Active Media Products Has New Line of SATA DOM Drives
Company says the products were not designed as performance storage solutions, but “appear to be the fastest DOMs on the market by a long shot.”
Active Media Products, a maker of solid state drives (SSDs) and USB drives, has a new line of SATA DOM (disk on module) drives that deliver faster performance than PATA DOMs in embedded computing applications. 
Active Media’s new SATA DOMs support sequential read and write speeds up to 100 MB per second and 42 MB per second respectively.
According to Active Media Products’ vice president of sales Jerry Thomson, the new SATA DOMs were not designed as performance storage solutions. It just happened that way. “Our SATA DOMs appear to be the fastest DOMs on the market by a long shot,” he says. “So any embedded applications that need a little more pep from the drive would benefit from these.”
A DOM, also referred to as an FDM (flash disk module), is a small flash-based storage drive that plugs directly into an industry standard port on most motherboards. These nine new SATA DOM products include three different mounting options: two 7-pin tall DOMs and a 22-pin low-profile DOM, each offered in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB capacities.
Because the SATA DOMs are SATA compliant, says Active Media, they can be easily adapted to virtually any application, including embedded computers, industrial computers, and networking, and military applications. Their industry standard Serial ATA interface and very small dimensions make them easy to design in.
These new FDMs are available now through Amazon, or to OEMs directly from Active Media. Approximate prices are as follows: 8 GB models $69; 16 GB models, $89; 32 GB models $189.
