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WD, STEC, OCZ, Anobit - Where Have They All Gone - Defunct Industrial Flash Storage Suppliers

Posted by Samuel Nakhimovsky on Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014

Can't Source the SSDs Anymore

The Industrial Flash Memory Market landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. The major suppliers of Industrial Grade Flash cards and SSDs have quietly abandoned the market and the customer base. First, about 18 months ago, Western Digital (WD) announced an abrupt end of life to their Industrial storage products. Then, about a year ago, WD had acquired STEC, a de-facto leader in the Industrial SSD space. SMART Modular's SSD division was sold to SanDisk and Anobit, an innovative SSD provider was snapped up by Apple, and finally just a few weeks ago OCZ was bought out by Toshiba in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Why did this happen, and more importantly where does a customer find a long term reliable supplier for their product needs.

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WD, STEC, OCZ, Anobit - Where Have They All Gone - Defunct Industrial Flash Storage Suppliers

Posted by Samuel Nakhimovsky on Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014

Can't Source the SSDs Anymore

The Industrial Flash Memory Market landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. The major suppliers of Industrial Grade Flash cards and SSDs have quietly abandoned the market and the customer base. First, about 18 months ago, Western Digital (WD) announced an abrupt end of life to their Industrial storage products. Then, about a year ago, WD had acquired STEC, a de-facto leader in the Industrial SSD space. SMART Modular's SSD division was sold to SanDisk and Anobit, an innovative SSD provider was snapped up by Apple, and finally just a few weeks ago OCZ was bought out by Toshiba in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Why did this happen, and more importantly where does a customer find a long term reliable supplier for their product needs.

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WD, STEC, OCZ, Anobit - Where Have They All Gone - Defunct Industrial Flash Storage Suppliers

Posted by Samuel Nakhimovsky on Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014

Can't Source the SSDs Anymore

The Industrial Flash Memory Market landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. The major suppliers of Industrial Grade Flash cards and SSDs have quietly abandoned the market and the customer base. First, about 18 months ago, Western Digital (WD) announced an abrupt end of life to their Industrial storage products. Then, about a year ago, WD had acquired STEC, a de-facto leader in the Industrial SSD space. SMART Modular's SSD division was sold to SanDisk and Anobit, an innovative SSD provider was snapped up by Apple, and finally just a few weeks ago OCZ was bought out by Toshiba in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Why did this happen, and more importantly where does a customer find a long term reliable supplier for their product needs.

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Industrial Solid State Storage Products Deliver Best Reliability and Life Span - Go For The Gold

Posted by David Chen on Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014

As the world is watching the 2014 Sochi Olympics we reflect on our device portfolio and technical capability as we challenge ourselves to provide a Gold Medal level of product and service to make us memorable and dependable for our customers..

Gold Medal In Product and Service

Product Engineering - we are the technical experts in Solid State Storage design. We select the best on breed components to fulfill the most demanding customer requirements.  Whether the customer most important criteria is performance, power budget, endurance, temperature or environmental tolerance - we have an ability to propose a custom solution for the specific customer needs. Our vast experience with high speed and high reliability board design allows us to lay out the PCB with maximum tolerances for reliable operation.

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