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New Products | Symax Releases New SDA High-Speed Data Storage Module
2024-07-31
Sematic Measurement and Controls has announced the SDA series of high-speed data storage modules with four integrated M.2 solid-state drives, available in 4TB/8TB/16TB capacities, providing high-capacity, high-throughput-rate storage in a single PXIe slot.
The PXI platform's point-to-point transfer, integrated triggering and clocking system features are ideally suited for high-speed data logging system designs, enabling easy data transfer between the storage module and the system or other instrument modules.

Why High-Speed Data Storage?
High-speed storage devices play an important role in applications that need to handle large volumes of high-speed data. For example, in complex sensor fusion systems or multi-channel RF data acquisition applications, high-speed storage allows data to be written or read quickly, avoiding delays in data transfer that can affect system performance and efficiency.
What are the features of Sigma's PXIe high-speed data storage modules?
SDA series PXIe high-speed data storage modules provide high-capacity, high-throughput storage in a single PXIe slot.

Figure 2 SDA8304/SDA8308/SDA8316
The modules integrate four M.2 solid state drives, making them ideal for data streaming disc applications that require reliable and continuous data throughput, such as multi-channel RF signal recording and playback, and multi-sensor fusion data acquisition and playback.
1) Standard PXIe single-slot architecture, supports up to PCIe 3.0 x8 bus specification, with a maximum data throughput rate of >5GB/S;
(2) 4TB, 8TB, 16TB capacity optional, corresponding to SDA8304, SDA8308, SDA8316 product models;
(3) Compatible with PCIe2.0/1.0, installation in a low-speed PXIe slot will reduce the maximum read/write rate;
How does the PXI data logging playback system work?
The SDA high-speed storage module is based on soft RAID, which extends the system storage capacity of the PXIe controller to provide high-speed, massive data storage capability in a highly integrated PXIe chassis at a more optimised cost.

Figure 3 Data recording and playback system architecture
Figure 3 shows the working architecture and data flow of SDA in a PXI system. The whole system can collect and record data to SDA at high speed for further analysis; it can also read and play back the data stored in SDA to test the response of the system to be tested.
This time, Sematic released three high-speed data storage modules, SDA8304, SDA8308 and SDA8316, corresponding to the capacity of 4TB, 8TB and 16TB respectively, which can help you realise high-speed data storage applications based on PXI.