14 DAY TRIAL // ATP Electronics, a company specialized in developing memory products for the embedded and industrial markets, has just announced a new series of ruggedized Single-level Cell (SLC) SSDs designed to operate in rough environments that would make most other solid state drives fail.
ATP’s new SSDs were released into the Velocity SI Pro series and are guaranteed to withstand temperatures ranging from -40 to +85 degrees Celsius, compared to the 0-70 degrees Celsius range supported by regular solid state drives.
In order to achieve this feat, ATP designed the new SSDs to feature a special metal enclosure and used only carefully selected components.
At the heart of the Velocity SI Pro drives stands an unnamed industrial controller that ATP says also supports AES 128/256 encryption.
The controller can be paired together with 30, 60, 120 or 240 GB of SLC (single-level cell) NAND Flash memory.
Its performance varies according to the size of the SSD, but the largest drives are capable of reaching sequential read speeds of 500MB/s, while the maximum write speeds are also rated at 500MB/s. As far as 4K random reads are concerned, these are said to reach up to 60,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second).
ATP Velocity SI Pro SSDs also come equipped with both ATP SMART Life Monitor and Secure Erase technologies.
ATP SMART Life Monitor offers flash health feedback to the host and prevents data failure by detecting the percentage of remaining life in the storage device, while ATP Secure Erase is designed to purge sensitive data by following protocols from NSA (National Security Agency), and DOD (Department of Defense) standards.
All of ATP’s Velocity SI Pro SSDs come in the 2.5-inch form factor and feature a SATA III (6Gbps) interface. No information regarding the release date, or pricing, of the drives has been disclosed by the company.