Netlist introduces mSATA mini/slim SSDs

Janine Love, Editor, EE Times' Memory Designline -- EDN, May 2, 2011

Netlist, Inc. has announced two new mSATA modules. The mSATA mini SSD module offers storage capacity of up to 32GB with onboard 64MB DRAM cache. The mSATA slim SSD module offers storage capacities up to 128GB with onboard 64MB DRAM cache. Both products target small form-factor applications such as datacenter equipment and embedded systems.

SATA v2.6 compatible, the mSATA modules support data rates to 3.0Gbps, expanded register 48-bit addressing mode, and power management. The mSATA mini has typical read performance up to 120MB/s and typical write performance up to 48MB/s. The mSATA slim has typical read performance up to 240MB/s and typical write performance to 190MB/s.

Supporting SLC, MLC, and ONFI 2.0 NAND Flash technologies with enhanced ECC support for 48bits of correction in 2kB, the mSATA modules can support commercial (0°C to +70°C) or industrial (-40°C to +85°C) applications. The products are well suited to enterprise and industrial environments with wide temperature, shock, vibration, humidity, and altitude variations.

Availability
Samples of the mSATA mini and mSATA slim SSDs are available now.

More Information

• Product page mini SSD
• Product page slim SSD

This article originally appeared on EE Times.