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MACH4’s unique blend of performance, size, and low power makes it an ideal solution for blade servers, industrial PCs, and small format devices requiring the highest throughput in the smallest package. As more technology is packed into tighter designs, the need for smaller solid state storage formats will increase.
Many of these applications including GPS/navigation solutions, automotive entertainment systems, interactive kiosks, and even ultra-compact thin clients require the smallest possible storage solutions that, until now, lacked the performance required to make them true hard disk replacements. MACH4 solves this dilemma with a high performance, multi-channel design providing SATA or Ultra DMA performance to deliver the fastest, highest capacity, and smallest storage solution available in the industry today.
Revolutionizing the way solid state storage is used; STEC’s new MACH4 platform enables system designers to reduce the footprint and power envelope of their designs allowing them to offer unprecedented products to their customers. Because the MACH4 uses solid state NAND flash technology, it has very low latency compared to a traditional hard disk drive, consumes far less power (approximately 200 milliamps or 1 watt compared to 12 watts for a standard 7200rpm ATA disk drive), and performs much better under extreme environmental conditions – e.g. shock, vibration, altitude, humidity, and temperature. In addition, throughput up to 90 megabytes per second means no compromise in performance and high capacity (up to 32 gigabytes using MLC flash) means sufficient storage capacity for virtually all embedded applications.
There really is no limit to the design possibilities around MACH4. Because of its ultra-compact size, high throughput, and low power consumption, it can be used as a drive replacement for virtually any device with extreme space-constraints or those requiring standard hard disk like performance with much lower power demands. Because of these and many other features including advanced flash management, security, and reliability, MACH4 is truly a marvel of modern storage technology.
Embedded system designers are constantly challenged with delivering more performance to meet the needs of demanding embedded applications in the industrial space while also achieving smaller and smaller footprint designs with low power consumption and high system availability. System designers also value design flexibility enabled by a variety of SSD formats that comply to industry standards and provide support for parallel and serial interfaces, all of which ensure compatibility for simplified system integration. Platform stability with regard to continuity of supply, locked bill-of- materials, product change notifications, long product lifecycles, etc. is the final ingredient for a successful program/design.
STEC’s industrial-grade embedded solid state storage solutions offer system designers just that.
With a state-of-the-art SSD grade controllers that offers all of the performance, reliability, and data integrity of many enterprise-class SSDs (but in a much smaller format) combined with industry-standard form-factors, STEC embedded solid state storage solutions provide the ideal technical solution for embedded system designers. Enhancing this value is STEC’s commitment to supporting industrial and enterprise customers with product qualification and supply related activities as well as product lifecycle and documentation requirements.
• Solid State Drive with Parallel ATA and Serial ATA interfaces
• Four (4) independent flash channels for ultra-high performance
• SATA and ATA support
• SATA-I, Ultra DMA, MWDMA, and PIO mode support
• Full RoHS 6/6 compliance
• Support for newest flash technologies to provide long product lifecycle
• Built-in power-down data protection
• Commercial and Industrial Operating Temperature Range
• Built-in Wear Leveling and Block Management for ultra-high endurance
• Full data-path protection with built-in 8-bit ECC engine for highest reliability
• Lower power, reduced latency, and faster boot times compared to traditional hard disks
World’s fastest performance is ensured via SLC NAND flash and state-of-the-art 4-channel controller technology. Additional customized features allow for optimized performance in small sector write applications.
STEC’s proprietary state-of-the-art flash memory controllers provide high data reliability and endurance. The built-in data-path protection with 8-bit ECC engine and sophisticated wear leveling algorithms ensure the greatest data integrity and longest possible life out of NAND flash technology. Based on SLC Flash and high quality components, STEC solid state storage solutions provide an unparalleled MTBF of more than 8,000,000 hrs. In the event of host system power loss, data integrity is further assured via STEC’s power-down data protection methodology ensuring that critical data is not lost or corrupted.
Support for SATA or ATA interfaces as well as support for Ultra DMA, MWDMA, and PIO operating modes makes MACH4 one of the most flexible storage solutions for system designers to implement. And because STEC develops its own controller and firmware, the MACH4 can be adapted to meet a wide variety of timing and software requirements.
Approximately half the size of a 1.8” drive, the MACH4 is among the World’s smallest true solid state drives. Never before has so much performance been integrated into such a small solution.
STEC’s TotalDriveProtection provides multiple levels of security including password write-protection (enabled in hardware and software), read-protection, secure partitioning, and custom ID strings to allow customers to protect preloaded content from piracy.
STEC Compact Flash cards comply with CE requirements, FCC standards, and have been approved by the UL organization. The cards are also provided in full lead-free (RoHS-6) designs for worldwide deployment.
