PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The ZeusIOPS 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Solid State Drive (SSD) incorporates advanced Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology to deliver a state-of-the-art, non-volatile mass storage device. The interface is fully SCSI compliant and conforms to the same mechanical and mounting requirements as a standard rotating disk drive. The SSD is an easy-to-install, drop-in replacement for standard SCSI-compliant hard disk drives (HDDs). No additional device drivers are required to fully support the drive as a boot or data storage device.
FIBRE CHANNEL INTERFACE
The SSD can be installed in any operating system environment that supports FCP-4 devices. The Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a method for transmitting SCSI commands and data over FC-FS-2 Exchanges and Information Units. It is a high-speed serial architecture that allows for connections over optical or electrical cable. It also supports fabric-switched and arbitrated-loop network topologies.
DRIVE CAPACITIES
ZeusIOPS 3.5-inch SSDs are available with unformatted memory capacities of 18, 36, 73 and 146 gigabytes. The SSDs are ideal for applications that require high reliability and high tolerance to shock, vibration, humidity, altitude and temperature. Since there are no moving parts, the SSDs are completely maintenance-free.
PERFORMANCE
The SSDs can operate at sustained data transfer rates of up to 200 megabytes per second. The drives are capable of performing 50,000 random operations per second. Power consumption is kept to a minimum; the SSDs can be powered from a single 12-volt source. The solid state design eliminates electromechanical noise and delay inherent in traditional magnetic rotating media. The wear-leveling and bad-block mapping algorithms ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of user data. Superior data reliability is achieved through embedded Error Detection Code and Cyclic Redundancy Checking (EDC/CRC).
DATA SECURITY
ZeusIOPS SSDs offer erase and data sanitization (purge) features. Erase times vary according to the capacity of the drive. The drive can also be “sanitized”, thereby making data recovery impossible. See Erase Times and Sanitize on page 10.
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