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\nThe SiliconDrive III SSD product family has been designed to provide fast-sustained data transfers, which makes it perfect for streaming data applications in embedded systems, military and media-centric data center applications. SiliconDrive III SSDs have also been designed to provide extremely high data integrity, which is needed by for these embedded applications. SiliconDrive III offers a powerful combination of features that deliver the high performance and high reliability with low total cost of storage ownership required by OEMs.<\/p>\n
Vertical Markets
\nAutomotive and transportation
\nData center media streaming and specialty appliances
\nHigh performance network devices
\nMedical equipment
\nMilitary storage systems
\nVideo surveillance<\/p>\n
Sydney Australia,\u2014 June 22, 2009 \u2014 WD\u00ae today announced that it has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive\u00ae III SSD product family based on technology from its March 2009 acquisition of SiliconSystems. The company\u2019s new SiliconDrive III products feature faster read\/write speeds and increased capacities, and offer mechanical scalability, making them a perfect storage solution for embedded system and data streaming applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data center media appliances.<\/p>\n
SiliconDrive III SSDs include 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) and 1.8-inch Micro SATA products featuring native SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gbps) or ATA-7 interfaces with target read speeds up to 100 megabytes per second (MBps) and write speeds to 80 MBps in capacities up to 120 gigabytes (GB).<\/p>\n
\u201cSiliconDrive III is the first example of how WD plans to productize solid state technology developed by SiliconSystems. The launch of SiliconDrive III will also enable WD to leverage its global sales and distribution channels to accelerate the adoption of SSD technology beyond SiliconSystems\u2019 traditional embedded systems OEM customer base into data streaming applications such as multimedia content delivery systems and data center media appliances,\u201d said Michael Hajeck, senior vice president and general manager of WD\u2019s solid state storage business unit. \u201cSiliconDrive III is an ideal solution for OEMs that require increased performance, capacity, reliability and data throughput in their applications.\u201d<\/p>\n
SiliconDrive III has been designed and optimized for high performance and high reliability in demanding 24×7 applications in the embedded systems, media appliance and data streaming markets. Performance and reliability is achieved through the integration of the company\u2019s patented and patent-pending advanced storage technologies in every SiliconDrive III product. The company\u2019s patented and patent-pending PowerArmor\u00ae, SiSMART\u00ae and SolidStor\u00ae technologies address critical OEM design considerations such as the elimination of drive corruption due to power anomalies, the ability to monitor a SiliconDrive\u2019s useable life in real-time and integrated advanced storage technologies that ensure data integrity and SSD life for multi-year product deployments.<\/p>\n
Product Summary Download High resolution Images and Product Specs About WD WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital\u00ae and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company’s Web site (www.westerndigital.com<\/a>) to access a variety of financial and investor information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Products Based on Third-Generation SiliconDrive Platform Markets and Applications The SiliconDrive III SSD product family has been designed to provide fast-sustained data transfers, which makes it perfect for streaming data applications in embedded systems, military and media-centric data center applications. SiliconDrive III SSDs have also been designed to provide extremely high data integrity, which<\/p>\n
\nManufacturer: Western Digital
\nProduct name :\u00a0 SiliconDrive\u00ae III SSD\u00a0
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.wdc.com\/en\/products\/index.asp?cat=21<\/a>
\nDistributors: Control Synergy (www.controlsynergy.com.au<\/a>)
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\nWD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.<\/p>\n