Virtium Will Bring Industrial 3D NAND-based SSDs to Market

Virtium Industrial 3D NAND-based SSDs

Virtium, a privately held American manufacturer, products semiconductor memory and solid-state drives for data storage in embedded systems, industrial/machine-to-machine designs and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.

Recently, it has announced that it will bring industrial-grade 3D NAND-based drives to expand its extensive StorFly family of SSDs. Let’s see some features of the solid-state drives.

Use 3D NAND Flash’s Lower Cost

The new SSDs will leverage 3D NAND’s lower cost per bit that is enabled by NAND flash dies being stacked for higher density, as opposed to the traditional planar method of producing flash.

The drives are designed completely to ensure the endurance and reliability can come to expect from previous NAND generations, especially in extreme and industrial-temperature environments rather than the simple production-temperature screening of the most current 3D-based solutions that claim to support industrial temperature.

By contrast, earlier-announced industrial-temperature 3D NANS lacks the endorsement of the vendor. Thus, it is possible that longer-term reliability issues exist.

According to Virtium, 3D NAND has become the actual flash technology for enterprise and client SSDs and it is expected to account for more than 80 percent of NAND’s total production in 2019.

Besides, 3D NAND flash is poised to revolutionize enterprise and industrial solid-state storage due to the scalability and cost-per-bit merit. And the new Virtium 3D NAND-based StorFly industrial SSDs show an integrated example of how this technology combined with the industrial design expertise. Literally, a new dimension in storage can advance a wide range of market segments.

Interface, Form Factor and Capacity

The new Virtium industrial 3D NAND SSDs will be available in a wide range of interfaces, form factors, and capacities.

They support SATA, NVMe and USB interfaces. As to form factors, the new Virtium industrial SSDs offer 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, M.2, mSATA, CFast, Slim SATA and eUSB. In capacity, they will be available from 60GB to 2TB.

Advanced Monitoring and Management Features

The new SSDs provide the advanced monitoring and management features of Virtium’s Intelligent Storage Platform, which are designed to offer easier drive qualification, protection against unexpected power-loss, deeper SSD insight, higher endurance, and advanced security. And all is at a lower cost per gigabyte than the SSDs based on 2D planar.

What’s more, all the SSDs include Virtium’s advanced technologies like vtGuard®, vtSecure™, vtView®, and vtTools™, giving a clear advantage for data protection, solid-state storage monitoring, optimizing and qualifying of SSDs.

Additionally, the new industrial drives have an optional AES-256 encryption engine that is able to self-encrypt.

Final Words

To sum up, Virtium industrial 3D NAND-based SSDs leverage 3D NAND flash’s lower cost per bit and they can satisfy the critical requirements of embedded and IIoT applications, such as high endurance, power-loss protection, industrial temperature (-40ºC to 85ºC), locked bill-of-materials costs (with PCN support), tolerance to high shock and vibration, lower operating power and security.

If you have a need, please get one. To learn more information about the new StorFly 3D-NAND-based SSDs, as well as Virtium’s solid-state storage and memory solutions, visit the official website of Virtium.