SimpleTech ZeusIOPS - Manual (Page 23)

Zeus IOPS 3.5-Inch Fibre Channel Solid State Drive Product Manual Rev. 1.0 23
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ESCRIPTION
G ENERAL D ESCRIPTION
The Zeus
IOPS
3.5-inch Fibre Channel Solid State Drive (SSD) incorporates advanced Single-Level
Cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology to deliver a state-of-the-art, non-volatile mass storage
device. The interface is fully SCSI compliant and conforms to the same mechanical and mounting
requirements as a standard rotating disk drive. The SSD is an easy-to-install, drop-in replacement for
standard SCSI-compliant hard disk drives (HDDs). No additional device drivers are required to fully
support the drive as a boot or data storage device.
F IBRE C HANNEL I NTERFACE
The SSD can be installed in any operating system environment that supports FCP-4 devices. The
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a method for transmitting SCSI commands and data over FC-FS-2
Exchanges and Information Units. It is a high-speed serial architecture that allows for connections
over optical or electrical cable. It also supports fabric-switched and arbitrated-loop network
topologies.
D RIVE C APACITIES
Zeus IOPS 3.5-inch SSDs are available with unformatted memory capacities of 18, 36, 73 and 146
gigabytes. The SSDs are ideal for applications that require high reliability and high tolerance to
shock, vibration, humidity, altitude and temperature. Since there are no moving parts, the SSDs are
completely maintenance-free.
P ERFORMANCE
The SSDs can operate at sustained data transfer rates of up to 200 megabytes per second. The
drives are capable of performing 50,000 random operations per second. Power consumption is kept
to a minimum; the SSDs can be powered from a single 12-volt source. The solid state design
eliminates electromechanical noise and delay inherent in traditional magnetic rotating media. The
wear-leveling and bad-block mapping algorithms ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of user
data. Superior data reliability is achieved through embedded Error Detection Code and Cyclic
Redundancy Checking (EDC/CRC).
D ATA S ECURITY
Zeus IOPS SSDs offer erase and data sanitization (purge) features. Erase times vary according to the
capacity of the drive. The drive can also be “sanitized”, thereby making data recovery impossible. See
Erase Times and Sanitize on page 10.