Swissbit Presents F-200 Series CFast Card

With the new F-200 series CFast card and the SATA CompactFlash card, Swissbit AG has extended its CFast portfolio with a new processor technology, which has enabled it to design SLC storage cards with a capacity of up to 64GB.

The F-200 series includes an SATA II (Spec 2.6) interface and is compatible with ATA-7 and ATA-8. Thanks to their reliability, monitoring methods, optimized TCO and guaranteed long-term availability, these cards are suitable for use in the following sectors: industry, automation, medicine and transportation as well as communication and networks.

The reliability is achieved through wear leveling, read disturb management and the BCH-ECC (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem-Codes) unit, which can correct up to 24 bits per 1,024 bytes using a tried-and-tested procedure.

Only SLC flash storage cells are used, which have been tested to ensure reliability, and developed and optimized algorithms for flash handling. Thanks to TRIM command support for 4KB random write access, the F-200 series can achieve up to 600 IOPS which is unusually high for CFast cards.

In order to eliminate problems related to unexpected storage failures, Swissbit has equipped the power fail safe F-200 series with a S.M.A.R.T. protocol and Life Time Monitoring.

The CFast cards achieve read/write speeds of up to 130MB/s with a maximum power consumption of 0.9W. They are compatible with the CFast Specification 1.1 and now also support the SATA and CFast power save modes.

The F-200 Series will be available from August with storage densities of between 2 and 64GB. Long-term availability with a fixed Bill of Materials as well as shock and vibration resistance are guaranteed.

Swissbit Design-In is available to provide support with its own inhouse system and storage specialists.