memory for laptops and computers will become the normal. Despite the fact of Mr. Shigeto, chairman of the CFA board, indicates this move is to further solidify CompactFlash memory as the […]
Turning MicroSD Cards into a RAID-Based SATA Drive The clear size difference—and less obvious protocol gap—between SD memory and standard hard drives has historically limited the use of SD cards as primary or secondary storage in desktop systems. Recent converter technology, however, has closed this gap. Smaller, faster adapters now make it possible to group […]
Helium? The gas most commonly associated with balloons and chipmunk voices has recently seen use in Western Digital’s hardware. The memory provider unveiled a new set of their helium-filled drives this week, aimed at personal and small business use. While some of their sizing options are above and beyond what many users would care for, […]
CFast is a variant of Compact Flash. A traditional Compact Flash card is based off ATA or IDE bus for data transfer. Since most CF cards are used for embedded applications, the forum was looking to increase speed. They did this by creating CFast which is a technology based of Serial ATA bus. This means […]
IC design houses Genesys Logic and Alcor Micro are expected to see their revenues grow over 20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2010 buoyed by increasing shipments of USB 3.0 controller chips, according to industry sources. Genesys indicated that it has started shipping, in small volume, its second-generation USB 3.0-SATA bridge controllers, with the […]
Super Talent is pushing out a new line of Compact Flash cards, then CFast series. The CFast has a maximum bandwidth of 375MBs which is nearly four times faster than a traditional high end CF card at 90MBs. The new CFast storage card breaks the speed bottleneck between the SSD and the device by using […]
Sans Digital is delivering a dual Compact Flash design that might rival some solid state drives at half the cost and with significant benefits. What Sans Digital has come up with is putting two Compact Flash cards into a 2.5″ enclosure to make it look and feel like a SSD drive. Using two 16GB cards […]
