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IBM United States Hardware Announcement 114-135 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

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Standards

None

Operating environment

SSD

• Temperature: 0°C to 70°C (32°F to 158°F)

• Relative humidity: 8% to 85% (noncondensing)

• Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft)

Homologation

This product is not certified for direct connection by any means whatsoever to

interfaces of public telecommunications networks. Certification may be required by

law prior to making any such connection. Contact an IBM representative or reseller

for any questions.

Hardware requirements

These SDDs must be installed in selected System x or BladeCenter servers with

SATA capability based on selected drives.

Software requirements

The new IBM SATA SSDs work with most operating systems.

For further information, contact your IBM representative.

Compatibility

• Support for popular network operating systems

• ServerProven® testing for servers

• Supported on System x servers

For latest compatibility information, visit

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/

Note: Some configurations may not be compatible.

Limitations

Solid-state memory cells have an intrinsic, finite number of write cycles that each

cell can incur. As a result, each solid-state drive has a maximum amount of writes

to which it can be subjected, documented as Total Bytes Written (TBW) or Drive

Writes per Day (DWPD). IBM is not responsible for replacement of hardware that

has reached the maximum guaranteed number of write cycles. This limit may be

revealed as the SSD drive failing to respond to system- generated commands or

becoming incapable of being written to. In general, it is important to distinguish

the difference in endurance for Entry drives, Enterprise Value drives, and Enterprise

drives.

Enterprise drives have much higher write endurance and as a result can withstand

a greater number of writes over the lifetime of the device compared to Enterprise

Value or Entry drives. SSD write endurance is a important factor to consider because

unlike spinning disk media, NAND flash has a finite number of program/erase cycles

it will accept. SSD write endurance is typically measured by the number of program/

erase cycles, or P/E cycles, each cell incurs over its lifetime, and per drive is listed

as Total Bytes Written (TBW) in the drive specification. This statistic can be used to