Virtium Expands High-Capacity I-Temp StorFly Industrial SSD Family

Virtium LLC announced expansion of its StorFly line of industrial-grade SSDs, boosting storage capacity in drives that protect critical data in the harsh environments of embedded systems and industrial IoT applications.

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The expanded line features industrial temperature (I-Temp) support, ensuring their continuous operation in temperatures from -40°C to 85°C.

SSD capacity for embedded-industrial applications follows a different principle than storage for enterprise and consumer applications. StorFly drives are designed to provide secure storage for demanding applications such as data logging and high-definition video and audio. These applications require a balance between the maximum allowable capacity and drive integrity that can be compromised by heat and other adverse conditions. This line with I-Temp now includes SSDs with up 4TB of capacity: 1TB M.2 SATA, 2TB M.2 NVMe and 4TB 2.5-inch SATA.

“Many industrial applications generate unprecedented volumes of data every day – often in harsh environments subject to shock, vibration and extreme temperatures,” said Scott Phillips, VP, marketing. “An oil rig, for example, can generate up to eight terabytes of data daily, and an aviation system more than two petabytes on a cross-country flight. Our mandate, therefore, is to develop industrial embedded storage solutions that ensure both drive integrity and sufficient storage capacity for those increasingly data-intensive applications, which we’ve achieved by boosting the capacity of I-Temp-supported StorFly SSDs.“

Higher-capacity, fully loaded SSDs are more difficult to design for extreme temperatures due to heat dissipation that can cause drive failure. To combat those risks – both to the StorFly SSDs and the critical data they store – the company applies its thermal management process and builds the drives around the 3D NAND flash. Moreover, because higher capacities typically mean a lower cost per gigabyte, these drives are cost-effective industrial temperature SSDs.

As with all high-capacity StorFly SSDs, the drives use 3D NAND flash that can withstand the harsh environments in which the company’s customers often deploy them. Coupled with I-Temp support, the SSDs satisfy those customers’ capacity needs, and also are able to tolerate and operate reliably in high and low temperatures common with industrial IoT, M2M and industrial-embedded applications. For an extra level of data security, the drives are available with optional SSD encryption engines. Additionally, StorFly SSDs are built for long lifecycles that ensure drive and system reliability.

StorFly SSDs are supported by StorKit software tools. These modules provide users the ability to optimize, protect, manage and qualify SSDs, and speed migration from single- to multi-level-cell flash.

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