Time is money, whether on location or grabbing the attention of a passerby.  Either way, the faster data can be captured, downloaded, and displayed can equate to big savings on set or in editing and can make the difference of getting your message across quickly and flawlessly to potential customers.  STEC supports these needs through sophisticated controller technology that dramatically increases the read/write performance of NAND flash devices making data capture, manipulation, and playback effortless for the user.

Many on-location and field applications require storage products that can perform reliably in extreme environmental conditions and over long periods of time with no impact on performance.  STEC’s product development is purely focused on answering the needs for this high reliability:

• All flash products use SLC flash only, due to its superior reliability over MLC flash

• STEC has incorporated into its flash products embedded flash management algorithms, to overcome the inherent limitations of NAND Flash.

• STEC offers industrial temperature screening and heavy-duty shock and vibration testing on all of its Flash and DRAM products.

• STEC is ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified, and its engineering and manufacturing is focused on delivering high quality flash storage and memory products.

• Each STEC product includes highly customized testing tailored to the specific device to ensure full device probing during product manufacturing.

In the professional media world, original, high-quality content is the crown jewel and the make or break difference.  It’s hard enough to get the perfect shot/footage but once it has been captured, protecting it is imperative.  STEC includes advanced flash management with error checking and correction (ECC), power-down data protection, and even hardware write protection and AES security.  All this to ensure that once you have the shot, you keep until editing.

Whether on-location or in editing, the last thing anyone needs to worry about is whether their card/drive will work in their camera or computer.  STEC ensures compatibility through strict adherence to industry standards, including the CompactFlash Association (CFA), as well as thorough testing with major operating systems.  STEC also architects its products to work in a variety of removable or fixed disk modes as well as common interface modes including Ultra DMA, Multiword DMA, and Programmable I/O modes.