New drives for old process systems
8 Apr 2015
Computer storage specialist Solid State Disks has announced an Ethernet-based back-up and restore capability for its family of Compact Flash (CF) SCSI-Flash solid-state drives.
The SCSI-Flash CF drive is used extensively on legacy industrial process control equipment where critical SCSI-based storage drives are becoming more difficult to repair or replace as they increasingly age and fail.
As a direct, drop-in replacement, SCSI-Flash provides an up-to-date, high-reliability, solid-state and low-cost solution to the problem, the company said.
The new SCSI-Flash back-up and restore capability enables data back-ups to be made as a complete disk image of its CompactFlash card at any given point in time and transferred via an Ethernet network to be stored remotely from the legacy equipment and restored as and if needed.
Universal TCP is used for disk image transfers with remote execution of back-up and restore configuration operations controlled via a web browser and auto-online implemented on back-up completion.
The Compact Flash (CF) SCSI-Flash Ethernet back-up and restore capability can generate considerable savings in time and expense in the face of process outages, the company said.
It can also be used to replace traditional manual rotation of media with remote download of manufacturing files.
“The Ethernet back-up and restore facility adds an important new capability to SCSIFlash which has been developed in response to the demand from customers,” said James Hilken, sales director of Solid State Disks.
“There are plenty of critical legacy systems in a variety of industries that are potentially nearing end-of-life simply because their storage devices are becoming too difficult to repair or replace as they age and fail. SCSIFlash provides a low-cost solution to this.”
