Introduction

The S3500 SATA 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch MLC Enterprise Value solid-state drives (SSDs) for IBM® System x® employ MLC NAND flash memory and a 6 Gbps SATA interface to provide an affordable solution with industry leading performance. They are targeted at workloads that require high I/O performance in random read operations, including content delivery, streaming video, and big data analytics. The 1.8-inch SSDs can also be used in the IBM eXFlash solution for maximum capacity and performance.

Unlike client solid-state drives, S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value SSDs are designed to operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week (24x7), and they are equipped with a robust suite of enterprise features, including SMART attributes, hot-plug support, high reliability, enhanced ruggedness, thermal throttling, and enhanced power loss protection. They also leverage full end-to-end data path protection to protect the integrity of the data that is transferred to and from the NAND flash memory or stored in the memory.

S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value SSDs provide outstanding IOPS/watt and cost/IOPS for for read-intensive enterprise applications like web serving, content delivery, streaming video, and big data.

Rigorous testing of S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value SSDs by IBM through the IBM ServerProven® program assures a high degree of confidence in storage subsystem compatibility and reliability. Providing an additional peace of mind, these drives are covered under IBM warranty.

Features

Security algorithms

256-bit AES

SSD form factor

2.5"

SSD capacity

240 GB

Interface

Serial ATA III

Memory type

MLC

Data transfer rate

6 Gbit/s

Read speed

500 MB/s

Write speed

260 MB/s

Random read (4KB)

75000 IOPS

Random write (4KB)

7500 IOPS

Read latency

50 µs

Write latency

65 µs

Lithography

20 nm

S.M.A.R.T. support

Y

Hot-swap

N

Mean time between failures (MTBF)

2000000 h

Windows operating systems supported

Y

Linux operating systems supported

Y

Certification

UL CB CE C-Tick Taiwan (BSMIn) KCC VCCI

Power

Power consumption (read)

5 W

Power consumption (write)

5 W

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 70 °C

Operating relative humidity (H-H)

8 - 85%

Operating vibration

2.17 G

Non-operating vibration

3.13 G

Operating shock

1000 G

Maximum operating altitude

3050 m

Weight & dimensions

Width

70 mm

Depth

100 mm

Height

7 mm

Weight

70 g

Packaging data

Package width

174 mm

Package depth

133 mm

Package height

63 mm

Package weight

434 g

Other features

Internal

Y