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12Gb/s SAS Enterprise 2.5” SSDs
Lightning Ascend
™
Gen. II SAS SSDs
Features
• Full data path protection, end-to-end
T10-DIF support
• Temperature-based performance control
• MTBF - 2.5 Million Hours
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• 5 Year Warranty
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Benefits
• High, Predictable Performance
• Industry-leading Reliability
• Highest cost-to-performance value
• Maximum bandwidth for high speed
data transfer rates
• Complete vertical integration
Mixed-Use
Application Workloads
• On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Databases
• Financial Transactions
• E-Commerce
• Email/Messaging
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Collaboration
The Lightning Ascend™ Gen. II 12Gb/s SAS SSD doubles interface speed, providing the
highest performance for mission-critical hyperscale, cloud and virtualized data center
application workloads.This next generation Lightning® SSD offers a feature-rich robust
design, combined with SanDisk’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 and power fail protection. This SSD is
backward-compatible with 6Gb/s SAS and offers a single firmware binary platform for
seamless integration and 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 eMLC
capacities from 200GB – 1.6TB
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and with random read/write performance of up
to 195K/100K IOPS* and sequential read/write speed of up to 980/600 MB/s
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These SSDs are designed for mixed-use applications such as On-line Transaction
Processing (OLTP) Databases, Email/Messaging, E-Commerce, Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure, and 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
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Lightning Ascend Gen. II SAS SSDs are a product of SanDisk’s vertical integration
- spanning from the fabrication of the NAND technology and 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 and quality assurance. Lightning Ascend Gen. II SSDs provide high,
predictable-performance, industry-leading reliability and maximum value.
Maximum bandwidth with high speed data transfer rates where quick access to data is essential