The Lightning Ultra 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 Ultra Gen. II SAS SSDs offer industry-leading predictable performance with high availability for the analysis of large data sets. Available in 19nm SLC capacities from 200GB Â- 800GB2 & with random read/write performance of up to 199K/115K IOPS & sequential read/write speed of up to 980/740 MB/s 1/. These SSDs are designed for write-intensive applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data Analytics, Data Warehousing, Database Logging, Media Editing, & Indexing, with a heavy workload comprised of a 50/50 read/write mix. This SSD offers 25 full drive writes per day (DWPD) with a limited 5 year warranty. Lightning Ultra 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 Ultra Gen. II SSDs provide high, predictable performance, industry-leading reliability, & maximum value.