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. 

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.

SiliconSystems Compact Flash Cards for Industrial Applications:

Silicon Systems compact flash cards are made-to-order only. If the cards are not in stock, lead time is about 4 weeks.

1.  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.  Check the -3xxx suffix above before you choose the parts.

2.  Commercial-Temperature Compact Flash Cards:

With rugged housing; Operating Temp.: 0 ~ +70 deg C.  
High shock & vibration-resistance, meets 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. Check the -3xxx suffix above before you choose the parts.

  PSI-Apro Industrial-Grade Compact Flash Cards: 

APRO's WPCF and SPCF series cards below have plastic frame and use fast 3S controller and Samsung NAND APRO's WR and SR series cards are ruggedized and built inside of metal casing. Please click here for more info.

These high-speed industrial-grade CF cards below are shock and vibration-tolerant and can withstand extreme conditions.

Operating Temperature: 0 ~ +70 degree C for standard commercial temp cards, or -40 ~ +85 degree C for wide-temperature cards.  
Vibration: 15G peak-to-peak; Shock: 1500G. Meets MIL-STD 810F standards.
Supports: either PIO 4 mode (16.6 MB/sec, 45x) or UDMA (66.6 MB/sec, 150x) and wear-leveling. 

WPCF and SPCF series cards have plastic frame and use fast 3S controller and Samsung NAND type flash. Please click here for product specifications and here to check the part #s and performance report.
APRO's WR and SR series cards are ruggedized and built inside of metal casing. Please click here for more info.


Note: 
1. Most of the parts listed below are made-to-order only and there is a 2 -3 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. The following APRO CF cards can be set either as a removable disk or a "fixed disk". Please specify in your order.

PSI-Apro WR & SR-Series Industrial-Grade Rugged Metal-Casing Compact Flash Cards:  New & Fast!
RoHS. Metal Casing. Meets MIL-STD 810F standards. 
Please click here to check the specifications.

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
Choice of PIO modes or DMA modes up to UDMA-4

The following WR series Industrial Grade Rugged Metal CompactFlash Cards, from 16MB up to 8GB, are RoHS-compliant. They are built with the high-end ATA Flash controller and mainly  Samsung Industrial-Grade SLC NAND Type Flash memory chips.  The inside of WRCF series cards have an optional coating of MIL-I -46058C conforming silicone, which is designed to endure against moisture and atmospheric contaminants.

The WRCF Series 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.

For more detailed information, please click here to check the specifications and here for part # and performance report

* Note: 
Not all IDE sockets can support UDMA mode. To be compatible with older IDE sockets, PIO mode is set as default for PSI-APRO CF cards to support up to PIO-4 speed. If you are sure your socket can support the UDMA mode and your application requires up to UDMA-4 speed, please choose the correct part # accordingly!

SimpleTech Brand Industrial Grade Compact Flash Cards:

Note: SimpleTech's CF cards now have a lead time of 3+ weeks.

1.  Industrial Wide-Temperature Compact Flash Cards:
With rugged housing; Operating Temp.: -40 ~ +85 deg C.  Vibration: 15G ; Shock: 1000G. 
True IDE and WMDMA modes. Sustained transfer throughput up to 10MB/sec.
For product information, please click here.  5 year warranty.

2.  Industrial Commercial-Temperature Compact Flash Cards:
With rugged housing; Operating Temp.: 0 ~ +70 deg C.  Vibration: 15G ; Shock: 1000G. 
True IDE and WMDMA modes. Sustained transfer throughput up to 10MB/sec.
For product information, please click here.  5 year warranty.