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March 28, 2011

Foremay Intros OC177 DOC SSD Disk on Chip

With the advent of advanced computing, the size of peripherals and accessories related to all aspects of computing is diminishing at every passing moment. The phenomenon has especially been evident in memory devices, where the size of the drives has continuously been reducing. Hard drives are on their last leg before they bid us good bye, and Solid State Drives or ‘SSDs’ have been entering the market in every possible shape and manner. To move the battle forward, Foremay, Inc., a provider of solid state drives has launched its first disk-on-chip SSD, named the OC177 DOC.

The tiny sized drive can accommodate data capacities up to 32GB or 64GB compressed compactly within a small size less than the same of a U.S. quarter coin. Offering support to both standard IDE or SATA host interfaces, the OC177 NAND drive measures just 22mm x 22mm x 1.8mm, and is being sold with a trade name of DOC by Foremay. Initially, the drive is being offered in a capacity up to 32GB that will soon be increased to 64GB by the third quarter of the year. Featuring a read/write speed up to 70/40 MB per second, the OCC177 DOC is compliant with the ATA-7 specifications as well.

Within a number of computing environments, the users need very compact, low profile drives that can offer resistance to shocks and vibrations. The DOC chip disk by Foremay will be of considerable help in these conditions, enabling the users to carry out rugged embedded computing applications. Some of the industries and markets where the OC177 DOC will prove to be especially beneficial to the enterprises are, embedded computers and industrial PCs ; slim laptops and notebooks, video cameras, high end gaming stations, point of sale terminals at malls or shops and defense applications.

“Foremay’s DOC drive eliminates the need to have a “disk drive” attached to the computer motherboard,” commented Jack Winters, chief technical officer at Foremay Inc. “The DOC can be soldered directly onto the motherboard via its LGA or BGA pins, which also significantly enhances the anti-shock and anti-vibration performance from DOC equipped computers,” Winters added.

In August 2010, Wave Systems Corp. (News - Alert) announced plans to host panels addressing security and virtualization for Solid State Drives at the 5th Annual Flash Memory Summit, Aug. 17-19, 2010.




Arvind Arora is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arvind's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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