DELL 800GB 12G SAS Write Intensive SSD 2.5" SFF

The DELL 800GB 12G SAS Write Intensive SSD 2.5" SFF is a 800 GB solid-state drive on a SAS 12G interface, for HPE ProLiant Gen9 / Gen10 / Gen11 servers. For anything latency-sensitive — databases, virtual machines, the OS volume — an SSD is the right answer. The gap against a mechanical drive is two to three orders of magnitude in IOPS, not a few percent. Two practical notes. First, the drive has to come in the caddy for its generation — the Gen8–Gen10 Smart Carrier and the Gen10-and-later Basic Carrier are not interchangeable, and a bare drive will not seat in a hot-plug bay. Second, in a RAID array every member should have the same capacity and speed; if one is smaller, the controller treats every disk as if it were that size. Every drive is SMART-checked and surface-tested before it ships, and its power-on hours are disclosed.