SANDISK HAS ANNOUNCED a new Industrial range of products for connected industry applications particularly honed towards Internet of Things (IoT) enablement.
The new range is designed to work even in extreme environments, such as digital signs for a walk-in freezer, surveillance in a steel mill and all points in between.
Suggested use cases include factories, utilities, industrial computing, medical equipment, surveillance cameras, digital signs, robotics, PoS solutions, large-scale printing and energy management.
"Just as NAND flash helps consumer electronics and mobile devices handle complex applications, overcome connectivity limitations and optimise bandwidth costs, we are now seeing it causing disruptive change in a wide array of industries,” said Oded Sagee, senior director of industrial and connected home solutions at SanDisk.
"We have architected our new high-endurance SanDisk Industrial flash storage portfolio to be the ideal storage for the growing ‘Industrial IoT’ market. It delivers exceptional long-term reliability and performance, even in rigorous environments that operate in extreme temperatures or require massive real-time processing and data integrity for a long duration."
The range consists of SD cards, microSD cards and iNAND embedded flash drives. All come in capacities of up to 64GB and are built with endurance in mind in terms of environment and continuous use. All are hot-swappable.
The SD cards sacrifice read/write speeds, but at 20MBps read/write under optimum conditions, it's not a figure that will be too noticeable when applied to these relatively small capacities.
The NAND flash is based on e.MMC 4.41 and e.MMC 4.51 H200 specifications with sequential read/write of 30/120MBps. It also benefits from Enhanced Power Immunity in case of pesky surges, dual-boot and dual-partition support and enhanced user-definable area SLC partitions.
SanDisk was announced yesterday as one of the founding partners of Openchain Workgroup, a Linux initiative designed to remove ambiguities in the workflow of software development.
The company announced an elastic computing focused SSD, the Cloudspeed Ultra SSD2, in August.
The Industrial range is available for sampling now across the world. These certainly aren't the fastest flash devices on the market, but they'll survive even if you're an ice cream vendor in Death Valley.
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