High Speed PCIe SSD Launched by Foremay®

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EC188 Dragon™ series solid state drive ( SSD ) has a standard PCI Express interface that boosts read/write speed up to 1,500/1,300 MB/s with massive capacity up to 4 TB

FREMONT, California – October 26, 2009 – Foremay, Inc., a leader of technology innovation in solid state drives and one of the World Top 10 SSD OEMs, today announced the EC188 Dragon series solid state hard drive that has a standard second generation high speed PCIe host interface. The EC188 Dragon is designed for desktops, workstations and servers with x8 and x16 PCIe slots, with speeds up to 1.5 GB/s for reading and 1.3 GB/s for writing. The jumbo capacity of EC188 Dragon PCIe SSD
card is up to 4,096 GB or 4 TB. It helps solve the storage bottleneck problem in dense I/O, heavy traffic load and high speed computing applications such as full HD video and HDTV recording /editing / transmitting, and in high end gaming machines, enterprise servers / workstations, and EAD / IC Design simulations and verifications.

"Only a few OEMs supply PCIe SSDs in today’s market," said Jason Hoover, Foremay’s vice president of marketing. "We are excited to launch our EC188 Dragon PCIe card solid state drive which provides more choices for the SSD market. In addition to enterprise class performance, our EC188 Dragon also provides greater value to our customers with our continuous cost reduction efforts."

The EC188 Dragon PCIe SSD card supports various operating systems including Window 7 /Vista/XP/2000/Server, Mac OS X 10.4/5/6, Solaris, Linux, UNIX and more. Other features available with the EC188 Dragon PCIe SSD include power outage protection, dual PCIe configuration through a built-in PCIe RAID controller, and active garbage collection.

EC188 Dragon PCIe SSD Availability

The EC188 Dragon PCIe SSD cards are now shipping in small quantities. Volume production is expected starting in Q1’2010. For more information about specifications and pricing of EC188 Dragon, please contact sales@foremay.net

About Foremay

Founded in the Silicon Valley in 2002, Foremay, Inc. is a leading company dedicated to technology innovation in Solid State Drive ( SSD ) for high reliability mission critical computing, industrial computing, enterprise computing, and high end personal computing. Foremay's vision is to bring high reliability, high ruggedness and high performance solid state drives with "Green Initiatives" in mind. Foremay is headquartered in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. For more information and product details please visit www.foremay.net

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