Smart Modular: M.2 6Gb SATA SSDs With SafeDATA Technology

SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. announced its M.2 SATA XR+ product family equipped with SafeDATA power loss protection technology.

These new SSDs are SATA-III compliant and are optimized for reliability in networking, telecom and industrial applications.

Available from 32GB to 512GB in an M.2 double-sided, 22mmx80mm form factor, they are manufactured to stringent specifications of tier 1 OEMs.

Like other SMART SATA SSD products, the M.2 SATA XR+ product offers enterprise S.M.A.R.T. attributes and features that help to monitor many aspects of the drive’s health. It offers sequential read and write speeds up to 540MB/s and 320MB/s, respectively. Native Command Queuing and internal data cache are functionality built into the SATA protocol to enable performance.

New M.2 products come with proprietary SafeDATA technology, which combines power loss detection and hold-up circuitries with a controller firmware algorithm to flush in-flight data from volatile cache to NAND flash memory in order to safeguard data against corruption and/or loss during an SPL event. The technology can prevent many system issues including as OS corruption. Mission critical applications can benefit from this technology to ensure an SPL event does not cause system failure or loss of user data.

“SafeDATA technology addresses a growing need in applications where every piece of data is crucial and data loss cannot be allowed,” said Mike McClimans, senior director of SMART’s flash product line. “SMART is proud to introduce a line of M.2 SATA products designed for the specific needs of our OEM customers. In choosing SMART’s M.2 SATA XR+ product with SafeDATA technology, customers can rest assured that their data is safe in mission critical applications.“

M.2 SATA XR+ with SafeDATA technology is available for customer sampling, with volume production in Q1 2015.

SMART was showcasing its M.2 SSD with SafeDATA technology at Electronica 2014 being held in Munich, Germany, November 11-14, 2014.