Marketing description

HPE Enterprise Mainstream SAS and SATA SSDs are best suited for high I/O applications with workloads balanced between reads and writes. The SAS and SATA SSDs provide the workload-optimized performance required for demanding I/O-intensive applications. When paired with HPE ProLiant servers, these SSDs help you meet the challenges of Big Data. They achieve twice the performance and endurance of previous HPE SAS and SATA SSDs. The SATA SSDs come with a six gigabit per second (Gb/s) SATA hot-plug interface.

Product features

• Higher performance and better latency
  HPE SSDs enable rapid reads and writes of transactional data. On an HDD, random reads require constant repositioning of the read/write head to seek the exact location of data on the platter before the data transfer can begin. However, SSDs have no moving parts or rotating platters that can cause latency problems, and that results in faster access to data. Therefore, with faster seek times, the drives achieve high IOPS, producing quicker data access and better latency. The drives also pack the operating performance of several rotating HDDs into the same space as a single HDD, so you can get more performance out of your existing data center.
• Lower power consumption
  Steadily increasing storage requirements pose power and performance challenges to data centers. Solid state devices have a significantly better performance-to-power rating than traditional rotating HDDs. The lack of a motor greatly reduces an SSD's power consumption, so the drives draw less energy - less than two watts idle and less than nine watts maximum - for SSDs.
• Environmental ruggedness
  The inherent environmental ruggedness of SSDs makes them well suited for extreme environments where traditional drives cannot operate. The drives can tolerate significantly higher operating shock and vibration levels compared to traditional rotating HDDs. In fact, they virtually eliminate rotational vibration problems.
• High reliability
  Reliability is important for any storage medium, and it is essential when considering a storage device that can be used in servers. HPE Enterprise SSDs pass a rigorous HPE ProLiant qualification of 2.4 million test hours.
• Investment protection
  HPE Enterprise SSDs are a drop-in replacement for existing HDDs. They fit into existing HDD hot-plug bays and require no modification to operating system or infrastructure tools. The drives are recognized as standard SAS or SATA devices with no special changes in firmware or hardware. Although you cannot mix SSDs and HDDs in the same logical array, you can mix them within the system to provide a more effective use of both technologies.