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Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Simpletech Europe | Subject: Write-protected Flash drives
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 March 2003

Flexible write protection for Flash
drives

A new range of Flash drives allows users to define a combination of four types of access "zones" of any size and location within the module.

New Flash drives from SimpleTech enable users to define a combination of four types of access "zones" of any size and location within the module, making them the storage solution of choice for gaming, lottery kiosks, military data recorders, in-flight entertainment, telecommunications, ATMs, POS terminals and medial monitoring and diagnostic equipment The user-defined write protection is activated by a hardware switch, or by password-protected software commands, offering a choice of: restricted - no read or write; read-only; or unprotected

The write-protected drives are available in a variety of industry-standard mechanical form factors, including 2.5 and 3.5in drives; Type II and Type III ATA PC Cards; Type I and Type II CompactFlash cards; and 40-pin and 44-pin Flash disk modules in either vertical or horizontal mount configurations.

Specifications include: a sustained write speed of up to 4Mbyte/s; a sustained read speed of up to 5Mbyte/s; support up to PIO Mode 4; wear levelling for enhanced read/write endurance; a user-programmable 10byte ID for added security; and support for both commercial (0 to +70C) and industrial (-40 to +85C) temperature ranges.

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