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  • PCcardsDirect.com industrial grade PCMCIA ATA Type II cards available for commercial, aviation and industrial uses.

    PCcardsDirect.com industrial grade PCMCIA ATA Type II cards available for commercial, aviation and industrial uses.

  • PCcardsDirect.com offers a full range of industrial compact flash cards for commercial, aviation and industrial applications.

    PCcardsDirect.com offers a full range of industrial compact flash cards for commercial, aviation and industrial applications.

SD Card

SD Card

Your direct source for military industrial grade SSD storage, leading provider of storage devices to electronic manufacturing services and solutions companies. Offering commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions. Offering over 18 years of SSD storage experience the experts at PCcardsDirect are poised to assist you with your current, future, and replacement card needs. PCcardsDirect offers; controlled bill of material (BOM), SLC technology, shock resistance, vibration resistance, high reliability & endurance through wear leveling algorithms, wide temperature ratings of -40°C~+85°C, long product life cycles, complete customer service: pre-sales, sales and post-sales. Here at PCcardsDirect.com we work with you to find a long term solution for future, present and past projects. We offer a full selection of industrial grade and temperature rated, compactflash, CFast, PCMCIA ATA PC Cards, 1.8”, 2.5”, 40, 44 pin vertical drives, SATA Drives, mSATA Mini SATA Disk, SLC USB and SHD Half Slim SATA Disk. Our capacities range from 16MB to 1TB.
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Industrial Compact Flash

Industrial Compact Flash

PCcardsDirect Industrial CompactFlash Cards are industrial temperature grade -40°C ~+85°C to fulfill various specialized applications in normal or harsh operating environments. PCcardsDirect unique AUTOSENSE feature allows for a seamless transition from other cards. Due to great advantages in non-volatile solidstate flash, CompactFlash Cards are more durable than conventional hard disk drives and consume around 5% of the power required by small disk drives. Industrial CompactFlash Cards are typically used in aviation, transportation, GPS systems, and land surveying equipment as well as other data storage devices. PCcardsDirect Industrial CompactFlash Cards are your best solution for critical applications requiring a long term supply using consistent components. Supports Wear-leveling and advanced bad sector management algorithms - Advanced ECC (ErrorCode Correction) technology - +5V or +3.3V operation, capacities from 16MB up to 16GB are available.
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Industrial PCMCIA Cards

Industrial PCMCIA Cards

PCcardsDirect PCMCIA ATA Flash Cards are industrial temperature grade -40°C~+85°C to fulfill various specialized applications in normal or harsh operating environments. PCcardsDirect unique AUTOSENSE feature allows for a seamless transition from other cards. Due to the great advantages of non-volatile solid state flash, PCMCIA ATA Flash Cards are more robust than conventional hard disk drives and consume around 10% of the power required by small disk drives. Industrial PC cards are used in aviation, transportation, GPS systems, and land surveying equipment as well as other data storage devices. PCcardsDirect Industrial PC cards are your best solution for critical applications requiring a long term supply using consistent components. Capacities ranging from 16MB to 16GB.
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Industrial 2.5" SSD Flash Drives

Industrial 2.5" SSD Flash Drives

PCcardsDirect's 2.5" IDE Flash Drives are industrial temperature grade -40°C~+85°C to fulfill various specialized applications in normal or harsh operating environments. PCcardsDirect's Industrial 2.5" Flash Drives are ideal for military mission critical applications. This Flash Drives can operate in ATA/True IDE Mode, and has Low Power Consumption, 3.3 or 5 V Operation. Standard IDE compatible, Master / Slave Selectable. Capacities ranging from 16MB to 16GB.
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Sandisk and Sewing Machines more in common than you think

16MB PCMCIA Card

Sandisk the leading producer of flash memory also lends a hand to the textile industry.  Many large textile machines have used the Sandisk SDP3BI-16-201-80, 16MB PCMCIA PC Card as storage on industrial textile machines.  Large textile producers in Italy have long used these cards to store and transfer data to and from their equipment.  These industrial rated industrial temperature cards proved to be exceptional work horses.  However, these 16MB 16bit PCMCIA cards are no longer available.  Sandisk discontinued production of these cards some seven years ago, in shift to move in to the retail consumer market.  Sandisk changed their focus from industrial products to retail consumer products.  As can be seen in your local Costco with the pallets and pallets of USB drives offered in bulk.

As production shifted to consumer goods industrial users of these cards where left with a hole in their supply chain.  As today’s new laptops no longer offers a PCMCIA slot, so too has the PCMCIA cards fallen out of  favor with manufactures such as SiliconSystems, Western Digital, and Kingston.  If you are looking to support aircraft, industrial equipment too expensive to upgrade to more traditional SD or Compact Flash cards, consider evaluating the PCMCIA ATA PC Card by PCcardsDirect.  Offering capacities starting at 16MB, PCDATA16MBI, this cards is industrial shock, vibration rated and temperature tested to -40C to +85C.  View the complete offering of Industrial PCMCIA Cards at .

Airbus A320 Aircraft Downloading Data from DFDR

PCMCIA ATA PC Card

Recent use of the APRO WRAFC001G-SDISI-UR, 1GB PCMCIA Card has proven compatible on the aircraft.

PCMCIA Cards for CNC Machines and Military Aircraft

PCDATA128MBIPCMCIA Cards the standard for storing and transferring data on to industrial equipment.  The 128MB PCMCIA ATA Card part number PCDATA128MBI, industrial temperature rated is ideal for this requirement.