- Industry standard 3.5-inch form factors supports 3.5-inch drive bays on selected System x, IBM iDataPlex, IBM BladeCenter and IBM Flex System servers
- Utilizes industry leading 24 nm MLC NAND technology
- Cost-effective MLC SAS drive with high read and write performance to fulfill client needs in the enterprise space
- High endurance, with up to 29.2 PB of total bytes written (TBW) to withstand applications with intensive read/write workloads
- Energy saving, with as little as 7 watt power consumption per drive
- Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Advanced Encrypting Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption
- FlashGuard technology extends the native endurance of commercial-grade MLC flash
- Aggregated Flash Management
- Advanced Signal Processing
- Enhanced Error Correction
- DataGuard technology protects against data corruption and loss
- Full data path protection
- Flexible Redundant Array of Memory Elements (F.R.A.M.E.) data recovery algorithm
- EverGuard technology protects data in the event of unplanned power outages
- Static wear leveling evenly distributes data across the drive
- Bad block management replaces failed blocks with new ones from the spare pool
- Thermal throttling to extend the life of the drive
- Data retention management to ensure availability and integrity of stored data
- Minimal write amplification for efficient flash utilization and extended lifetime
The IBM SAS MLC Enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) for IBM System x employ MLC NAND technology to provide an affordable, but performance-driven solution for applications requiring enterprise workloads with a mix of read/write operations. These industry standard 3.5-inch form factor SSDs use a single-chip controller with a SAS interface on the system side and 16 channels of NAND flash internally. They provide outstanding performance, endurance, reliability, and energy efficiency for random read- and write-intensive enterprise workloads such as databases, data warehouses, corporate email and collaboration, actively connected users, caching and tiering applications, and others.