STEC announces new s230 series of slim SATA SSDs featuring power fail protection

STEC,Inc, a leading global provider of solid state drive(SSD) technologies and products, announced the small-form factor s230 series of Slim SATA solid state drives providing an efficient storage design tailored for embedded systems. STEC's line of industrial-grade embedded solid state storage solutions that feature SATA and SATA II SSDs and capacities of up to 50GB, the s230 is a low-power, small foot print slim SATA drive in an industry standard JEDEC MO-297 format occupying less than half the space of a standard 2.5-inch drive. It features advanced PowerSafe technology, making it one of the most reliable and cost effective devices for space-constrained systems, in which protection against drive corruption. The s230 is avialble in a range of cost effective capacities from 8GB to 32GB. The s230 Series is ideally suited for space constrained, fan-less system designs where traditional storage solutions are too large. The new compact design of s230 drives fills the growing need for small format SATA SSD solution in both the integrator and OEM markets. The s230 Series leverages STECs high performance, industrial grade SSD controller and sophisticated flash management. These elements deliver high capacities in no compromise solid state storage solutions that provide embedded system designers with true plug-n-play storage devices, short design cycles and fast time to market. The s230 use of single level cell(SLC) flash media helps ensure extended endurance and reliability, as well as support for industrial (-40°C to 85°C) temperatures. The inclusion of STECs PowerSafe Technology provides instant data integrity in the evnt of an unplanned power failure. The STEC s230 Series of slim SATA SSDs are sampling now, with volume unit pricing beginning at $85.