The Velocity SI-Lite has automatic Error Correcting Code checks

Feb 5, 2014 19:11 GMT  ·  By

Industrial solid-state drives don't need to be all that fast, not as fast as their consumers counterparts anyway, but they do need to possess high endurance. ATP's Velocity II show this.

They don't even have SATA III support (6.0 Gbps). Instead, they are SATA II SSDs.

On the flip side, they are made of SLC (single-level cell) NAND Flash chips, not multi-level. This should provide twenty times more program/erase life cycles over other MLC Flash.

Also, the firmware is calibrated specifically for data integrity. ATP has even implemented an AutoRefresh feature, which automatically launches ECC checks (error correcting code).

It's a pretty straightforward way of preempting uncorrectable failures during read operations. AutoRefresh also moves data to healthy blocks before that can happen.

ATP's Velocity SI-Lite SSDs (133 / 181 MB/s read/write, 4 Gb to 64 GB capacity) will be used in military applications, networking, industrial automation/equipment, transportation. No price is known.