Replacement SCSI Drives for Military & Aerospace Applications

Solid State Disks Ltd

Dependable Data Storage Solutions

We design and manufacture solid-state-based, form-fit-function replacements for failing electromechanical SCSI drives for military and aerospace applications.

The data storage drives currently used in military and aerospace systems have been proven through extensive tests and certification before entering active service several years or even decades ago.

At the heart of which these drives will be commercial products/parts – that have either been ruggedised or protected for use in mil-aero applications – which are now obsolete. This, along with failing reliability, is creating considerable maintenance challenges in sectors in which availability and durability are essential.

Our SCSI drives for military and aerospace applications use industrial grade memory and can be used to replace a wide variety of electromechanical SCSI drives (hard disk, floppy disk, magneto optic and even tape) that would have been installed decades ago and are now long obsolete.

We also make solid-state replacements for:

  • PATA/IDE drives,
  • ESDI drives, and
  • SMD drives.

All of our drives are direct swap-in replacements – so no modifications need be made to the host system – and have already been proven in several mil-aero applications.

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Wide Range

We have more than 80 swap-in modern replacements for legacy drives that have either internal hard disk drives (HDDs) or use removable media such floppy disks or tapes.

Our replacements employ latest technology electronics, and the storage media is either a Compact Flash (CF) or CFast card. Other than switching over to our hardware, you need make no other changes to your system or its software.

We can also duplicate your existing data so that the switchover is seamless, or you can do it yourself using our DuplicatorPlus (see below).

Once your new drive is in place, your system will interface with it as if it’s always been.

The easiest way to find a replacement for your legacy drive is use our Flash Memory Product Selector. There you will be able to filter by form factor (e.g. 3.5”), type (e.g. fixed disk), interface (e.g. SCSI 68-pin), max read/write speed (e.g. 10MB/s), CF storage (single or dual), and whether or not you want the new drive to have an Ethernet port.

Note, if none of our 80-plus solutions meet your requirements, we can make a drive for you: reverse engineering your legacy drive and building a solid-state-based, form-fit-function replacement. Indeed, we pride ourselves on our ability to reverse engineer a variety of yesteryear electronic devices.

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DuplicatorPlus

This can be used to copy just the data or a full image of most SCSI-1 and -2 interfaced drives – such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and digital versatile disk (DVD) drives – on to a CF card, which itself can then be copied or duplicated.

Benefits include:

  • Ease of use.
  • Compact and portable.
  • Minimal system downtime to clone or copy.
  • It is not always necessary to remove the legacy drive from its host in order to make a copy or clone.
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Touchless Removable®

Where legacy drives use removable media such as tapes or floppy or optical disks, our drives use CF or CFast. These cards can be treated in the same way as the old media, i.e., removed and replaced as desired.

However, all our drives are available with an Ethernet port, enabling them to be accessed via your local area network (LAN).

This allows you to:

  • Copy/backup CF card images to other devices on your network.
  • Restore an earlier CF card image to your local drive.
  • Connect remotely for any other drive maintenance issues.

Adding a drive to your network is simply a case of ‘plug & play’, and a major benefit of using Touchless Removable is that you can greatly reduce the need to physically access your drive.

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Project & Obsolescence Management

Replacing a legacy drive often involves more than swapping hardware. Ideally, the replacement should be timed to coincide with scheduled maintenance. Also, there might be safety and compliance issues with which to contend.

We can produce and manage the project to synchronise drive replacement to meet your business goals.

By engaging with us early we can determine when your legacy drive will be nearing its end-of-life and schedule its replacement so that your operations experience minimal disruption.

Also, once your new drive is in place, we can manage any obsolescence issues it might face, and we can guarantee the availability of functionally equivalent devices.

Don’t delay. It is not a case of ‘if’ your old electromechanical drive will, rather a case of ‘when’. Unless your prepared you could lose valuable data, and your host system could be out of action for a long time.

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Maintaining Lease

You can contain costs and avoid capital purchases entirely under our Maintaining Lease service.

The cost of repairs, software updates and provision of compatible products (in the event of obsolescence) can be covered for up to seven years.

Our service is available as a full maintaining lease or a maintenance lease for the solution that best meets your business needs.

Or, to put it another way, any data storage device is a ‘means to an end’. You are primarily interested in having the ability to store and access data reliably and securely. Accordingly, let us take care of providing the ‘means’ so that you can focus on your operations.

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Host Systems Supported

Our experience to date includes making SCSI drives for military and aerospace systems including:

AED 6200LS / AED 6200LD Disk Systems
Bering OptiPac System (with 7698N MO drive)
CAE F717 Aero Simulator
DEC StorageWorks
E3 AWACS Removable Media Assembly (RMA)
F-16 Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Life Extension
Harris 1000 Series
Harris 100 (with Vulcan OS) Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
Harris NightHawk NH-5800 Simulator
Harris 4822 NightHawk 1000 & 4000 Simulators
HP1000 (with RTE-6/VM OS)
IBM AS400 and RS6000 Computers
IBM 590, 595 and 43P Servers
IBM 7013-590 (with AIX 4.3 OS) Computing System
Intel Intellec MDS-800 Test Equipment
Intel RMX NODE-N for Radar System
Parametric Surveillance System FG type MEKO Hydra Class (MEKO 200HN)
Reflectone (CAE) Flight Safety (Turbo Prop FFS) Simulator
Raytheon Condor ATC BI6 / ATC BI6M / ASR11 Radar System
Thales C90 (7576) Motorola Simulator
Thales / CAE 737-700C Simulator (with Gould / Encore computer system)
Thales / CAE 737 Simulator (with Gould / Encore 32/27 computer system)
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Our CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™ drive can be programmed to replace the behaviour of the data storage drive in any system. We also offer a full custom service. Contact our specialists to discuss your requirements. We’re here to help.