Industrial, Medical, and Military Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card

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We supply the following authentic industrial grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Cards to military, medical, and industrial customers.

Amtron	APRO	Pretec
(replacement for Sandisk)	(replacement for Sandisk & SiliconSystems)

These industrial grade ATA flash PC cards are designed for industrial, medical, and military applications and are much more durable and reliable than the consumer grade and the "industrial" consumer-grade cards. The industrial grade ATA flash memory PC cards are built to endure severe operating environments such as extreme cold and hot temperatures, continuous vibration, high shock impact, intensive read-write cycles, etc. The industrial grade PCMCIA ATA flash memory cards feature vital benefits such as wear-leveling, write protection, error correction, sustained write speed, shock and vibration strength, and temperature range extension. Such features are essential to industries that require a more robust and rugged digital storage option to ensure repeatable and reliable operation.

These high speed PCMCIA ATA flash cards are designed to perform at the highest degree of reliability and compatibility for customers in the computer, networking and telecommunication industries.  You can use these ATA flash memory cards for monitoring and data collection/storage device, laptop/notebook PC, PCMCIA equipped PC, etc.  These industrial grade PCMCIA ATA flash PC cards offer a high performance and reliable solution for mass data storage and write intensive mobile and embedded computing, medical, and automotive applications.

[Please click here for industrial grade CompactFlash Card (CF Card)]
[Please click here for industrial PCMCIA SRAM Card]

Packaged in PCMCIA Type II (5.0 mm thick) metal housing, Pretec Tiger series ATA flash PCMCIA memory cards are available from 32MB to 16GB and in industrial standard temperature grade (0°C to +70°C) or industrial extended temperature grade (-40°C to +85°C). Free plastic travel case is provided.

Features and Specification: Please click here for Pretec Industrial Grade ATA Flash Memory PC Card data
3 year warranty,  RoHS compliant.

[The lead time for the Pretec industrial grade ATA Flash PC cards is about 3 weeks after customer places order.]

Industrial Standard Temperature Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory Cards Standard Operating Temperature (0°C to +70°C) [32°F to 158°F]
Pretec Part Number	Description	Price (US$)
PAM128-CR	Pretec 128MB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	43.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM256-CR	Pretec 256MB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	46.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM512-CR	Pretec 512MB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	54.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM01G-CR	Pretec 1GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	61.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM02G-CR	Pretec 2GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	72.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM04G-CR	Pretec 4GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	115.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM06G-CR	Pretec 6GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	158.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM08G-CR	Pretec 8GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	201.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
PAM16G-CR	Pretec 16GB Industrial Grade PCMCIA ATA Flash Memory PC Card  (metal casing, 0°C to +70°C)	375.99 made-to-order**		Buy via e-mail, fax, or phone
	Clear plastic jewel case for PCMCIA PC Card	free	included with purchase

** The lead time for the Pretec industrial grade ATA Flash PC cards is about 3 weeks after customer places order.

Authentic Industrial-Grade vs. "Industrial" Consumer-Grade

Authentic industrial grade memory cards are designed and manufactured for industrial and military applications that require the highest degree of reliability. The authentic industrial grade memory cards are built to endure severe operating environments such as extreme cold and hot temperatures, continuous vibration, high shock impact, intensive read-write cycles, etc. The industrial grade memory cards feature vital benefits such as wear-leveling, write protection, error correction, sustained write speed, etc.. Such features are essential to industries that require a more robust digital storage option to ensure reliable and repeatable operations.

Consumer grade memory cards are built with the much cheaper and less reliable controller chipset and flash memory. Some manufacturers of popular consumer-grade memory cards qualify their low-cost consumer-grade memory cards as "industrial grade" memory cards simply because the cards can survive the industrial wide temperatures and sometimes maybe the vibration and shock conditions.  However, these "industrial" consumer-grade memory cards are not durable and reliable at all.  At the beginning the low pricings of these so called "industrial-grade" memory cards are very appealing but eventually the reliability problem will appear.

PCMCIA ATA Flash PC Card Compatibility List

APRO ATA Flash PC Cards are compatible with SiliconSystems' SiliconDrive PC Cards.

APRO's auto-sensing design makes APRO PC Card an all-in-one product that envelopes the SiliconSystems SiliconDrive PC Cards including SSD-Pxxx(I)-30xx series, SSD-Pxxx(I)-31xx series, & SSD-Pxxx(I)-35xx series.

The letter (I) in the SiliconDrive part number SSD-Pxxx(I)-3xxx stands for "Industrial Wide Temperature Range, -40°C to +85°C".  Without the letter I, it means "Commercial (Standard) Temperature Range, 0°C to +70°C".  The corresponding APRO part numbers are SRAFCxxxx-HACSC-AA, where the S and C stands for Standard (Commercial) Temperature Range , 0°C to +70°C.

[The following compatibility list is by no means comprehensive and is provided for reference]

*Auto-sensing: automatically switch to fixed disk mode on IDE bus or removable disk mode on PCMCIA (PC Card)bus; also automatically detect data transfer mode and switch to PIO mode or Ultra DMA (UDMA) mode.

Warranty & Support:

• 1 year warranty for Amtron/SMART Modular Industrial Grade ATA Flash PC Cards
  5 year warranty for APRO Industrial Grade ATA Flash PC Cards
  1 year warranty for Pretec Industrial Grade ATA Flash PC Cards
• Free technical support from Amtron Technology and respective manufacturers

Please click here for industrial grade CompactFlash Card (CF Card)
Please click here for industrial PCMCIA SRAM Card