- Industry standard 2.5-inch form factors
- Cost-effective Intel 20 nm MLC NAND flash memory
- SATA MLC solid-state drive with high read performance and consistently low latencies to fulfill client needs in the enterprise space
- High reliability and enhanced ruggedness
- Energy saving, with as little as 5 W power consumption per drive
- Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Advanced Encrypting Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption
- Full end-to-end data path protection
- Thermal throttling to extend the life of the drive
- Enhanced power loss data protection
The S3500 SATA 2.5-inch MLC Enterprise Value solid-state drives (SSD) for IBM System x employ MLC NAND flash memory and a 6 Gbps SATA interface to provide an affordable solution with industry leading performance. It is targeted at workloads that require high I/O performance in random read operations, including content delivery, streaming video and big data analytics.