14 DAY TRIAL // It's one thing to make an mSATA solid-state drive and another to create one that can withstand rigorous conditions like in factories and rugged PCs used in the field. Greenliant has just made such an SSD.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Greenliant has introduced a series of SSDs that can withstand rigorous conditions, like -40 to +85 degrees Celsius temperatures (-40 to 176 degrees Fahrenheit).
Made from 2-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND flash memory chips, the drives have 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB capacities. That means they are mostly good for SSD caching.
There are 1-bit-per-cell (SLC) NAND drives too, which are longer lived, but they come in only 8, 16 and 32 GB.
Looking at them, I can say that the newcomers are more symmetrical than other mSATA drives I've seen. Pretty thin too.
The MLC mSATA ArmourDrive SSDs are called GLS86FB, while the SLC ones are named GLS86FA. All of them have ball grid array (BGA) form factor and use SATA technology for communication with motherboards.
They also have backup power circuitry and power failure detection support built into them. Unfortunately, Greenliant didn't say what prices they GLS86 ArmourDrive SSDs had.