The development achievements of modern science and technology have made great progress in navigation technology. Nowadays, more industries have been successfully applied in maritime, including Information science & computer technology, electronic technology, communication technology, space satellite technology, etc.

However, the ocean is full of uncertainty, that brings constantly rising requirements on data storage and maritime SSD solutions.

Maritime SSD Challenges

1. Highly Demanding Environment

The harsh environment, like high temperature, high humidity, high salinity and a large number of corrosive particles in the ocean, can easily cause thermal corrosion failure of SSD and equipment.

2. Data Security in Maritime Accidents

In the event of a maritime accident occurs, the recorded data plays an irreplaceable role in analyzing the cause of the accident and determining maritime liability. The system can accurately analyze maritime causes, divide accident responsibilities, and improve the level of maritime rescue.

Case Study

1. Customer's Problem

The conventional industrial SSD on the market are difficult to match the customer’s needs in ocean environment, that a customized exclusive product is demanded.

In addition, they emphasized the relative humidity of the ocean is very high, the maritime needs strong corrosion resistance.

2. Customized Requirements

Capacity: 64GB

Total Written Data: 60TB

Write Speed Around: 28MB/s

Operating Temperature: -20 to 80C

Writing cycles / year: 185/year

Lifetime: 8 years

3. Renice Analysis

The application has a heavy workload of more than 10TB data storage and requests a rugged connector to match the standard VITA65 backplane of the system.

Renice team recommends Rugged 10TB 3U VPX high-performance SATAIII SSD solution, delivering sustained read/write performance at 500/400MB/s, which significantly exceeds the customer’s minimum requirement of 300MB/s.

4. Renice Solution

Renice Half-Slim SATA SSD

◐ Perfect Performance

Renice Half-Slim SSD complies with the JEDECMO-297 specification in terms of interface and size, which is suitable for a variety of applications in high shock and vibration environments.

With SATAIII 6.0Gbps interface, it delivers up to 520MB/440MB/s read and write performance. Equipped with 512MB DDR3 cache, adopted SLC/MLC NAND flash memory technology and unique firmware architecture, it utmost improves the bandwidth limit of SATAIII.

◐ Top-quality craftsmanship: Conformal Coating

Conformal coating enhances the stability of the maritime SSD in harsh ocean environments such as high humidity & high temperature, and it prolongs its life.