Each of the Solid State Drive offerings in the SMART Modular Technologies product line is prefixed with the "Xceed" brand name (a name shared by several of the other vendor's products as well). Multiple drives are available in the line, with interface choices including SATA, PATA, IDE, and SCSI and capacities ranging from 16 MB to 160 GB.

Each of the drives is based on Flash memory, and are designed to be drop-in replacements for standard internal hard drives. Both 1.8" and 2.5" form factors are available (3.5" in the SCSI drives). The vendor also boasts industrial grade temperature certifications for the drives (see vendor for model specifics).

Current lines in the product family include (all performance metrics are for sustained read/write performance unless otherwise noted):

- XceedLite, offered with 1.8" PATA and soon 1.8" SATA II interfaces. The PATA drives ship in capacities from 4 to 32 GB and list performance of 45 MB/sec and 25 MB/sec; while the new SATA II drives ship in capacities from 4 to 64 GB with performance of 72 MB/sec and 55 MB/sec.

- XceedLite2, in 2.5" form factors, are also available with either SATA II or PATA interfaces. Capacities are 1 to 64 GB (PATA) and 4 - 64 GB (SATA), with performance of 40/23 MB/sec (PATA) and 72/55 MB/sec (SATA).

- XceedUltra, a 2.5" SATA I drive offered in capacities of 8 to 40 GB and performance of 108/63 MB/sec.

- XceedUltra2, a 2.5" SATA II drive in capacities of 8 to 64 GB and performance of 135/105 MB/sec.

- XceedUltraX, 2.5" SATA and PATA drives with capacities of 32 to 128 GB and performance of 70/60 MB/sec.

- XceedUltraX2, a 2.5" SATA drive with improved performance (90/65 MB/sec) also in capacities of 32 to 128 GB.

- XceedLite IDE, IDE interface drives in capacities of 16 MB to 8 GB. The IDE drives are offered in 1.8 and 2.5" form factors (with enclosures) and with 40 and 44-pin Mini-IDE connectors.

- XceedSCSI, offered in 3.5" narrow and wide formats as well as on a PC Card. Capacities are 1 to 32 GB (narrow) and 8 to 128 (wide), and performance is 12/9.4 MB/sec (narrow) and 31/30 MB/sec (wide). (Metrics for the PC Card format are listed as PC Card dependent.)

- XceedSecure, available in 2.5" SATA or PATA interfaces, and capacities of from 8 to 160 GB. The XceedSecure line features EraSure technology, which provides both an EraSure Clear function for quick data erasure and EraSure Sanitize for thorough data destruction (compliant with IRIG 106-07, chapter 10.8). Separate versions of the drive can be purchased with the vendor's additional ZAP technology (capacities of 32 or 64 GB), in which a hardware input can trigger the destruction of all flash chips on the drive, rendering it inoperable.

- XceedSecure2, a 2.5" SATA II drive with the EraSure technology described above. Capacities are listed at 32 - 128 GB, and performance at 90/65 MB/sec.

The newer drives of the Xceed SSD product family--including the XceedUltra2 SATA, the XceedUltraX2 SATA, the XceedLite SATA, the XceedLite2s, and the XceedSecure2 are expected to begin sampling in Q3/2008; the remaining drives described are available now.

Contact the vendor for further information.