I am the chief
electrical architect for multi-purpose helicopters. The selection of rugged
storage unit for in-flight data records (black boxes) made my headache for a
long time. We has spent a lot of time on researching and evaluating all
kinds of aircraft black boxes. After comparing several major black box
suppliers, we finally chose one supplier. But the storage of their
product was burned at the test phase of the equipment. That really made our
R&D Dept. anxious, and we had to look for the a new rugged solid state drive
as the storage unit for the black box.
It was not easy to find the right SSDs for us though there were many
domestic SSD manufacturers; especially the rugged embedded SSDs, which only
few can provide. But their products are not the right size and cannot reach
the operating temperature requirements of -55°C ~ 95°C and 30,000 meters
altitude. Then a new employee of our department introduced a company that
can provide customers customized embedded storage of solid-state hard drive:
Waitan.
Then I contacted Waitan and talked to their technical director about the
required size and harsh performance requirements of the embedded SSDs
for black boxes. Surprisingly, they promised a month later, to provide
products to our tests. In fact, they spend only 22 days to provide the
test product to us, and through our technology department of flight
simulation test for 3 weeks, the testing results are fully compatible
with the requirements of black boxes. Later we recommended Waitan SSDs
to the black box manufacturer, specifically the configuration of Waitan
embedded SSDs in the black box which we purchased. Now Waitan is our
technology partner for rugged solid state storage solutions.
|