DATA SHEET
Ultrastar® SS300
ENTERP RISE SOLID STATE DRIV ES
Highlights
• 3D MLC or TLC NAND Flash for ultra-high
performance and endurance
• Best IOPs/Watt for reduced TCO
• 12Gb/s SAS interface for maximum throughput
• Advanced power loss data management
technology
• Self-encrypting models conform to TCG’s
Enterprise speciication
Applications/Environments
• Ultra-high performance tier-0 enterprise storage
• Enterprise-class servers and high performance
computing
• Space and/or power constrained environments
• Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
• Video pre/post-production
• Financial and e-commerce
• Database analytics
Increase Productivity and Operational Eiciency
by Boosting IOPS Performance with SAS SSDs
As data centers and enterprises struggle to manage the growing abundance and availability
of data, the next generation of SAS SSDs with enhanced performance and endurance arrives
to help address data access challenges. The Ultrastar® SS300 solid-state drive (SSD) is oered
in a 2.5-inch small form factor that delivers ultra-high performance to power through the most
challenging workloads.
Designed with a 12Gb/s SAS interface for seamless integration into enterprise environments,
the Ultrastar SS300 delivers high sequential throughput, up to 2100MB/s read at 14W power.
Available with capacities from 7.68TB to 400GB, the SS300 delivers up to 400,000 read and
200,000 write IOPSdouble the speed of current 12Gb/s SSDs—providing rapid access to
“hot” enterprise data for higher productivity and operational eiciency. The Ultrastar SS300
family oers signiicant value in terms of IOPS per Watt, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO)
through low power consumption, eicient cooling and reduced space requirements.
Data Durability and Security with Industry-Leading
Quality and Reliability
Ultrastar SS300 combines enterprise-grade 3D MLC or TLC NAND lash memory, advanced
endurance management irmware and power loss data management techniques to extend
reliability, endurance, and sustained performance over the life of the SSD. The Ultrastar SS300
family achieves an extraordinary 0.35% annual failure rate (AFR) or 2.5 million hours mean-timebetween-failure (MTBF). The 3.2TB 10 DW/D capacity Ultrastar SSD endures up to 59 petabytes
(PB) of random writes over the life of the drivethe equivalent of writing 16 terabytes (TB) per
day for ive years.
For complete end-to-end data protection and reliability, the Ultrastar SS300 family incorporates
the T10 Data Integrity Field (DIF) standard, extended error correction code (ECC), ExclusiveOR (XOR) parity to protect against lash die failure, parity-checked internal data paths without
an external write cache, and an exclusive power loss data management feature that does not
require supercapacitors. The Ultrastar SS300 family is backed by a ive year limited warranty, or
the maximum Petabytes (PB) written (based on capacity), whichever comes irst.
3.2TB – 400GB | MLC
7.68TB – 480GB | TLC
2.5-inch SFF | SAS 12Gb/s
Features & Beneits
Feature / Function Beneits
Performance
Power
Capacity
Reliability
Data Security
Integration
• SAS 12Gb/s interface
• MLC NAND lash memory
• 2100 / 2050 MB/s sequential R/W
• 400K / 200K IOPS random R/W
• 285K IOPS on 70/30 mixed R/W
• 9, 11 & 14 Watt options • Higher IOPS performance with higher power options
• 7.68TB to 400GB • More capacity in standard form factor with lower Watts/TB
• 0.35% AFR (2.5M hours MTBF)
• 1E17 bit error rate
• Power loss data management
• Unlimited reads, up to 59 PB writes
• T10 end-to-end data protection
• Exclusive-OR (XOR) NAND
• Crypto Sanitize models
• TCG encryption models
• TCG + FIPS encryption models
• HDD architecture commonality
• Extensive systems integration and test lab
Trust Your Storage Systems with SSD Products
Developed by Experts in Enterprise Storage
The HGST brand leverages decades of proven enterprise storage expertise in Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) design, reliability, irmware, customer qualiication and system integration to the
Ultrastar SS300 family. The synergistic relationship between the new throughput-enhancing
SSDs and traditional HDDs provides cost eective, end-to-end enterprise-class storage options,
delivering reliability, compatibility, capacity, cost and system performance. This combination
makes HGST-brand storage drives an ideal choice to help meet escalating reliability, endurance,
and performance in the most demanding enterprise environments.
• 12G Active-Active Dual port & 12G single/dual port for enhanced reliability
• Highest read/write performance at 14W operating power
• Maximum throughput and IOPs for ultra-fast access to data. Double write performance
of other 12Gb/s SAS SSD
• Reduced ield replacement eort
• Enhanced error detection and correction for optimal data integrity
• Assures data integrity during power failure
• Support for extreme write-intensive applications
• Protection against lash die failure
• Enables swift drive redeployment and retirement
• Hardware-based encryption protects data from unauthorized use
• Compatibility with Ultrastar SAS HDD
• Experienced interoperability and compliance testing