The Lightning Ascend Gen. II 12 Gb/s SAS SSD doubles interface speed, providing the highest performance for mission-critical hyperscale, cloud & virtualized data center application workloads. This next generation Lightning SSD offers a feature-rich robust design, combined with San DiskÂ’s innovative parallel processing architecture to deliver full data path protection (T10-DIF support), temperature based power control, SED instant secure erase, an MTBF of 2.5 million hours & power fail protection. This SSD is backward-compatible with 6 Gb/s SAS & offers a single firmware binary platform for seamless integration & reduced qualification times. Lightning Ascend Gen. II SAS SSDs offer superior reliability with high speed data transfer rates where quick access to data is essential. Available in 19nm e MLC capacities from 200GB Â- 1.6TB2 & with random read/write performance of up to 195K/100K IOPS & sequential read/write speed of up to 980/600 MB/s 1. These SSDs are designed for mixed-use applications such as On-line Transaction Processing (OLTP) Databases, Email/ Messaging, E-Commerce, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, & Collaboration with a typical workload comprised of a 70/30 read/write mix. This SSD offers 10 full drive writes per day (DWPD) with a limited 5 year warranty. Lightning Ascend Gen. II SAS SSDs are a product of San DiskÂ’s vertical integration
- spanning from the fabrication of the NAND technology & wafer to the manufacturing of the finished SSD. This vertical integration results in a customized solution that takes full advantage of each component to deliver maximum performance & quality assurance. Lightning Ascend Gen. II SSDs provide high, predictable-performance, industry-leading reliability & maximum value.