HP Solid State Drives

Solid state drives remove latency found in traditional hard drives by eliminating seek. They provide high performance data access and low power.		Product information » Overview & Features » Key benefits » Questions & Answers

	Environmentally rugged

• Can operate in environments up tp 55 degrees celsius
• Can tolerate significantly higher operating shock and vibration levels (almost a non issue)
• No acoustic noise

	Replacement for SFF and LFF SATA hot plug hard drives

• The system OS's interprets SSD's as a standard SATA hard drive with no special changes needed in FW or hardware
• Fit into existing drive slots on qualified servers
• Qualified with G5 and G6 internal attached smart arrays
• External storage box support will launch later
• Industry standard SFF and LFF drives using the HP universal drive hot plug carrier

	Maximizes random read I/O performance with improved write performance from prior products

	Fully tested and qualified through HP Quaified options process

• No spinning media

	Higher reliability

• Higher MTBF
• Less susceptible to operational and non-operational shock
• less susceptible to effects of vibration
• based on SLC NAND flash technology which is designed for the enterprise environment