14 DAY TRIAL // Until some months ago, solid state drives were still starting out and barely managed to reach capacities high enough to compete with HDDs, both on the enterprise market as well as the consumer segment. Now, however, the technology has been somewhat refined, which means that there is no longer a need for a compromise between capacity and speed, at least not to the same extent. To illustrate this advancement, Foremay has created a series of enterprise solutions known as the EC188 D-series.
The the EC188 D-series is composed of a number of storage units using either the 2.5-inch or the 3.5-inch form factors. They are meant to be used in professional applications, where a high density of fast-accessible data is required.
To this end, the SSDs have a maximum read speed of 250MB/s and a maximum write speed of 200MB/s. As for random IOPS, they reach 30,000 when reading and 25,000 when writing.
"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," Jason Hoover, Foremay’s VP marketing, said. "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 storage devices are capable of reaching these performance numbers because they are designed for the SAS (Serial attached SCSI) 6.0 Gbps interface. As such, they will perform best in enterprise servers and workstations, databases, data centers and real-time processing servers, such as stock exchange systems. They are already shipping in small quantities and should start being mass-produced in August. As for their actual storage capabilities, the drives come in multiple capacities, the largest of which being of 400GB.