Solid State Drive Features

> Solid State Drive Features

> The SSD Guard Feature

> The controller firmware supports the use of SSDs as standard drives. The controller firmware also can support additional controller cache and Nytro Cache drive. The SSD drives are expected to behave like SATA or SAS HDDs except for the following features:

> | High random read speed (because there is no read-write head to move)

> | High performance-to-power ratio, because these drives have very low power consumption compared to HDDs

> | Low latency

> | High mechanical reliability

> | Lower weight and size

> NOTE Support for SATA SSD drives applies only to those drives that support ATA-8 ACS compliance.

> You can choose whether to permit a virtual drive to contain both Nytro Cache drive and HDDs. For a virtual drive that contains the Nytro Cache drive only, you can choose whether to permit the SAS and SATA Nytro Cache drive in that virtual drive. For virtual drives that have both Nytro Cache drive and HDDs, you can choose whether to mix SAS and SATA HDD drives with SAS and SATA Nytro Cache drive in various combinations.

> NOTE Support for SATA SSD drives applies only to those drives that support ATA-8 ACS compliance.

DB15-000988-08-December 2013
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