IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#1890) 69GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive
(Refurbished Condition Only as of July 29, 2011)
The 69GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive (SSD) provides 69.7 GB of very high performance storage, much faster than spinning disk drives with their delays due to positioning the disk arm and waiting for the spinning disk to rotate under the arm. SSD also provide lower power utilization than spinning or hard disk drives (HDD). The drive is formatted to 69.7 GB and can be used by AIX, Linux IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#1890) and IBM i IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#1909). Both are identical drives, but have different feature codes to help the IBM configuration tools understand how the SSD is used.
Connector - standard SAS dual port
3Gb/sec SAS device (300 MB/sec)
528 bytes sectors Power System
Attributes provided: 69.7 GB of formatted drive storage mounted in a SFF carrier
Attributes required: One SFF SAS drive bay in the 8203-E4A or 8204-E8A CEC or available SFF SAS bay in 12X I/O Drawer PCIe, SFF disk. SAS Disk and SSD on same backplane is not supported.
For 8204-E8A: IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#1890)
Minimum required: 0
Maximum allowed: 80 (Initial order maximum: 80)
OS level required:
AIX 5L for POWER version 5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level and Service Pack 9, or later.
AIX 5L for POWER version 5.3 with the 5300-08 Technology Level and Service Pack 7, or later.
AIX 5L for POWER version 5.3 with the 5300-09 Technology Level and Service Pack 4, or later.
AIX 5L for POWER version 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level, or later.
AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-00 Technology Level and Service Pack 9, or later.
AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-01 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later.
AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-02 Technology Level and Service Pack 4, or later.
AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level, or later.
No IBM i Support
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for POWER Systems, or later.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 for POWER, or later.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 for POWER, or later.
Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both
CSU: Yes
Return parts MES: No
Note: A Max of 8 supported in CEC IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#8346) and may not be mixed on same backplane with SAS SFF disk. Up to 18 supported in each #5802 and may not mix with SFF SAS disk. VIOS attachment requires VIOS 2.1.2.0 or later supported. AIX and Linux system Max is 80.
