Solid State Drives (SSDs) are high-IOPS class enterprise storage devices targeted at business critical production applications that can benefit from high level of fast-access storage.
In addition to better IOPS performance, Solid State Drives offer a number of potential benefits over electromechanical Hard Disk Drives, including better reliability, lower power consumption, less heat generation, and lower acoustical noise.
This paper explores the characteristics of Solid State Drives, available for the DS8000 Storage Systems. This paper was written for the DS8100 and DS8300 systems with microcode release 4.2.