Datasheet

Solid State Drives for IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 6
For uncorrectable errors, the drives use the Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements
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(RAISE) scheme, which allows the controller to rebuild data that was located on a failed flash page or
block somewhere else on the drive.
For undetectable errors, there is data path protection (CRC-32 bit).
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SATA
Migrating your enterprise storage to SSD is relatively painless because solid state drives support the
SATA protocol used by HDDs. Coexistence is also possible because of this. Figure 2 shows the x3690 X5
with 1.8-inch SSDs and 2.5-inch SAS drive bays.
Figure 2. Eight solid state drives installed in an x3690 X5 server (up to 24 supported)