Foremay

Foremay, One of Micromax Technology’s supplier, provides storage options featuring advanced technology and manufacturing process controls.  This results in highly reliable, ultra-fast and secured SSD and flash hard drives modules.  Some major advanced technologies implemented in our range of solid state drive include:

1. Wear Levelling Technology

NAND flash has individually erasable blocks, each of which can be put through a finite number of erase cycles before becoming unreliable. This means that after a specific number of cycles for each block, the error rate can significantly increase. Unfortunately, in most cases, the flash media is not used evenly. In certain areas, such as for the file system, the data is updated more frequently than for other areas, and will wear out sooner in those areas. ‘Wear levelling’ mitigates this issue by arranging data so that erasures and re-writes are distributed evenly across the entire device. Thus, no single sector prematurely fails due to a high concentration of program/erase cycles. Foremay uses an advanced wear levelling algorithm, which can efficiently spread usage throughout the entire flash media area. By implementing both dynamic and static wear levelling algorithms, the life expectancy of the flash media can be improved significantly.

2. Error Detection / Correction

Foremay’s solid state drives implement the BCH ECC Algorithm which is one of the most powerful ECC algorithms in the industry. This algorithm can correct up to 12 random bit errors in each 512 byte area.

3. Bad Block Management

Bad blocks are blocks that contain one or more bits for which the reliability is not guaranteed. Bad blocks can occur when the flash is shipped or can develop during the usage.

Foremay implements an efficient bad block management algorithm into the solid state hard drive to detect factory produced bad blocks as well as those that develop over the lifetime of the device. This process is completely transparent to the user through the use of S.M.A.R.T. command tools, i.e., the user will not be aware of the existence of the bad blocks during operation.

4. S.M.A.R.T. Technology

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. was developed by a number of major hard disk drive manufacturers to increase the reliability of hard drives.  This technology enables the PC to predict the future failure of hard disk drives. S.M.A.R.T. has become an industry standard for hard drive manufacturers, and now S.M.A.R.T. has also been incorporated into Foremay’s SSDs. Through the S.M.A.R.T. system, our solid state disk incorporates a suite of advanced diagnostics that monitor the internal operation of the drive and provide an early warning for many types of potential problems. When a potential problem is detected, the SSD can be repaired or replaced before any data is lost or damaged. S.M.A.R.T. monitors SSD performance, detects faulty sectors, performs recalibration and CRC error correction, etc. For more information on Foremay’s S.M.A.R.T. implementation and command descriptions, please refer to our datasheet.

5. NCQ Technology

NCQ stands for Native Command Queuing technology. NCQ technology allows the drive to manage multiple outstanding commands more efficiently, which significantly increases concurrent access capability. It solves the concurrent access bottleneck associated with traditional HDDs in some high concurrent access applications such as on-line banking, on-line ticketing and VOD. As part of the latest Serial ATA specification, NCQ requires an NCQ-capable SSD and either a motherboard or a PCI adapter card with NCQ support. NCQ technology is incorporated into select SSDs from Foremay.

6. Other SSD Technologies

Other Foremay SSD technologies include compliance with RAID, power down protection for data writing, hot plug support, secure erase, hardware encryption, write protect and active garbage collection technologies that bring Foremay with the world’s Fastest SSD.

7. High Reliability Manufacturing Systems

Since enterprise, industrial and mission critical applications require much more reliable devices than typical consumer products, a more sophisticated production management system is necessary to meet commercial and industrial customers’ requirements. The key to providing reliable devices is a product traceability and failure analysis system. Foremay’s manufacturing systems are ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified. Our SSD products are FCC, CE, MIC, RoHS and UL certified. In addition, we also have implemented statistical process control and document control on the manufacturing floor together with monthly and quarterly internal audits that ensure a controlled quality environment to produce highly reliable products.

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Foremay Product Range

• SC199 - High ruggedness for mission critical
• EC188 - High tolerance for rugged servers
• TC166 - High reliability for industrial computing
• OC177 - High integration for embedded computing

ADLINK Technology

ADLINK industrial grade solid state drives (SSDs) are designed to provide high performance, low power consumption, high reliability and high capacity in 2.5”,1.8″, mSATA and Half-Slim (MO-297) form factors. Optimized for high-throughput data transfers, ADLINK ASD SSDs are ideal for telecom server, defense, transportation and industrial applications.

Built on high speed SLC/MLC NAND flash and advanced controller technology, ADLINK ASD SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs deliver high speed sustained sequential read/write performance of up to 480 MB/s and 410 MB/s, respectively, with storage capacity of up to 512GB. By utilizing single level cell (SLC) NAND technology, the ADLINK SLC line of SSDs provides increased reliability, high MTBF and longer life cycle for mission critical applications.

Designed to industrial grade specifications, ADLINK ASD SSDs are available in both commercial (0ºC to +70ºC) and industrial (-40ºC to +85ºC) operating temperature ranges. Strict shock and vibration tests are performed to ensure that ADLINK ASD SSDs meet the needs of the most demanding applications.

Features of ADLINK SSDs

• SATA 6 Gb/s interface, backward compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s
• High performance: Up to 480/410 MB/s sustained sequential read/write speed
• Toshiba 32nm SLC or 24nm MLC Toggle NAND
• From 32 GB to 512 GB, capacity in 2.5”, 1.8” and mSATA form factor
• Real Performance – designed for and tested with realistic data sets resulting in
• Consistent performance
• Clean Sweep Technology – junk data is continuously removed to ensure “clean state”
• High IOPS – select models feature >60,000 IOPS