XMC-554C 1TB NAND SATA Drive

The XMC-554C is a rugged, high-performance, reliable, and power-efficient NAND flash Solid State Drive (SSD) solution. The XMC-554C does not have any moving parts, offering significantly lower power consumption and an order of magnitude enhancement in reliability in environments with vibration and contaminants, compared to traditional rotating hard disk drives (HDD). Also important is the clear performance advantage, due to the lower latency and higher data transfer rates. This translates to significant advantages in typical operational settings, and more critically, in high-risk combat environments.

The XMC-554C provides two independent mSATA interfaces, one per “drive” providing up to 1 TB of MLC NAND flash. The XMC-554C supports Industry-standard NAND flash Error Correcting Code (ECC) and wear levelling and bad block management. The wear-leveling algorithm spreads the program/erase cycles evenly across the media, including the over-provisioning sectors, avoiding premature device failure due to frequent data overwrites on the same data. The XMC-554C tracks each flash block’s write/erase history and will immediately retire blocks if the block fails during an erase or program operation, or if the wear cycle count go beyond the rated cycle count of the flash device.

The XMC-554C finds its typical applications in adverse environments, serving as a reliable solution for tasks such as data recording, video recording, map storage, mission data storage, database management, and data logging.