Historically, storage systems have favored the 3.5-inch drive form factor for superior capacity (GB/drive) and therefore lower cost/GB. The Lightning LS is based on an advanced controller design and software architecture that delivers dramatic I/O performance and reliability improvements over existing SSD technology, and higher performance and lower energy consumption than multiple traditional high performance HDDs.
The Lightning LS Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), a new class of solid state storage devices, is available in a 3.5-inch industry standard drive form factor with capacities from 150GB to 300GB and all with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Lightning LS fits into existing infrastructures without requiring changes to current storage management systems.
| Product Specifications | |
| Interface, Capacity, and Memory Technology | |
| Host Interface | SAS |
| Interface Ports | 2 (full duplex) |
| User Capacities | 300GB (LS 300S) 150GB (LS 150S) |
| Sector Sizes Supported | 512, 520, or 528 bytes per sector |
| Flash Memory Technology | SLC NAND |
| Performance (Typical) | |
| Data Throughput (Read / Write) | Read > 525 MB/sec Write > 340 MB/sec |
| Total IOPS | >160,000 IOPS |
| Physical Dimensions | |
| Height (max) | 26.1 mm |
| Width (max) | 101.6 mm |
| Length (max) | 147.0 mm |
| Weight | 0.6 Kg |
| Power Consuption | |
| Idle | 3.9 watts |
| Typical | 7.9 watts |
| Reliability | |
| No Write Cache | No risk of data loss |
| Read Endurance | Unlimited |
| Write Endurance | Unlimited |
| Unrecovered Error Rate | <1 sector in 1 E10-17 bits read |
| End-to-End Data Protection | Yes, including T10 DIF (SCSI PI) support |
| Patrol Read (automatic) | No performance impact |
| Power-on Hours | 8760 hours per year |
| MTBF | 2 million hours |
| Environment | |
| Operating Temperature (ambient) | 0 to 60° C |
| Non-operating Temperature | -40 to 85° C |
| Start-up time (Power On to Ready) | <30 seconds |
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