ATP Electronics NVMe M.2 SSD With Industrial Temperature Support for Industrial IoT

ATP Electronics, Inc. spearheads the implementation of industrial temperature (iTemp) support on its NVMe M.2 SSD modules.

These SSD modules support an operating temperature range of -40°C to 85°C to capably address the power and heat issues common in fanless embedded systems as well as extreme temperature variations in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, enabling them to perform reliably in harsh environments.

When operating at high speeds in high-throughput scenarios, onboard thermal sensors can detect abnormal temperature elevation and automatically enable a mechanism that adjusts performance to cool the system.

According to Peter Huang, head, embedded SSD business unit, ATP, “ATP Dynamic Thermal Throttling intelligently regulates speed and power to reduce heat without aggressive declines in performance, unlike other thermal solutions that cause abrupt drops and thus compromise stability.”

Additionally, the low typical power consumption of 3.3V makes the company’s NVMe M.2 SSDs energy efficient, translating to longer drive usage and cost savings.

The firm’s iTemp NVMe M.2 2280 SSD modules take advantage of the PCIe Generation 3.0 x4 lane interface, delivering a bandwidth of up to 32Gb/s (8Gb/s per lane), which is four to six times the data transfer speed of previous-generation AHCI protocol on SATA drives. Up to three times lower latency, sequential read-write speeds of up to 2,540/1,100MB/s and random read IO/s of 100,000, ensure fast and dependable performance to meet the data-intensive needs of industrial and mission-critical applications such as surveillance, medical imaging, and network storage systems with fast caching requirements.

Double-sided configuration achieves higher densities of up to 1TB; global wear leveling evens out the program/erase cycles across all blocks to prevent premature drive wear-out and increase drive longevity; and, TRIM support on Windows 7 and higher, as well as on the latest Linux Kernel, allows the drive to perform controller functions such as garbage collection in the background to improve overall endurance and performance.

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