- Cost-effective enterprise-grade MLC (eMLC) NAND technology
- MLC SATA drive with high read and write performance to fulfill client needs in the enterprise space
- High endurance
- Energy saving
- Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server
- Advanced Encrypting Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption
- Enterprise data path protection
- Static wear leveling evenly distributes data across the drive
- Bad block management replaces failed blocks with ones from the spare pool
- Performance throttling to ensure the lifetime expectation is met
- Power and 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 life time
The IBM SATA 2.5-inch MLC Enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) for IBM System x employ enterprise MLC NAND technology to bring an affordable, but performance-driven solution for applications requiring enterprise workloads with a mix of read-write operations. These industry standard 2.5-inch form factor SSD drives use a single-chip controller with a SATA interface on the system side and n-channels of NAND flash internally. They are targeted at databases and other enterprise workloads that require high I/O performance in random read and write operations including applications caching and tiering.