Up to 2.4TB of PCIe SSD by IBM

The 1.28 TB MLC Mono and 2.4 TB MLC Duo High IOPS Adapters from IBM Corp. for System x and BladeCenter come with many of the benefits of standard storage in addition to enterprise-class high performance of up to 100,000 sustained IOPS.

These adapters are designed primarily for performance-hungry servers and computing appliances while providing the benefits of lower power and cooling costs, low management overhead, and smaller storage footprints.

Based on PCIe architecture coupled with silicon-based NAND clustering storage technology, the adapters are optimized for System x racks and can be deployed in blades using the PCIe expansion units. These scalable designs come in MLC technologies in PCIe form factors.

These 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 wear-leveling, ECC, and N+1 chip-level redundancy providing reliability and efficiency.

These adapters are compatible with a variety of System x servers.

Features and functions:

1.2 TB High IOPS MLC Mono Adapter (90Y4377)

1.2 MLC Mono – Half length, Low Profile
PCIe x4

2.4 TB High IOPS MLC Duo Adapter (90Y4397)

2.4 MLC Duo – Half length, Full Height
Eight lanes with PCI-Express
Four lanes with PCI-e gen 2
High capacity design with MLC NAND technology

Warranty
One year, limited warranty or system.

Key prerequisites
These SSD PCIe Adapters can be used on supported System x and BladeCenter servers. In order to be used with BladeCenter servers the IBM BladeCenter PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade II is required.

Planned availability date

July 31, 2012:

1.2 TB Adapter (90Y4377):