00AJ050 — Technical Data Sheet

The S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value solid-state drives (SSDs) for 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.<br><br><b>Did you know</b><br><br>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.<br><br>S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value SSDs provide outstanding IOPS/watt and cost/IOPS