Description
Endurance Management and Extended Life
The HPE 480GB SATA 2.5inch Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) with the P40545-K21 model number is designed for use in enterprise environments, where high-performance and reliability are critical. This SSD is equipped with advanced features that help manage the drive’s endurance and extend its lifespan, ensuring that it can meet the demands of mission-critical applications and workloads.
Endurance management is a key aspect of SSD technology, as it refers to the ability of the drive to withstand constant use and maintain its performance over time. SSDs use NAND flash memory, which has a limited lifespan compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). The more data that is written to the drive, the more wear and tear it experiences, which can eventually lead to data corruption or failure.
To combat this issue, the HPE 480GB SATA SSD uses advanced endurance management techniques, such as wear leveling and overprovisioning. Wear leveling spreads out the write operations across the entire drive, preventing any one area from being worn out too quickly. Overprovisioning sets aside a portion of the drive’s capacity for use as spare blocks, which can be used to replace any blocks that fail or become unusable over time.
In addition to endurance management, the HPE 480GB SATA SSD also features extended life technology, which further enhances the drive’s lifespan. This technology includes power loss protection, which ensures that any data being written to the drive is not lost in the event of a sudden power outage. The drive also features advanced error correction capabilities, which help to detect and correct any data errors that may occur.
Operating System and Driver Support
The HPE 480GB SATA 2.5inch Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) supports various operating systems and drivers, including:
- Operating System Support:
The HPE SSD supports several operating systems, including Windows, Linux, VMware, and UNIX. It is compatible with various versions of these operating systems, such as Windows Server 2016, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, and VMware ESXi 6.5. These operating systems provide the necessary platform for the SSD to operate and deliver optimum performance.
- Driver Support:
The HPE SSD requires specific drivers for optimal performance. The drivers provide the necessary communication between the operating system and the SSD. The driver support for the HPE SSD is available for various operating systems and is constantly updated to ensure maximum compatibility.
The HPE SSD supports native drivers for Windows and Linux operating systems, and there are additional drivers available for other operating systems, including VMware and UNIX. These drivers are available on the HPE website and can be downloaded and installed easily.
Enterprise Drive Guidelines
Enterprise drive guidelines are a set of standards and recommendations for the use and deployment of storage devices in enterprise-level environments. These guidelines are designed to ensure that enterprise storage solutions are reliable, secure, and provide high performance and scalability.
Some of the key guidelines for enterprise drives include:
- High capacity and performance: Enterprise drives should be designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast read/write speeds to support demanding workloads.
- Data protection: Enterprise drives should have built-in features for data protection, such as RAID, encryption, and error correction.
- Reliability: Enterprise drives should be designed to operate continuously for long periods without failure, with low failure rates and quick recovery times in the event of a failure.
- Scalability: Enterprise drives should be able to scale up as data storage needs increase, without sacrificing performance or reliability.
- Compatibility: Enterprise drives should be compatible with the systems and software used in enterprise-level environments, and should be easy to integrate with existing infrastructure.
The HPE 480GB SATA 2.5inch Enterprise Solid State Drive (P40545-K21) meets these guidelines by offering high capacity and performance, built-in data protection, and reliability, making it suitable for use in demanding enterprise-level environments.
Main Information about this HPE P40545-K21 Solid State Drive
- Brand : HPE
- Part Number or SKU# P40545-K21
- Device Type: Solid State Drive – Hot-Swap
- Capacity: 480 GB
- Form Factor: 2.5 inch SFF
- Interface: SATA 6GBPS
- NAND Flash Memory Type: Triple-level cell (TLC)
- Plug Type: Hot Pluggable
- Connectivity Type: Single
- Carrier Type: Basic Carrier (BC)
- Workload Type: Mixed Use
- Bundled with: HPE Basic Carrier (BC)
- Features: Digitally Signed Firmware (DS)
- Platform Supported: HPE ProLiant Rack
- Height: 15.00 mm
Performance of HPE 480GB SSD
- Lifetime Writes (TB): 3000
- Endurance DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day): 3.50
- Drive Transfer Rate: 6 GBPS (external)
- MAX Seq. Reads Throughput (MiB/s): 530
- MAX Seq. Writes Throughput (MiB/s): 480
- Random Read Average Latency uSec (4KiB,Q1): 110
- Random Write Average Latency uSec (4KiB,Q1): 52
- Random Read IOPS (4KiB, Q=16): 68000
- Random Write IOPS (4KiB, Q=16): 40000
Expansion And Connectivity for this HPE SATA 6GBPS Solid State Drive
- Interfaces: 1 x SATA 6 Gb/s
- Compatible Bay: 2.5″ SFF
Product Dimensions & Weight of HPE 2.5 inch SFF SSD
- Height: 5.75 inch
- Width: 8.63 inch
- Depth: 9.00 inch
- Weight: 1.10 lbs
Compatibility
- HPE ProLiant DL Series: DL20 Gen10 Plus DL20 Gen10 Plus Base DL20 Gen10 Plus Entry DL20 Gen10 Plus High Performance DL20 Gen10 Plus Performance DL325 Gen10 Plus V2 DL325 Gen10 Plus V2 Base DL325 Gen10 Plus V2 for Weka Base Tracking DL325 Gen10 Plus V2 Performance DL345 Gen10 Plus DL345 Gen10 Plus Base DL345 Gen10 Plus Entry DL360 Gen10 Plus DL360 Gen10 Plus All-NVMe Server for Software Defined Storage DL360 Gen10 Plus for Weka Base Tracking DL360 Gen10 Plus Network Choice DL365 Gen10 Plus DL380 Gen10 Plus DL380 Gen10 Plus Network Choice
- HPE ProLiant ML Series: ML30 Gen10 Plus ML30 Gen10 Plus Entry ML30 Gen10 Plus Performance
- HPE SimpliVity 325 Gen10 Plus V2 Node
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