WD 0T00812 Product Data Sheet

Data Sheet

FlashMAX® II PCIe

Enterprise Solid-State Drives

Highlights

• Uncompromised, consistent performance across

a wide variety of workloads

• Sustained, predictable performance over the

lifetime of the product

• Highest capacity in the industry for a PCIe

flash storage product – up to 4.8TB in a
HH-HL form factor

• UEFI boot, available with Standard models

• Dynamic, global wear-leveling

• Enterprise-grade reliability: Flash-aware RAID,

End-to-End data-path protection, advanced
ECC, secure erase, power fail protection

Applications/Environments

• Enterprise-class servers and high

performance computing

• Suitable for the most demanding scale-out

database workloads

• Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)

• High Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Virtual Computing

• Space and/or power constrained

environments

HGST Storage Class Memory

HGST incorporates specialized software and hardware that combine to implement Storage Class
Memory (SCM) within the server. The HGST architecture has been designed to tightly integrate
dierent kinds of flash media, hardware and software to deliver memory-class performance
with storage-class capacity and persistence. HGST’s FlashMAX® II SCM devices and associated
software deliver performance without compromise, along with HDD-like capacity in a very
compact, universal form factor.

vFAS™

vFAS is an Adaptive Scheduling algorithm, which delivers the most ecient access to flash
media for applications. In addition to providing optimized access for peak performance,
vFAS also includes sophisticated techniques to ensure applications get steady sustained
performance at all times. vFAS virtualizes the underlying flash media to present a standard
block device interface to applications, without inecient storage protocols or interconnects,
resulting in significant gains in application performance.

FlashMAX II presents a traditional block storage volume to the host so that applications
can easily access it without modification. vFAS has been designed to treat flash media
more like an extension of memory, while maintaining a traditional block storage interface
for applications. All of this is done without the use of storage protocols, storage controllers
or storage interconnects. The result is latencies under 21 μs, which is closer to DRAM
performance.

Unconditional Performance

FlashMAX II with vFAS delivers consistent performance across all application workloads,
even when the device is fully utilized. FlashMAX II with vFAS delivers application
performance whether it is peak small block read performance, where a single low profile
card can deliver over 1.1 million IOPS, or sustained mixed read/write performance when the

drive is full.

Simplified Management

Unlike many competing solutions, 100% of the capacity available on a FlashMAX II card
is available as a single host volume on the server without having to leverage 3rd party
software RAID products to stripe across multiple drives. With FlashMAX II you can have a
single volume presented to the operating system up to the advertised formatted capacity,

4800GB, 2200GB, 1100GB and 550GB

MLC | HH-HL SFF | PCIe 2.0

which can be as large as 4.8TB when using the FlashMAX II Capacity model.

Features and Benefits

Feature / Function Benefits

Performance 2700MB/s / 1000MB/s sequential R/W Maximum performance density in a HH-HL PCIe SSD drives maximum consolidation and savings

343K / 243K IOPS random R/W

314K IOPS on 70/30 mix R/W

Low Latency < 21 μs write latencies DRAM-like performance

Capacity 4800GB, 2200GB, 1100GB, 550GB Industry leadership in capacity in HH-HL form factor

Reliability Power fail protection Assures data integrity during power failures

FlashMAX® II PCIe SSD

HGST Quality and Service

HGST’s FlashMAX II family extends the
company’s long-standing tradition of
performance and reliability leadership. A
balanced combination of new and proven
technologies enables high reliability and
availability to customer data.

HGST drives are backed by an array of
technical support and services, which may
include customer and integration assistance.
HGST is dedicated to providing a complete
portfolio of SSD/HDD solutions to satisfy
today’s monumental computing needs.

Highest Capacity in Low Profile

The FlashMAX II Capacity model delivers 4.8TB of
flash in a single low profile form factor PCIe device.
FlashMAX II Capacity enables new levels of con­solidation in the data center, making it ideal for web
scale, enterprise and service provider environments
requiring the maximum usable flash capacity.

Flash-aware RAID

vFAS supports flash-aware RAID for enhanced reli­ability and data availability. This feature allows the
discrete flash components included on the card to
be isolated as separate slices to provide 7+1 RAID
protection, implemented in a flash optimized man­ner. The flash modules on a card are spread across
RAID groups, allowing for multiple failures to occur
without disrupting an application’s access to the
data. This delivers continuity of operations in the
event there are failures with the flash media itself.

Information and Technical Support

www.hgst.com (main website)
www.hgst.com/partners (partner website)

North America

[e-mail]
Toll Free: [phone], Direct: [phone]

Asia Pacific

[e-mail] / [phone]

EMEA and UK

[e-mail] / [phone]

Germany

[e-mail] / [phone]

Program Support

Partners First Program: [e-mail]

Specifications

Model # / Part # VIR-HW-M2-LP-550-1B / 0T00809

Configuration

Interface PCIe 2.0 (x8)

Form factor Half-Height, Half-Length (HH-HL) add-in card

Performance

Capacities (GB2) 550, 1100 1100, 2200 4800

Read throughput (max MB/s, sequential 64K) 1,600 2,700 2,600

Write throughput (max MB/s, sequential 64K) 550 1,000 900

Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 4K) 174,000 343,000 269,000

Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 4K) 27,000 57,000 51,000

Peak write IOPS (max IOPS, random 4k) 109,000 243,000 213,000

Mixed IOPS (70/30 R/W, random 4k) 72,000 154,000 128,000

Peak mixed IOPS (70/30 R/W, random 4k) 161,000 314,000 264,000

Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k) 125,000 247,000 214,000

Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k) 13,000 28,000 27,000

Latency 512B (μs) 21 20 19

Endurance

Random 3 DW/D 3 DW/D 1.3 DW/D

Warranty

Warranty 3 years 3 years 5 years

Physical

Dimensions, without bracket (mm) 167.54 x 68.91 x 18.39

Weight (g) 141.75 198.45 198.45

Environmental

Power consumption (max) 25 Watts

Operating temperature 0° to 45°C

Non-operating temperature -40° to 70°C

JEDEC compliance 3-month retention at 40°C at EOL

Operating Systems

Linux RHEL 5/6, SLES 10/11, CentOS 5/6, Oracle EL 5/6, Debian

Windows 64-Bit Microsoft Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 2K-8 R2,

VMware ESXi 5.X

Software

HGST Device Manager (HDM) CLI and GUI interface

1

All performance measurements are in full sustained mode except where noted as “Peak.”

2

One gigabyte (GB) is equal to one billion bytes, one terabyte (TB) is equal to 1,000GB (one trillion bytes), and one petabyte (PB) is equal to 1,000TB
(one quadrillion bytes) when referring to solid-state drive or hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity will vary from the stated capacity due to
formatting and partitioning of the drive, the computer’s operating system, and other factors.

1

VIR-HW-M2-LP-1100-1B / 0T00817
VIR-HW-M2-LP-1100-2B / 0T00812
VIR-HW-M2-LP-2200-2B / 0T00803
VIR-HW-M2-LP-4800-2B / 0T00819

STANDARD MODELS PERFORMANCE MODELS CAPACITY MODEL

4/5/6, Ubuntu 8/9/10/11/12, Fedora Core 12-18, Open SUSE
11, 12

Hyper-V core server, Windows 2012 Server, Windows
2012 Hyper-V core server

Agency Certifications

RoHS (DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU) REACH SVHC
USA/Canada | UL 60950 1 & CSA C22.2, FCC Part 15 Subpart B; Section 15.109A/ANSI C63.4 (2003); ICES-003
Version 4, Class A; Radiated & Conducted Emissions Class A; EN 55022, Class A; EN 55024 Immunity

Europe | 2004/108/EC EMC Directive; CE IEC 61000 Class A Mark
Japan | VCCI - V-1/2009.04

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