© 2009 IBM Corporation IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters Defining Next Generation Storage with Enterprise-Class Reliability System x and BladeCenter Worldwide Marketing

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 2 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters A New Standard for Enterprise-Class Reliability The world of storage is no longer just about capacity; it's now also about the need for extremely fast and reliable access to data. The ever-increasing demand on today's servers, combined with the exponential growth of processor performance, has exposed the limitations of today's aging storage architectures. The time has come for a truly innovative solution that takes enterprise data availability, scalability and access rates to a new level of simplicity and performance, without sacrifices. Are performance bottlenecks in your storage infrastructure inhibiting business growth?

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 3 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters turn disk-drive based, performance-critical SAN environments from this… January 2, Storage Consolidation Into this…

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 4 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. The performance of a SAN in the palm of your hand Introducing IBMs High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters Based on fast growing solid state device (SSD) technology Leadership technology backed by IBM service and support Standard PCI-E form factor supports a broad set of IBM platforms Available in 160GB and 320GB capacities Lowers CAPEX and OPEX Superior solution to enterprise disk drives for applications sustaining high operations per second – e.g. database, data warehouse, stream analytics

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 5 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. Enterprise grade performance January 2, Key benefits of IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter: IOPS performance of up to 250 disk drives 1 enables clients to shrink their storage footprint in an ever-increasing datacenter real estate world With 1/100 th the latency (50us) of a disk drive 2, High IOPS SSD PCIe adapters are the answer to real-time, performance hungry data processing Predictable lifetime compared to sporadic failure of disk drives allows clients to plan their hardware upgrades in a timely and scheduled manner Performance [1] 97,014 IOPS measured at 4K block random reads for High IOPS SSD Adapters, versus 420 IOPS measured at 4k block reads for a 15K RPM 146GB disk drive [2] Measured against 15K RPM 146GB disk drive

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 6 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. Product Stability Key benefits of IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter: Up to 25 years of data retention gives clients the peace of mind that their data is in safe hands Customers can expect RAID-grade data restoration and protection with N+1 chip-level redundancy 11-bit ECC provides the highest level of online media wear-out predicting, monitoring and date correction Advance bad block management algorithms enables taking blocks out of service when their failure rate becomes unacceptable Reliability

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 7 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. Key benefits of IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter: Significant power advantages with 9W delivering 100,000K IOPS versus 5.5W for 420 IOPS that disk drives can deliver 2 Elimination of moving parts paves the way for an efficient solution Increased performance with significant reduction in datacenter footprint for storage Realization of higher performance through lowering power and reduction in footprint reverses the unsustainable trend of increasing data center cooling cost. Green Energy Efficient & Power Savings [2] Measured against 15K RPM 146GB disk drive

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 8 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. Affordable ultra-high performance The performance of a SAN in the palm of your hand CAPEX savings –$15.3K total cost versus $77.5 for a solution based on 50GB SATA 2.5" SFF SSD $134.7K for a solution based on 146GB 15K 3.5" Hot-Swap SAS HDD –Smaller storage footprint 42U and 11U rack configurations for HDD and SSD solutions versus in-server storage (2U) OPEX savings –Reduced power and cooling costs with 18 Watts versus Watts for a solution based on 50GB SATA 2.5" SFF SSD 2778 Watts for a solution based on 146GB 15K 3.5" Hot- Swap SAS HDD 1 calculations are based on 60W for EXP3000, 8W for 146GB 15K SAS HDD, 2W for 50GB SSD, 9W for MR10M Controller and 9W for 160GB SSD PCIe Adapter

© 2009 IBM Corporation System x ® and BladeCenter ® 9 Innovation Comes Standard. Reduce Cost. Improve Service. Manage Risk. IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters at a glance Part number46M0877 IBM 160GB High IOPS SS Class SSD PCIe Adapter 46M0898 IBM 320GB High IOPS MS Class SSD PCIe Adapter Capacity160 GB320 GB Performance100,000 IOPS (sustained 4K random read) Performance FeaturesLess than of 50µs latency Sustain 600 MB/s random writes Bus interfacePCI-Express x4 Airflow300 LFM Operating temperature0º C/32º F to 55º C/131º F Non-operating temperature-40º C/-40º F to 70º C/158º F Humidity5% to 95% (relative, non-condensing) Power dissipation6 W (nominal), 9W (maximum) Management suiteIBM High IOPS Launch Manager Supported serversVisit the IBM ServerProven page for the latest supported servers at ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/ compat/usibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/ compat/us Operating systemsMicrosoft® Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux, VMware Form factorLow Profile MD2 Limited warranty 1 3-year limited warranty, post warranty support is available through the System x® Special Bid process.

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