DS8000: Introducing Solid State Drives
Revised: June 4, 2009
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are
high-IOPS class enterprise storage devices targeted at business
critical production applications that can benefit from high levels of
fast-access storage.
In addition to better IOPS performance, SSDs
offer a number of potential benefits over electromechanical Hard Disk
Drives (HDDs), including better reliability, lower power consumption,
less heat generation, and lower acoustical noise.
This paper explores the characteristics of SSDs, available for all DS8000 models as an optional, RPQ based feature.
More details are available at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/abstracts/redp4522.html?Open
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4522.pdf
