Fremont, California. December 10, 2008- Flexstar Technology, Inc. (Flexstar) the worldwide leading supplier of storage test systems, today announced their first production test system. The Green 416B has been developed specifically for the SSD market. The Green 416B is capable of testing up to 416 2.5” or 1.8” SSD’s and is designed to be used with internal production or Contract Manufactures (CM). It supports three interfaces: uSATA, SATA and SAS up to 6G. The Green 416B has designed-in capability to support direct attached PCIe. The design of the 416B allows for easy upgrades in the field as new interfaces become available. The system supports all previously written customer tests scripts from older Flexstar products making the transition to the 416B effortless and simple. The system includes a library of complimentary SSD test scripts for easy “Plug and Play” installation.

Flexstar has developed the Green 416B at the request of several SSD customers. “These are exciting times at Flexstar with all our new product development that is going on.” said Tim Beck Vice President of Marketing and Sales. He mentioned “this is our first entry into the production market place. The company continues to see the SSD market segment expand and we now have a complete line of products that will help standardize the SSD industry testing and qualification.”

Anthony (Tony) Lavia President and CEO had this to say about the new product announcement, “With the announcement of the new 416B, Flexstar now has a “complete product life cycle testing solution” for our SSD customers. Our newly announced Green 16A is an excellent starting point for design engineers, our Green 128E chamber for life cycle testing, the Green 132B for long term reliability testing, now the Green 416B for production and the ATS product line for RMA processing.” “Because these products are all Green they save our customers additional money on power and HVAC” Tony added.
Flexstar’s Green 416B delivers accurate, flexible and repeatable testing, which Flexstar is known for in the industry, in a new energy savings package.

The Flexstar Green 416B is available from Flexstar and Flexstar business partners. The Green 416B deliveries are 8 weeks ARO.

About Flexstar Technology

Flexstar’s mission is to provide storage manufacturers and their customers with standardized and repeatable testing and qualification processes. Since producing the industry’s first commercially available disk drive tester in 1985, Flexstar has continued to be at the forefront of providing advanced, automated testing capabilities to the data storage industry, delivering over 350,000 test ports. Today at Flexstar we are developing a whole new “GREEN” product line that will be more energy efficient saving customers a great deal of money over the life of the products and will provide a new lower price per port.

Flexstar’s product line covers ambient, burn-in, environmental and altitude test equipment with advanced, but easy-to-use software. All industry standard interfaces and form factors are supported and modular design approach ensures products are field upgradeable providing flexibility and investment protection. All products are backed by a host of support offerings and Flexstar’s uncompromising commitment to customer service.

For more information, please visit www.flexstar.com or email sales@flexstar.com

Contacts

Flexstar: Timothy Beck, Vice President, Marketing and Major Account Sales.

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