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Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs

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Abstract

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA solid-state drives (SSDs) for System x use 20nm Intel NAND flash memory technology with SATA 6Gbps interface to provide a high-performance, high-endurance storage solution in either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive form factor.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the S3710 SSD offerings and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about S3710 SSDs and consider their use in IT solutions.

Withdrawn: All S3710 drive options are now withdrawn from marketing.

Introduction

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA solid-state drives (SSDs) for System x use 20nm Intel NAND flash memory technology with SATA 6Gbps interface to provide a high-performance, high-endurance storage solution in either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive form factor.

The Intel SSD S3710 drives with 10 full drives writes per day (DWD) are an excellent choice for applications demanding high write performance, such as High Performance Computing (HPC), High Definition Imaging and Video (HDIV), high data rate analytics and databases, large-scale virtualization, and video on demand content delivery.

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA solid-state drive is shown in the following figure.

S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSD in a 2.5-inch hot-swap form factor
Figure 1. Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSD in a 2.5-inch hot-swap form factor

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By combining the latest 20 nm MLC NAND flash memory technology with Intel’s latest controller technology, the design of Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs delivers consistent performance, reduced power consumption, and end-to-end data protection, as well as being optimized for endurance and IOPS/watt.

Rigorous testing of Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs by Lenovo through the ServerProven® program ensures a high degree of storage subsystem compatibility and reliability. Providing additional peace of mind, these drives are covered under Lenovo warranty.

Part number information

The following table lists the information for ordering part numbers and feature codes.

Withdrawn: All S3710 drive options are now withdrawn from marketing.

Table 1. Ordering information
Part number Feature Description
00YC320 AT9C Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD
00YC325 AT9D Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD
00YC330 AT9E Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD
00YC340 AT9G Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD
00YC345 AT9H Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD
00YC350 AT9J Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale
00YC355 AT9K Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale

 The part numbers include the following items:

  • One SSD (HS and G3HS part numbers have a hot-swap tray attached)
  • Support Flyer for SSDs
  • Warranty flyer and Important Notices document

Features

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs have the following features:

  • Industry-standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch form factors
  • Cost-effective Intel 20 nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash memory
  • Endurance of 10 drive writes per day (DWPD) for 5 years, using Intel High Endurance Technology (HET). This equates to a total bytes written (TBW) value of:
    • 200 GB drive: 3.6 PB
    • 400 GB drive: 8.3 PB
    • 800 GB drive: 16.9 PB
  • SATA MLC solid-state drive with high read performance and consistently low latencies to fulfill client needs in the enterprise space
  • High reliability and enhanced ruggedness
  • Energy saving, with 6.9 W typical power consumption per drive
  • Absence of moving parts to reduce potential failure points in the server
  • S.M.A.R.T. support
  • Advanced Encrypting Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption
  • Full end-to-end data path protection
  • Thermal throttling to extend the life of the drive
  • Enhanced power loss data protection

The key difference between Enterprise Performance SSDs such as the S3710 SSDs and Enterprise Entry SSDs, such as the S3510 SSDs, is their endurance (life expectancy). SSDs have a huge, but finite, number of program/erase (P/E) cycles, which determines how long the drives can perform write operations and thus their life expectancy. Enterprise Performance SSDs have better endurance than the Enterprise Value SSDs, but at a higher cost/IOPS ratio.

SSD write endurance is typically measured by the number of program/erase cycles that the drive can incur over its lifetime, which is listed as TBW in the device specification. The TBW value that is assigned to a solid-state device is the total bytes of written data that a drive can be guaranteed to complete. Reaching this limit does not cause the drive to immediately fail; the TBW simply denotes the maximum number of writes that can be guaranteed.

A solid-state device does not fail upon reaching the specified TBW, but at some point after surpassing the TBW value (and based on manufacturing variance margins), the drive reaches the end-of-life point, at which time the drive goes into read-only mode. Because of such behavior, careful planning must be done to use SSDs in the application environments to ensure that the TBW of the drive is not exceeded before the required life expectancy.

For example, the Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD has an endurance of 3,600 TB (3.6 PB) of total bytes written (TBW) over five years. This means that for full operation over five years, write workload must be limited to no more than 2 TB of writes per day. For the device to last in three years, the drive write workload must be limited to no more than 3.3 TB of writes per day.

Technical specifications

The following table presents technical specifications for the Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs.

Table 2. Technical specifications
Feature 200 GB drive 400 GB drive 800 GB drive
Part number - 2.5" G3HS 00YC320 00YC325 00YC330
Part number - 3.5" HS None 00YC340 00YC345
Part number - 2.5" NeXtScale 00YC350 00YC355 None
Interface 6 Gbps SATA 6 Gbps SATA 6 Gbps SATA
Capacity 200 GB 400 GB 800 GB
Endurance (drive
writes per day)
10 DWPD 10 DWPD 10 DWPD
Endurance
(total bytes written)
3.6 PB 8.3 PB 16.9 PB
Data reliability < 1 in 1017 bits read < 1 in 1017 bits read < 1 in 1017 bits read
MTBF 2,000,000 hours 2,000,000 hours 2,000,000 hours
IOPS reads (4 KB blocks) 85,000 85,000 85,000
IOPS writes (4 KB blocks) 45,000 45,000 45,000
Sequential read rate
(128 KB blocks)
550 MBps 550 MBps 550 MBps
Sequential write rate
(128 KB blocks)
520 MBps 520 MBps 520 MBps
Read latency (seq) 55 µs 55 µs 55 µs
Write latency (seq) 66 µs 66 µs 66 µs
Shock, operating 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms
Vibration, operating 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz)
Vibration, non-operating 3.13 GRMS (5-700 Hz) 3.13 GRMS (5-700 Hz) 3.13 GRMS (5-700 Hz)
Typical power 6.9 W 6.9 W 6.9 W

Server support

The following tables list the servers that support the Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs.

Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors

Table 3. Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E5 v5 processors
Part
number
Description
x3250 M6 (3943)
x3250 M6 (3633)
x3550 M5 (8869)
x3650 M5 (8871)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v4)
nx360 M5 (5465, E5-2600 v4)
sd350 (5493)
00YC320 S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y N
00YC325 S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y Y
00YC330 S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y N
00YC340 S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N Y Y N N N
00YC345 S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N Y Y N N N
00YC350 S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N Y N
00YC355 S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N Y N

Support for System x and dense servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors

Table 4. Support for System x servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors
Part
number
Description
x3100 M5 (5457)
x3250 M5 (5458)
x3500 M5 (5464)
x3550 M5 (5463)
x3650 M5 (5462)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v3)
nx360 M5 (5465)
00YC320 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y Y
00YC325 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y Y
00YC330 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N Y Y Y Y Y
00YC340 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD Y Y Y Y Y N N
00YC345 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD Y Y Y Y Y N N
00YC350 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N Y
00YC355 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N Y

Support for System x servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors

Table 5. Support for System x servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors
Part
number
Description
x3500 M4 (7383, E5-2600 v2)
x3530 M4 (7160, E5-2400 v2)
x3550 M4 (7914, E5-2600 v2)
x3630 M4 (7158, E5-2400 v2)
x3650 M4 (7915, E5-2600 v2)
x3650 M4 BD (5466)
x3650 M4 HD (5460)
x3750 M4 (8752)
x3750 M4 (8753)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (3837)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v2)
dx360 M4 (E5-2600 v2)
nx360 M4 (5455)
00YC320 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N Y N N
00YC325 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N Y N N
00YC330 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N Y N N
00YC340 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC345 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC350 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC355 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N N N N N N N N

Support for Flex System compute nodes

Table 6. Support for Flex System servers
Part
number
Description
x220 (7906)
x222 (7916)
x240 (8737, E5-2600)
x240 (8737, E5-2600 v2)
x240 (7162)
x240 M5 (9532, v3 & v4)
x440 (7917)
x440 (7167)
x880/x480/x280 X6 (7903)
x280/x480/x880 X6 (7196)
Storage Expansion Node
00YC320 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N Y N N N Y N
00YC325 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N Y N N N Y N
00YC330 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA G3HS 2.5" SSD N N N N N Y N N N Y N
00YC340 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC345 Intel S3710 800GB Enterprise Performance SATA HS 3.5" SSD N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC350 Intel S3710 200GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N N N N N N
00YC355 Intel S3710 400GB Enterprise Performance SATA 2.5" SSD for NeXtScale N N N N N N N N N N N

Storage controller support

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs require a supported disk controller. The following table lists the controllers and the servers that support those controllers.

Table 7. Controllers for supported servers
    Xeon v3 Xeon v4 v5 Flex
Part
number
Description
x3100 M5 (5457)
x3500 M5 (5464)
x3550 M5 (5463)
x3650 M5 (5462)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v3)
nx360 M5 (5465, E5-2600 v3)
x3550 M5 (8869)
x3650 M5 (8871)
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v4)
nx360 M5 (5465, E5-2600 v4)
sd350 (5493)
x3250 M6 (3943)
x3250 M6 (3633)
x240 M5 (9532)
x280/x480/x880 X6 (7196)
81Y4492 ServeRAID H1110 Controller Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
81Y4448 ServeRAID M1115 Controller Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
Onboard ServeRAID M1200e Controller N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y
00JY194 ServeRAID M1210 Controller N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y N N
46C9114 ServeRAID M1215 Controller N Y Y Y N Y Y Y N Y N Y Y N N
81Y4481 ServeRAID M5110 Controller Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
46C9110 ServeRAID M5210 Controller N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y N N
00JX142 ServeRAID M5215 Controller N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y N
Onboard ThinkServer sd350 onboard N N N N N N N N N N Y N N N N
00YD430 H701-L 6Gb HBA Mezz Card N N N N N N N N N N Y N N N N
46C8988 N2115 SAS/SATA HBA Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
47C8675 N2215 SAS/SATA HBA N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y N N

Operating system support

SSDs operate transparently to users, storage systems, applications, databases, and operating systems. The controllers that support SSDs are supported by the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x86 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x86 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x86 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x86 Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server with Xen x64 Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64/EM64T
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T
  • VMware ESX 4.1
  • VMware ESXi 4.1
  • VMware vSphere 5.0 (ESXi)
  • VMware vSphere 5.1 (ESXi)
  • VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)

For the latest information about the specific supported operating system versions and service packs, see  ServerProven:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/xseries/controllers/matrix.shtml

Select the check mark box that is associated with the controller and server combination in question to see the details about operating system support.

Warranty

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs carry a one-year, customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty. When the SSDs are installed in a supported server, these drives assume the system’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.

Solid State Memory cells have an intrinsic, finite number of program/erase cycles that each cell can incur. As a result, each solid state device has a maximum amount of program/erase cycles to which it can be subjected. The warranty for Lenovo solid state drives (SSDs) is limited to drives that have not reached the maximum guaranteed number of program/erase cycles, as documented in the Official Published Specifications for the SSD product. A drive that reaches this limit may fail to operate according to its Specifications.

Physical specifications

The S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs have the following physical specifications.

Dimensions and weight (approximate, without drive tray):

  • Height: 7 mm (0.3 in.)
  • Width: 70 mm (2.8 in.)
  • Depth: 100 mm (4.0 in.)
  • Weight: 74 g (2.6 oz lb)

Shipping dimensions and weight - 2.5-inch drives (approximate):

  • Height: 63 mm (2.5 in.)
  • Width: 174 mm (6.9 in.)
  • Depth: 133 mm (5.2 in.)
  • Weight: 434 g (1.0 lb)

Shipping dimensions and weight- 3.5-inch drives (approximate):

  • Height: 95 mm (3.7 in.)
  • Width: 257 mm (10.1 in.)
  • Depth: 193 mm (7.6 in.)
  • Weight: 484 g (1.1 lb)

Operating environment

The S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs are supported in the following environment:

  • Temperature: 0 - 70 °C (32 - 158°F)
  • Relative humidity: 5 - 95% (noncondensing)
  • Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft)

Agency approvals

The Intel S3710 Enterprise Performance SATA SSDs conform to the following regulations:

  • FCC Title 47, Part 15B, Class B
  • CA/CSA-CEI/IEC CISPR 22:02
  • EN 55024: 1998
  • EN 55022: 2006
  • EN-60950-1 2nd Edition
  • UL/CSA EN-60950-1 2nd Edition
  • Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC
  • C-Tick: AS/NZS3584
  • BSMI: CNS 13438
  • KCC Article 11.1
  • RoHS DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU
  • WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC

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