HP is introducing the first in a series of solid state drive products. This device, targeted at extreme operation environments or local boot, brings the reliability of solid state technology, lower power and faster reads than traditional rotating drives. The SFF product, based on NAND Single Level Cell flash technology is available on a limited selection of ProLiant server blades.
What's new
Introducing SFF solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB for enterprise ,offering single level cell (SLC) NAND flash devices as a substitute for traditional rotating drives in a boot environment or extreme operating environment
Solid State drives have no rotating media and therfore no seek times enabling higher read IOPS. Performance is up to 50x SATA and 15x SAS for random reads
Solid State drives are low power (sub 2W) compared to 9W for a 15K SFF SAS generating less heat with no noise
Solid State drives can operate in extreme environments of up to 70 degrees C
Ideal environment
Ideal for...
Solid state drives are ideal for use in extreme operating environments
Can withstand high temperatures of up to 70 degrees C
Shock and vibration tolerant
No moving parts means no noise
Solid state drives are ideal as high performance boot drives
No seek times
Random reads of up to 50X greater than SATA and 15X greater than SAS drives
Fast power-on to ready time
Solid State drives are ideal for high random read environments such as web service providers
Random reads up to 15x that of SAS hard drives and 50X that of SATA hard drives
Lower latency due to no seek times or drive spin up
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