SAS (SCSI) based enterprise SSDs?

[alamone]

So, while there's been a lot of development recently for SSDs, they've all primarily used the consumer-targeted SATA interface, while neglecting the enterprise targeted SAS or SCSI interface. Do any manufacturers have plans for SAS or SAS2 interface SSDs?

I saw that Toshiba has a press release about 50/100GB SAS SSDs:
http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2009/memy_09_552.jsp
No pricing of course, but scheduled for 2009 2Q mass production.

But other than that, it seems like slim pickings.
It seems to me that if you were able to get a SAS SSD and
use dual porting for increased performance, you might get even
more IOPs than current SATA based SSDs, and take advantage
of the native SAS interfaces of higher end RAID cards, rather than
using SATA HBAs or SATA to SCSI wrapper emulation for SAS.

 

[Razlak]

The only ones I know of off hand are the STEC ZeusIOPS drives, which are mega-$$$ since they're meant to replace dozens of 15krpm drives each(IOP wise), so they price accordingly. I imagine as the SSDs trickle down (or up) to the mid tier servers they will start putting SAS interfaces on them. I seem to remember a rumor that Intel is planning SAS versions of their -E SLC models soon.

The market for these does seem a little weird, normally things either come from the low end and go up or high end and come down. SSD's seem to be doing both at the same time.