Wednesday, August 17th 2011
Active Media Products Debuts USB DOM Line
Active Media Products, a leading manufacturer of SSDs and DOMs, today announced immediate availability of 8GB and 16GB low-profile 9-pin USB 2.0 disk on module (DOM) drives that are designed for servers and embedded computing applications.
"We're continuing to expand our lineup of DOM products, which already includes 9 different types of SATA and PATA DOMs in capacities up to 64GB. These new USB DOMs are by far the smallest, lightest and lowest power drives in our DOM family," Active Media Products VP of Sales, Jerry Thomson said in a statement. Maximum active power for these USB DOMs is rated at a mere 150MA. Moreover, DOMs offer superior resistance to shock, vibration, dust and temperature extremes than hard disk drives, making them advantageous for use in industrial environments.
These Type-1 USB DOMs are designed for low-profile enclosures. Measuring just 35mm x 21mm, they have a very small footprint. AMP's new USB DOMs are available now on Amazon.com or directly on ActiveMP.com.
"We're continuing to expand our lineup of DOM products, which already includes 9 different types of SATA and PATA DOMs in capacities up to 64GB. These new USB DOMs are by far the smallest, lightest and lowest power drives in our DOM family," Active Media Products VP of Sales, Jerry Thomson said in a statement. Maximum active power for these USB DOMs is rated at a mere 150MA. Moreover, DOMs offer superior resistance to shock, vibration, dust and temperature extremes than hard disk drives, making them advantageous for use in industrial environments.
11 Comments on Active Media Products Debuts USB DOM Line
Seems kind of pricey to me for the capacities they mention.
Would have to be a mighty lean install if you wanted anything else on the drive.
Wonder what the performance of this is ?
This would be ideal for a wifi router upgrade "optware" or small embedded device that needs a lot of data capture space.
Imagine how happy a scientist with remote monitoring some volcano or tide / weather something would be with extra space like this, just remove the plastic connector and solder the cables directly on there.
Wait actually you can use a normal usb stick then remove the cover + connectors and end up with the same + chip/driver compensation.
You know, thinking about it, with Windows 8 being able to install from something like this, having this and all your drivers, etc. on it hooked up internally could be kind of nice, if you had to ever re-install Windows.