960GB SATA 6G RI SFF BC MV SSD

The HPE P40498-B21-RFB is the catalogue variant of the 960GB SATA 6G Read Intensive SFF BC Multi Vendor SSD, based on HPE product number P40498-B21. Designed for server storage, it uses a SATA interface and SFF 2.5-inch format.

TLC memory and hot-plug support suit compatible server bays. The drive is 7 mm high and uses a Basic Carrier. Its Read Intensive workload class fits uses dominated by data retrieval.

HPE specifies read speed of 515 MB/s and write speed of 480 MB/s. Random performance is 58,500 IOPS for 4 KiB reads and 29,000 IOPS for 4 KiB writes; read latency is 125 µs and write latency is 60 µs.

Server applications include boot or swap storage, web servers and read caching, as well as big data analytics, cloud computing, active archiving, database applications and data warehousing. Endurance is specified at 0.8 DWPD and 1,400 lifetime writes.