Industrial-Grade Compact Flash (CF) Memory Cards for Mission-Critical Applications

APRO WR Series Industrial Wide-Temperature CF cards

For an overview of the nomenclature used in the NAND flash storages, please read here. (Courtesy of APRO Co., Ltd.)

Why do you need industrial-grade memory cards instead of their cheaper consumer-grade counterparts?

Industrial-grade cards are made to endure severe operating conditions such as high impact, continuous vibration, low  and/or high operating temperature. These cards are durable and can last intensive reads/writes. Certain cards are even made to be moisture-resistant. Although we also supply consumer-grade CF cards, they are not as durable. For most of the industrial applications which normally require intensive I/O cycles, the consumer-grade cards tend to fail prematurely. 
We only offer flash storage products that are High shock & vibration-resistant and meet military MIL-STD 810F standards.  

PSI supplies industrial compact flash cards by the following vendors/manufacturers. 

Want to add the boot function from your CF cards? Just add a CF-IDE adapter to your PC or embedded system. You can find the CF-IDE adapters here.

  PSI-Apro Industrial-Grade Compact Flash Cards: 
Metal casing rugged industrial-grade CF cards and plastic-casing commercial-grade CF cards are offered. 

Industrial-Grade Rugged Metal-Casing Compact Flash Cards:  
RoHS. Metal Casing. Meets MIL-STD 810F standards. 

WR Series Industrial Metal Housing Wide-Temperature CF cards

Operating Temperature: -40C ~ + 85C. Thermal Shock Test -55C ~ + 95C
Vibration: 15G, Shock: 1500G; Meets MIL-STD 810F standards

The following Industrial Grade Rugged Metal CompactFlash Cards, from 32MB up to 64GB are RoHS-compliant. They are built with the high-end ATA Flash controllers and Industrial-Grade SLC NAND Type Flash memory chips.  The inside of these CF cards can have an optional coating of MIL-I -46058C conforming silicone, which is designed to endure against static electricity, moisture, dust and atmospheric contaminants. Please click here for more information of this conformal coating.

These Industrial Rugged Metal CompactFlash Cards were approved for Environmental Testing and CF/FCC Certificate by SGS, http://www.sgs.com/ ,  the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Testing Reports and CE/FCC Certificates are ready upon request.  

Order Information:

Note: 
1. Most of the parts listed below are made-to-order only and there is a 4 weeks lead time. If you need the drives urgently and are willing to pay extra shipping costs, we may be able to arrange a drop ship from our manufacturer to you directly.  
2. Orders are non-returnable and non-exchangeable so make sure you have the right part and/or pre-approve the samples before quantity ordering. Defective cards are covered under warranty.
3. Optional conformal coating is available for 15% more than the pricing below.

Industrial-Grade Rugged Metal Frame Compact Flash Cards:

APRO Part number Prefix Decoder:

*   Note: Hermit-F and Hercules-N series cards above can have many different versions: with the following different   (-UF/-UR/-UA/-PF/-PR/-PA/-AF/-AR/-AA) suffix options. The -AA version cards are most versatile and are hence recommended for newer motherboards since they can automatically detect and switch to fixed disk or removable disk mode. It can also automatically detect and switch to PIO- or UDMA- data modes. If your applications call for a particular mode, please check the following suffix decoder and order accordingly.

-UF : UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-UR : UDMA & Removable Disk	-UA : UDMA & Auto Detect
-PF : PIO & Fixed Disk Mode	-PR : PIO & Removable Disk	-PA : PIO & Auto Detect
-AF: Auto PIO or UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-AR : Auto PIO or UDMA & Removable Disk	-AA :  Auto PIO or UDMA & Auto Fixed or Removable Disk

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Industrial-Grade Plastic Frame Compact Flash Cards:

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Industrial-Grade Compact Flash Cards with write Protection:
The Themis-A series part #s below use Toshiba flash chips. The discontinued Themis series parts use Samsung flash chips.  Specifications remain the same.

 *   Note: Hermit-A series cards above can have many different versions: with the following different versions with different  (-UF/-UR/-UA/-PF/-PR/-PA/-AF/-AR/-AA) suffix options. The -AA version cards are most versatile and are hence recommended for newer motherboards since they can automatically detect and switch to fixed disk or removable disk mode. It can also automatically detect and switch to PIO- or UDMA- data modes. If your applications call for a particular mode, please check the following suffix decoder and order accordingly.

-UF : UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-UR : UDMA & Removable Disk	-UA : UDMA & Auto Detect
-PF : PIO & Fixed Disk Mode	-PR : PIO & Removable Disk	-PA : PIO & Auto Detect
-AF: Auto PIO or UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-AR : Auto PIO or UDMA & Removable Disk	-AA :  Auto PIO or UDMA & Auto Fixed or Removable Disk

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C-1 Technology Industrial Grade Compact Flash Cards:  

Note: For the mode operation, C1' s CF card starts with the default of UDMA mode. If the system can only support PIO-mode, card will automatically switch to PIO-mode. If the system can support both and prefer to run PIO-mode, we have to make the change on default to PIO-mode at the factory. Please specify when you order.

A.  C-1 Lynx Series SLC CF Cards -

1.  Industrial Wide-Temperature Lynx Series SLC Compact Flash Cards:
With rugged metal housing; Operating Temp.: -40 ~ +85 deg C.  Vibration: 30G max; Shock: 3000G max. Meets military MIL-STD 810F standards.  5 year warranty.
True IDE: PIO-6, UDMA-4 and Multi word DMA 4 modes. Read speed up to 35 Mbytes/sec (Max). Write speed up to 16 Mbytes/sec (Max).    
For product information, please click here. For detailed data sheet, please go to here.

2.  Industrial Commercial-Temperature Lynx Series SLC Compact Flash Cards:
With metal housing; Operating Temp.: 0 ~ +70 deg C.   Vibration: 30G max ; Shock: 3000G max. Meets military MIL-STD 810F standards.  5 year warranty.
True IDE: PIO-6, UDMA-4 and Multi word DMA 4 modes. Read speed up to 35 Mbytes/sec (Max). Write speed up to 16 Mbytes/sec (Max).  For product information, please click here. For detailed data sheet, please go to here.

*Note: C1 CF cards below can have many other different versions: with the following different  (-UF/-UR/-PF/-PR) suffix options.  If your applications call for a particular mode, please check the following suffix decoder and order accordingly.

-UF : UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-UR : UDMA & Removable Disk
-PF : PIO & Fixed Disk Mode	-PR : PIO & Removable Disk

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B.  C-1 Lynx Series MLC CF Cards -

C-1 Lynx Series MLC CompactFlash Cards are an economical alternatives of the expensive SLC CF cards above.  It uses MLC Nand Flash and provides industrial grade data retention. It also conforms to CompactFlash Specification and is designed with precision mechanics to enable host devices to read/write from the CompactFlash interface into Flash Media.

Specifications:

MLC CF cards here have the same specifications as the SLC cards above. Please check at http://www.psism.com/C1 Lynx CF Card.pdf.

*Note: C1 CF cards below can have many other different versions: with the following different  (-UF/-UR/-PF/-PR) suffix options.  If your applications call for a particular mode, please check the following suffix decoder and order accordingly.

-UF : UDMA & Fixed Disk Mode	-UR : UDMA & Removable Disk
-PF : PIO & Fixed Disk Mode	-PR : PIO & Removable Disk

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WD (formerly SiliconSystems) Compact Flash Cards for Industrial Applications:

  WDC/ Silicon Systems compact flash cards are obsolete. Please use compatible APRO or C-1 parts above. 

1.  WDC Wide-Temperature Compact Flash Cards:

With rugged housing; Operating Temp.: -40 ~ +85 deg C.  
High shock & vibration-resistance, meets military MIL-STD 810F standards.
MTBF: 4,000,000 hours. 5 year warranty.
Supports PIO 0-4 and DMA 0-2 modes. 
Please click here for specifications of -3xxx CF cards or click here for -46xx CF cards' data sheet.

WDC/ Silicon Systems -30xx and -35xx compact flash cards are obsolete.  please use Apro or C-1 parts above. 
The new -3800 CF cards (Autosense, MWDMA-2, with SiSMART) replaces the old -3500 series. You can find data sheet of -3800 cards here. 

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For other industrial storage options, please click here.