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SanDisk Aquire M-Systems Solid State and Flash Disk Manufacturer for Military Applications
04 July 2007 10:40

The acquisition of M-Systems by SanDisk for one billion US dollars is now complete and approved by the SEC. This has extended our product range and further reduced the price of the military grade solid state disks used to replace vulnerable rotating hard disks in rugged and mission-critical computing systems.

The new 5000 series low cost 'commercial' SSD products also easily exceed hard disk performance, reliability, longevity and environmental tolerance, and only lack the the full military-standard 810°F temperature range and security erase features found in the well proven 'classic' range.

Please note the new, low cost SSD5000 UATA (PATA) and SATA product range for rugged laptops, as offered by DELL and approved by Microsoft WHQL for Vista (£375 typical pricing for 32GB, the 64GB variant has just been announced) and the new CF5000 industrial grade fast compact flash device.

Also note our new Reactive SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 hard disk emulator (bridge to flash), for upgrading critical legacy defence systems that depend on unreliable and often obsolete tape and rotating magnetic disk drives.

We believe it is important that the IPTs and primary contractors are aware of the operational advantages this technology can now offer at a reduced cost when compared to rotating hard disk or tape.

M-Systems was already the largest supplier of solid state flash disk, and the clear technology leader with the TrueFSS embedded flash management system. It was also always a customer option to have the M-Systems FFD/mSSD product assembled in the USA (and now UK), and we believe it to be advantageous to our UK defence and security customers that M-Systems first class IP and mSSD/FFD technology is now owned by SanDisk, an international company with a huge combined flash production capability in California and internationally.

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