IBM 90Y4365 Internal Solid State Drive Data Storage

The new family of IBM® High IOPS Modular Adapters is the ultimate performance solution for embedded direct-attached storage for IBM System x®, IBM BladeCenter®, and IBM Flex System™. The offerings include 300 GB, 600 GB, and 800 GB Multi Level Cell (MLC) adapters and a 300 GB Single Level Cell (SLC) adapter. Designed to offer high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden, these adapters can improve the performance of applications regardless of the mix of reads and writes.

The IBM High IOPS Modular Adapters are built on the latest enterprise-level solid-state technologies and include sophisticated advanced features to help deliver consistently high levels of performance, endurance, and reliability under some of the most demanding conditions. The robust technology in these adapters helps optimize the number of program cycles to the flash storage, efficiently extending the rated endurance of flash storage.

Features

The IBM High IOPS Modular Adapters use NAND flash memory as the basic building block of solid-state storage and contain no moving parts, thus are less sensitive to issues associated with vibration, noise, and mechanical failure. These adapters are built as block devices on a PCIe bus with advanced wear-leveling, ECC, and chip-level redundancy providing unparalleled reliability and efficiency.

Based on the standard PCIe architecture coupled with the modular NAND SLC and eMLC storage technologies, the High IOPS Modular Adapters are optimized for System x rack servers and can be deployed in blades through the PCIe expansion units.

The IBM High IOPS Modular Adapters have the following features:

- Industry-standard PCIe form factor.
- Enterprise-grade NAND SLC and eMLC technology.
- Modular NAND flash architecture.
- Function as a PCIe storage and controller device. The operating system sees a block device.