Solid State Disks launches a new 3.5-inch flash drive for older SCSI interfaces. This presents opportunities for legacy infrastructure users.
Solid State Disks (SSDL) introduces new storage for an old standard. The manufacturer presents flash drives tailored to SCSI: the SCSIFlash-Fast. The Interface for small computer systems has been around since 1981 and is still maintained, but at the same time it is antique. In various industries such as aerospace, defense, manufacturing or telecommunications, legacy systems with SCSI storage still exist. This hardware is often critical, but the components need to be replaced. This presents a challenge because exact replicas of outdated SCSI drives are no longer available.
Clone old drives
SSDL would like to offer a solution for such customers. The new drives are capable of exactly mimicking the behavior of SCSI hard drives, with support for SASI, SCSI-1, SCSI-2 or Ultra3 and sector sizes of 256, 512, 768, 1,024, 2,048 and 4,096 bytes. It is also possible to preemptively migrate data from an old SCSI hard drive to the new drives. You can then replace the old hard drives with the new drives without the underlying system detecting any difference.
SSDL further claims that the new drives are quieter, faster and more reliable and also consume less. For older users, SCSIFlash-Fast may be the solution to their specific problem. The drives are available now, but SSDL does not publicly communicate a price.