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UM-SSD (PCIe Mini Card)

ULTRA MOBILE PC'S

STEC Designs Optimized for Mobile Applications

Mobile PCs have long sought the optimal mix of size, power, and battery life. The emerging Ultra Mobile PC category is no different, in fact, the size and battery life attributes are even more important than standard notebook PCs. The STEC Ultra Mobile SSD (PCIe Mini Card) provides portable PC designers with a compelling hard disk drive option that provides benefits over traditional hard disk drives in the areas of:

Size (50% smaller than a 1.8” hard disk drive)
Power consumption (50%+ lower power than a mobile hard disk drive)
Performance (faster boot and seek times)
Durability (solid state design means no moving parts and more tolerant to temperature extremes)
Ergonomics (quieter than rotating hard disk drives and helps to eliminate the need for noisy cooling fans)

The industry standard PCI express mini card format also provides an easy drop-in replacement for hard disk drives in many of today’s ultra mobile PC designs enabling system designers the quickest possible time-to-market.

IMPLEMENTATIONS

	Ultra Mobile PCs
	Thin Clients

	Embedded System Mainboards

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

	Compact Design
	Durability – Resistance to Extreme Environmental Conditions

	Low Power Consumption
	Compatibility – Standard Interface/Protocol

BENEFITS

High Performance	Low Power
Compact Design	Compatibility and Flexibility

HIGH PERFORMANCE

Solid state storage provides typical performance enhancements resulting in shorter system boot times as well as lower latency due to reduction of seek times that are an inherit shortcoming of rotating drives. Solid state storage also resumes more quickly from standby states as there are no platters to “spin-up” like there are with rotating drives.

LOW POWER

Solid state storage consumes less than half the power of traditional rotating hard disk drives (0.9W compared to 2W+) thereby increasing mobile PC battery life.

COMPACT DESIGN

Solid state storage allows smaller designs than is capable with traditional hard disk drives. Designs like the UM-SSD based on the PCI express mini card mechanical specification allows ultra mobile PC designers to achieve the smallest possible designs without sacrificing performance while at the same time reducing overall power consumption and increasing durability and time-to-market.

COMPATIBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY