Solid State Drives (SSD)

Vanguard SSD Products include the entire range of State of the Art NAND Flash Technology from industry leaders like Samsung and Western Digital / SanDisk including the newest Vertical NAND technologies available.

Interfaces: SATA, SAS, NVMe / PCIe, USB, SCSI Ultra-320, PATA
Capacity: 8 GBytes to 256 TBytes
Write Data Rates1: SATA: 530 MBps, SAS: 900 MBps, NVMe: 1200 MBps
Read Data Rates1: SATA: 550 MBps, SAS: 1200 MBps, NVMe: 2000 MBps
Self Encrypting: Available
Cooling Options: Air Cooled, Conduction Cooled
Capacity: Commercial, 0 to 70 C
Industrial, -45 to + 85 C
Form Factors: Table below
Data Destruction: 10+ Options Available

A USB3 desktop docking bay is available for SATA Drives. This makes it easy to connect drives removed from embedded sytems to any computer with a USB port. Moving data for analysis is easy and convenient.

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8 GBytes
to
64 TBytes

256 TBytes

3-1/2 DD
Drive or Drive
Array Air Cooled
(Up to 64 TB)

XMC/PMC Drive
(8 GB to 4 TB)

3-1/2 SDD Air or
Conduction Cooled
(8 GB to 32 TB)

3-1/2 SDD
Slim Drive Array

3-1/2 DD Drive
Conduction Cooled

3-1/2 HH Drive Array
Conduction Cooled

3-1/2 HH Drive Array
Air Cooled

Custom Designs
for Legacy Systems

5-1/4 SHH
Compact Drive
or Drive Array

VPX, cPCI Serial,
cPCI & VME 3U & 6U Blades
Air or Conduction Cooled

5-1/4 FH Drive 
Array Air Cooled
(Up to 256 TB)

5-1/4 HH
Drive Array Air Cooled
(Up to 128 TB)

USB3 Desktop
Docking Bay

  • 3-1/2 DD = 3-1/2” Disk Drive Form Factor (1” H x 4” W)
  • 3-1/2 SDD = 3-1/2” Slim Disk Drive Form Factor (.5” H x 4” W)
  • 3-1/2 HH = 3-1/2” Half Height Form Factor (1.63” H x 4” W)
  • 3-1/2 DD = 3-1/2” Disk Drive Form Factor (1” H x 4” W)
  • 3-1/2 SDD = 3-1/2” Slim Disk Drive Form Factor (.5” H x 4” W)
  • 3-1/2 HH = 3-1/2” Half Height Form Factor (1.63” H x 4” W)


1) Maximum Rates for Sequential, Unformatted Data, for Commercial Temp Drives. Test values measured using Iometer (Iometer.org).
Formatted data rates will be lower. Random data rates will be lower. Data Rates for Industrial Temp drives (-40 to +85 C will be lower).