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Foremay

Foremay, Inc. was established in 2002 and is headquartered in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. Foremay's main business is to design and manufacture high reliability and high performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) for mission critical computing, industrial computing, enterprise computing and high end personal computing. Foremay's vision is to bring high ruggedness and high performance SSDs for high reliability systems with "Green Initiatives" in mind.

see also:- Foremay - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

Foremay's rankings in the Top 10 SSD OEMs - based on search volume (millions of SSD readers)
Q409 Q309 Q209 Q109 Q408 Q308 Q208 Q108 Q407 Q307 Q207
2 7 listed - but not in top 10 not listed or not visible in the SSD market
editor's comments:- - Foremay was the #2 ranked company in StorageSearch.com's Top 10 SSD Companies list in the 4th quarter of 2009.

Foremay's fast rise in this quarter was due to product announcements related to both of the most popular SSD form factors - 2.5" SSDs and PCIe SSDs.

To give you an idea of the excitement caused by this company - there were a few weeks when search volume for Foremay actually put it ahead of #1 ranked Fusion-io.


Here is a list of recent Foremay SSD news milestones from SSD Market History.

In June 2009 - Foremay announced one of the fastest 2.5" SLC flash SSDs in the market. The SATA compatible SC199 Cheetah V-Series has sustained R/W speeds of 260MB/s and /250MB/s respectively and 42,000 random IOPS. Capacity options range from 32GB to 256GB.

That makes the 3rd Cheetah in my Animal Brands in the Storage Market Directory. Click on the link to see the full storage zoo.

In July 2009 - Foremay announced a new 1.8" SLC flash SSD. The SATA compatible SC 199 Cheetah has sustained R/W speeds of 250MB/s and 220MB/s respectively. R/W IOPS are 6,000 and 5,200 respectively. Capacity options range from 16GB to 64GB. Endurance for the 16GB device is rated at 87 years assuming 50GB sequential writes per day.

In September 2009 - Foremay announced the SC199 Hi-Rel Series SLC flash SSDs in 1.8", 2.5" and 3.5" form factors which meet military standards MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-833G. Operational temperature options include -40°C to approx 100°C.

In October 2009 - Foremay launched its EC188 Jaguar Series flash SSDs optimized for the Mac market. Form factors include 1.8", 2.5" and 3.5", interface types include SATA, micro SATA, SATA LIF, IDE and IDE ZIF/LIF. Capacties range from 64GB to 1TB and R/W speeds are upto 260/230MB/s.

Also in October 2009 - Foremay entered the PCIe SSD market with its EC188 Dragon series - which is now sampling.

Supporting both x8 and x16 slots - R/W performance is upto 1.5 GB/s and 1.3 GB/s respectively. Both MLC and SLC models are available. Capacities range from 128GB to 4TB. Sequential R/W IOPS is up to 90,000/80,000. Random R/W IOPS is up to 27,000/12,000.

Features include power outage protection, dual PCIe configuration through a built-in PCIe RAID controller, and active garbage collection. OS support includes Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, and UNIX.

In November 2009 - Foremay announced it is shipping the world's fastest 2.5" SATA flash SSDs. The SC199 Cheetah Y-Series has R/W speeds up to 290/280 MB/s in 2.5" and 3.5" SATA form factors - which approaches the theoretical speed limit of the SATA-II protocol. It also delivers impressive R/W IOPS of up to 50,000/45,000 respectively.

Also in November 2009 - Foremay announced that secure erase and fast purge options are now available for most models in its SC199 SSD product family.

In February 2010 Foremay started sampling its EC188 D-series 2nd generation fast PCIe SSDs with capacity upto 4TB (MLC) and 1TB (SLC). The new SSDs deliver sequential speeds up to 1.6 GB/s for reading and 1.5 GB/s for writing, and R/W IOPS up to 200K/180K.

Foremay's new PCIe SSDs aim at the same kind of customers who currently buy from Fusion-io and Texas Memory Systems both of whom have been shipping this type of product for over a year already. Customer qualification by OS and application type is a prerequisite to sales in this part of the market. Foremay will have to be aggressive on price to get volume customers interested enough to test its products.
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