ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 17, 2009 SiliconSystems, Inc., a world leader in advanced storage technology, today announced its new SiliconDrive III solid-state storage technology platform. This new generation of SiliconSystems industry-leading SiliconDrive products features faster read/write speeds, increased capacities and mechanical scalability, which enables a wide range of markets and applications to benefit from the companys award-winning advanced storage technology. SiliconDrive III is a true drop-in replacement for hard drives in data center and embedded system storage applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data streaming media appliances.
SiliconDrive III products include 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) and 1.8-inch SATA products that offer read speeds up to 100 megabytes per second (MBps) and write speeds to 80 MBps. The new products will be available beginning in the second quarter of 2009 in capacities up to 128 gigabytes (GB).
SiliconSystems new SiliconDrive III solid-state drives are ideal for a broad range of data center, industrial and embedded system applications that require an advanced storage technology solution with mechanical scalability ranging from 2.5-inch drive form factors to smaller MiniBlade or CFast form factors, said Gary Drossel, vice president of product planning at SiliconSystems. The faster speeds and larger capacities of SiliconDrive III are ideal for high-end Enterprise System OEM requirements, and help enable new multimedia data streaming applications such as IPTV, Video on Demand (VOD) and digital video surveillance appliances that require a high level of performance and reliability where failure is not an option.
For increased reliability, every SiliconDrive III product is integrated with SiliconSystems field-proven advanced storage technology, which includes the companys patented PowerArmor, SiSMART and SolidStor technologies that address critical OEM design considerations such as the elimination of drive corruption due to power anomalies, the ability to monitor a SiliconDrives useable life in real-time and integrated advanced storage technologies that ensure data integrity and SSD life for multi-year product deployments.
About SiliconSystems
SiliconSystems is a world leader in advanced storage technology engineered exclusively for the high performance, high reliability, multi-year product lifecycle requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market. The companys patented SiliconDrive, SiliconDrive II, SiliconDrive III, SiliconDrive Blade and SiliconDrive
EP technology exceeds the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, industrial, embedded computing, data center, military and medical markets. SiliconSystems is based in Aliso Viejo, California. Additional company and product information is available on the companys website at www.siliconsystems.com.