Foremay Enterprise SSDs with SAS 6.0 Gbps
New SSDs geared for high-end gaming, medical imaging, and more.
Thursday Foremay revealed its EC188 D-series 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch solid state drive series designed for enterprise servers and workstations applications. The company is currently shipping the drives in small quantities for now, however Foremay indicated that volume production is scheduled to kick in sometime in August.
Boasting a SAS (serial Attached SCSI) 6.0 Gbps interface, the new EC188 D-series offers capacities of up to 400 GB. Foremay's SSDs also deliver high random read/write IOPs up to 30,000/25,000, read speeds of up to 250 MB/s, and write speeds of up to 200 MB/s. Foremay said that this new line is ideal for 3D modeling, medical imagine, high end gaming machines, and many other applications.
"Our SAS solid state drives are designed to meet the ever increasing demands for SSD applications for enterprise servers and other high end computing machines," said Jason Hoover, Foremay’s VP Marketing. "With high IOPS, high reliability and long endurance combined in the SAS SSD, system owners can now significantly reduce the system hardware TOC and maintenance cost, as well as annual electricity bills, especially in large scale enterprise server clusters and data centers."
The full press release can be accessed in PDF form here. Stay tuned for actual drive capacities, availability, and pricing.
Why not just say SAS2? Just about every SAS drive today has this interface, with SAS1 drives going end of life rapidly.
restatement, you aren't going to really see much gain off a SAS2 drive for gaming. Just about everything multiplayer has a timer at the start of matches to let the slow machines get loaded as to not give the SSD people an advantage. My Intel SSD does load levels quicker but I'm still sitting there twiddling my thumbs for 15 seconds.
I believe you meant to write "medical imaging", Kevin.
Very true, I never even thought about it until I spent the money later on in life to buy a high speed system. The hard drive transfer rates really kill an otherwise superior hardware machine. I finally took the steps to invest in a RAID0 system though. I got (3) 640GB WD Black drives for 1/3 the price total of one 256GB SSD. Read and Write speeds pushing nearly 300MB. I am extremely happy. Someday prices will come down and I can hopefully upgrade those three drives with 3 2TB SSD's without having to spend more then $500. Hopefully its this decade.
no hes been watching that GE commercial too much the one where they play "so happy together" in the background...
At this point, I think they're going to listed for $H
Where the H stands for Heart Attack
"Honestly"? As if you actually know the difference? If you did, you'd know there's some important differences between SAS and SATA. SAS uses the SCSI protocol, which means it inherited all the advantages of SCSI, including the RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) functionality which SATA mostly lacks. This is why you will always find SCSI-based devices (Fiber Channel uses SCSI as well) in use when people really value their data. SAS also gets the high-end features before SATA does. SAS was doing 6G, expanders, multi-lane, etc., long before SATA did. SAS drives typically also have dual ports for redundant controller configurations (there's that "RAS" thing again) which SATA will probably never have.
So you say your SSD loads level in multiplayer game in 0 seconds?
Hell yeah.
what for? you can't afford it
multi-lane, etc., long before SATA did. SAS drives typically also have dual ports for redundant controller configurations (there's that "RAS" thing again) which SATA will probably never have.
The article you will notice, says it is supposed to be desktop oriented...which makes little sense for a SAS drive as they are mission critical based. I'd use SATA for any applications like that.
From the article and the manufacturer:
Kevin Parrish said it was good for gaming, but he's just blowing smoke out his ass.
My mother has a ton of pictures & vids she puts on her laptop. That and a load of other pointless programs that I cant stand but she likes. Even with adequate ram, the system thrashes for what seems like ages on bootup and waits while tasks like indexing virus scanning and things of that nature complete. Added an SSD, poof, fast system that stays fast.
Rich or not, SSD does make life better on laptops. Even for the average user. System ever get slow over time for you? Ever want to shoot yourself after fixing mom's computer?
within 5 years, you will see more SSD than HDs in new laptops & systems b/c the advantages ARE THAT GREAT.
Just as SSDs improve your experience on the computer, I urge everyone to consider buying a quality chair and get out of that $60 office max you're probably sitting on. I know your back hurts, so why not invest money into that before you buy your SSD... Your body cant be upgraded later. hehe..