Lenovo ThinkSystem 5200 Mainstream SATA 6Gb SED SSDs Owner’s Manual

: June 3, 2024
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Lenovo ThinkSystem 5200 Mainstream SATA 6Gb SED SSDs

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ThinkSystem SS530 Performance 12Gb SAS SED SSDs
Product Guide (withdrawn product)
The ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SED SSDs are high-performance self- encrypting drives (SEDs) that adheres to the Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security Subsystem Class cryptographic standard (TCG Enterprise SSC). The drives use second generation 3D TLC NAND flash memory technology with a 12 Gb SAS interface to provide a high-performance storage solution that is ideal for write-intensive applications with data security requirements. Figure 1. ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SSDs (without the Lenovo label and hot-swap tray)

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Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) provide benefits by encrypting data on-the-fly at the drive level with no performance impact, by providing instant secure erasure thereby making the data no longer readable, and by enabling auto- locking to secure active data if a drive is misplaced or stolen from a system while in use. These features are essential for many businesses, especially those storing customer data.
The SS530 Performance SSDs are also available without SED encryption, as described in the ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SSDs product guide, available from https://lenovopress.com/lp1031.

Part number information

The following table lists the available drive options.

Withdrawn from marketing: The drive listed in this product guide is now withdrawn from marketing

Table 1. Ordering information

Part number	Feature	Description

2.5-inch hot-swap drives
4XB7A14062| B6K1| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 960GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED
4XB7A14063| B6K0| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED
4XB7A13981| B93J| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 (Max) 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED
4XB7A13982| B81X| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 3.84TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED

The benefits of drive encryption

Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) provide benefits in three main ways:

By encrypting data on-the-fly at the drive level with no performance impact
By providing instant secure erasure (cryptographic erasure, thereby making the data no longer readable)
By enabling auto-locking to secure active data if a drive is misplaced or stolen from a system while in use

The following sections describe the benefits in more details.

Automatic encryption

It is vital that a company keep its data secure. With the threat of data loss due to physical theft or improper inventory practices, it is important that the data be encrypted. However, challenges with performance, scalability, and complexity have led IT departments to push back against security policies that require the use of encryption. In addition, encryption has been viewed as risky by those unfamiliar with key management, a process for ensuring a company can always decrypt its own data. Self-encrypting drives comprehensively resolve these issues, making encryption both easy and affordable.
When the self-encrypting drive is in normal use, its owner need not maintain authentication keys (otherwise known as credentials or passwords) in order to access the data on the drive. The self-encrypting drive will encrypt data being written to the drive and decrypt data being read from it, all without requiring an authentication key from the owner.

Drive retirement and disposal
When hard drives are retired and moved outside the physically protected data center into the hands of others, the data on those drives is put at significant risk. IT departments retire drives for a variety of reasons, including:

Returning drives for warranty, repair, or expired lease agreements
Removal and disposal of drives
Repurposing drives for other storage duties

Nearly all drives eventually leave the data center and their owner’s control. Corporate data resides on such drives, and when most leave the data center, the data they contain is still readable. Even data that has been striped across many drives in a RAID array is vulnerable to data theft because just a typical single stripe in today’s high-capacity arrays is large enough to expose for example, hundreds of names and bank account numbers.

In an effort to avoid data breaches and the ensuing customer notifications required by data privacy laws, companies use different methods to erase the data on retired drives before they leave the premises and potentially fall into the wrong hands. Current retirement practices that are designed to make data unreadable rely on significant human involvement in the process, and are thus subject to both technical and human failure.

The drawbacks of today’s drive retirement practices include the following:

Overwriting drive data is expensive, tying up valuable system resources for days. No notification of completion is generated by the drive, and overwriting won’t cover reallocated sectors, leaving that data exposed.
Methods that include degaussing or physically shredding a drive are expensive. It is difficult to ensure the degauss strength is optimized for the drive type, potentially leaving readable data on the drive. Physically shredding the drive is environmentally hazardous, and neither practice allows the drive to be returned for warranty or expired lease.
Some companies have concluded the only way to securely retire drives is to keep them in their control, storing them indefinitely in warehouses. But this is not truly secure because a large volume of drives coupled with human involvement inevitably leads to some drives being lost or stolen.
Professional disposal services is an expensive option and includes the cost of reconciling the services as well as internal reports and auditing. Transporting of the drives also has the potential of putting the data at risk.

Self-encrypting drives eliminate the need to overwrite, destroy, or store retired drives. When the drive is to be retired, it can be cryptographically erased, a process that is nearly instantaneous regardless of the capacity of the drive.

Instant secure erase

The self-encrypting drive provides instant data encryption key destruction via cryptographic erasure. When it is time to retire or repurpose the drive, the owner sends a command to the drive to perform a cryptographic erasure. Cryptographic erasure simply replaces the encryption key inside the encrypted drive, making it impossible to ever decrypt the data encrypted with the deleted key.
Self-encrypting drives reduce IT operating expenses by reducing asset control challenges and disposal costs. Data security with self-encrypting drives helps ensure compliance with privacy regulations without hindering IT efficiency. So called “Safe Harbor” clauses in government regulations allow companies to not have to notify customers of occurrences of data theft if that data was encrypted and therefore unreadable.
Furthermore, self-encrypting drives simplify decommissioning and preserve hardware value for returns and repurposing by:

Eliminating the need to overwrite or destroy the drive
Securing warranty returns and expired lease returns
Enabling drives to be repurposed securely

Auto-locking

Insider theft or misplacement is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes; in addition, managers of branch offices and small businesses without strong physical security face greater vulnerability to external theft. Self- encrypting drives include a feature called auto-lock mode to help secure active data against theft.
Using a self-encrypting drive when auto-lock mode is enabled simply requires securing the drive with an authentication key. When secured in this manner, the drive’s data encryption key is locked whenever the drive is powered down. In other words, the moment the self-encrypting drive is switched off or unplugged, it automatically locks down the drive’s data.
When the self-encrypting drive is then powered back on, it requires authentication before being able to unlock its encryption key and read any data on the drive, thus protecting against misplacement and theft.

While using self-encrypting drives just for the instant secure erase is an extremely efficient and effective means to help securely retire a drive, using self-encrypting drives in auto-lock mode provides even more advantages. From the moment the drive or system is removed from the data center (with or without authorization), the drive is locked. No advance thought or action is required from the data center administrator to protect the data. This helps prevent a breach should the drive be mishandled and helps secure the data against the threat of insider or outside theft.

Features

The ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SSDs have the following features:

Industry standard 2.5-inch form factor
Compliant with Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security Subsystem Class cryptographic standard (TCG Enterprise SSC)
Supports the SafeStore self-encrypting drive (SED) functionality of ThinkSystem RAID adapters
Based on proven Western Digital Ultrastar SS530 drive technology
Uses second-generation 3D Triple Level Cell (TLC) NAND flash memory
Endurance of up to 10 drive writes per day (DWPD) for 5 years.
High reliability and enhanced ruggedness
Energy saving, with 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
Supports Sanitize Cryptographic Erase
Supports TCG Encryption functions (non-FIPS)
Full end-to-end data path protection
- Extended error correction code (ECC)
- Exclusive-OR (XOR) parity to protect against Flash die failure
- Parity-checked internal data paths without an external write cache
- Power loss data management without the need for a supercapacitor

The key difference between Performance SSDs such as the SS530 SSDs described here and Entry and Mainstream 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. Performance SSDs have better endurance than the Mainstream and Entry 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 SS530 1.6TB drive has an endurance of 29.41 PB of total bytes written (TBW). This means that for full operation over five years, write workload must be limited to no more than 16.12 TB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 10.1 full drive writes per day (DWPD). For the device to last three years, the drive write workload must be limited to no more than 26.86 TB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 16.8 full drive writes per day.

Technical specifications

The following table presents technical specifications for the SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SSDs.

Table 2. Technical specifications

Feature| 960 GB drive| 1.92 TB PRO drive| 1.92 TB MAX drive| 3.84 TB drive
---|---|---|---|---
Interface| 6 Gbps SATA| 6 Gbps SATA| 6 Gbps SATA| 6 Gbps SATA
Capacity| 960 GB| 1.92 TB| 1.92 TB| 3.84 TB
Endurance
(drive writes per day)| 1.3 DWPD| 1.7 DWPD| 5.0 DWPD| 2.5 DWPD
Endurance
(total bytes written)| 2,270 TB| 5,950 TB| 17520 TB| 17,600 TB
Data reliability| < 1 in 1017 bits read| < 1 in 1017 bits read| < 1 in 1017 bits read| < 1 in 1017 bits read
MTBF| 3,000,000 hours| 3,000,000 hours| 3,000,000 hours| 3,000,000 hours
IOPS reads (4 KB blocks)| 95,000| 95,000| 95,000| 95,000
IOPS writes (4 KB blocks)| 32,000| 32,000| 70,000| 24,500
Sequential read rate (128 KB blocks)| 540 MBps| 540 MBps| 540 MBps| 540 MBps
Sequential write rate (128 KB blocks)| 520 MBps| 520 MBps| 520 MBps| 520 MBps
Read latency (seq)| 200 µs| 200 µs| 200 µs| 200 µs
Write latency (seq)| 300 µs| 300 µs| 300 µs| 900 µs
Shock, non-operating| 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 ms| 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 ms| 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 ms| 1,500 G (Max) at 0.5 ms
Vibration, non-operating| 3.13 GRMS (5-800 Hz)| 3.13 GRMS (5-800 Hz)| 3.13 GRMS (5-800 Hz)| 3.13 GRMS (5-800 Hz)
Typical power (Read / Write)| 2.8 / 3.4 W| 3.0 / 3.6 W| 3.0 / 3.6 W| 2.5 / 3.3 W

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 3. ThinkSystem server support (Part 1)

Part Number| Description| Edge| 1S Intel V2| 2S Intel V2| AMD| Dense V2| 4S V2| 8S
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X)| SE450 (7D8T)| ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J)| ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F)| SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q)| ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74)| SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)| SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)| SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)| SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99)| SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01)| SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X)| SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)| SD630 V2 (7D1K)| SD650 V2 (7D1M)| SD650-N V2 (7D1N)| SN550 V2 (7Z69)| SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32)| SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60)| SR950 (7X11 / 7X12)
4XB7A14062| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 960GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A14063| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A13981| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 (Max) 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A13982| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 3.84TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N

Table 4. ThinkSystem server support (Part 2)

Part Number| Description| 1S Intel V1| 2S Intel V1| Dense V1| 4S V1
---|---|---|---|---|---
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50)| ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46)| SR150 (7Y54)| SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51)| ST550 (7X09 / 7X10)| SR530 (7X07 / 7X08)| SR550 (7X03 / 7X04)| SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03)| SR590 (7X98 / 7X99)| SR630 (7X01 / 7X02)| SR650 (7X05 / 7X06)| SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37)| SD530 (7X21)| SD650 (7X58)| SN550 (7X16)| SN850 (7X15)| SR850 (7X18 / 7X19)| SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G)| SR860 (7X69 / 7X70)
4XB7A14062| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 960GB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A14063| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A13981| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 (Max) 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N
4XB7A13982| ThinkSystem 2.5″ 5200 3.84TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD SED| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N

Storage controller support

SAS and SATA SED drives require a supported controller, either a SAS HBA or a RAID controller, with SED support. SED support of RAID adapters is via the Mega RAID Safe Store functionality of the adapter. SED support of the SAS HBAs (where supported) is by using software on the server (SED commands are passed through the HBA to the drives).
The following table lists which ThinkSystem controllers support the use of SED drives.
Note: Not all servers that support these drives also support all of the adapters supported here. Consult the individual server product guide for specific server support of the adapters.

Table 5. ThinkSystem controller support for SED drives

Part number	Description	SED Services

SAS HBAs for internal drives
7Y37A01088| ThinkSystem 430-8i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA| Host software pass-thru
4C57A16217| ThinkSystem SD530 430-8i SAS/SATA 12Gb Dense HBA Kit| Host software pass-thru
7Y37A01089| ThinkSystem 430-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA| Host software pass-thru
4Y37A72480| ThinkSystem 4350-8i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA| No support
4Y37A72481| ThinkSystem 4350-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA| No support
4Y37A09725| ThinkSystem 440-16i SAS/SATA PCIe Gen4 12Gb Internal HBA| Host software pass-thru
RAID adapters for internal drives
None| Intel RSTe onboard controller| No support
7M27A03918| ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i 2 Drive Adapter Kit for SN550| MegaRAID SafeStore
7M17A03932| ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i 4 Drive Adapter Kit for SN850| MegaRAID SafeStore
7Y37A01082| ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A09727| ThinkSystem RAID 530-16i PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRIAD SafeStore
4C57A16216| ThinkSystem SD530 HW RAID Kit| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A72482| ThinkSystem RAID 5350-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter| No support
7Y37A01083| ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter| No support
4Y37A09722| ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
7M27A03917| ThinkSystem RAID 930-4i-2GB 2 Drive Adapter Kit for SN550| MegaRAID SafeStore
7M17A03933| ThinkSystem RAID 930-4i-2GB 4 Drive Adapter Kit for SN850| MegaRAID SafeStore
7Y37A01084| ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
7Y37A01085| ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A09721| ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i 8GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
7Y37A01086| ThinkSystem RAID 930-24i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A72483| ThinkSystem RAID 9350-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| No support
4Y37A72485| ThinkSystem RAID 9350-16i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter| No support
4Y37A72484| ThinkSystem RAID 9350-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Internal Adapter| No support
4Y37A72486| ThinkSystem RAID 9350-16i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Internal Adapter| No support
4Y37A09728| ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A09729| ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A78600| ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
Part number| Description| SED Services
---|---|---
4Y37A09730| ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A09735| ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Internal Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore
4Y37A09733| ThinkSystem RAID 940-32i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter| MegaRAID SafeStore

For more information, see the RAID adapter and HBA product guides:

RAID controllers: https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/raid
SAS HBAs: https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/hba

To compare the capabilities of these adapters, see the Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID Adapter and HBA Reference:
https://lenovopress.com/LP1288

Operating system support

SSDs operate transparently to users, storage systems, applications, databases, and operating systems.
Operating system support is based on the controller used to connect to the drives. Consult the controller product guide for more information:

RAID controllers: https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/raid
SAS HBAs: https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/hba

IBM SKLM Key Management support

To effectively manage a large deployment of SEDs in Lenovo servers, IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM) offers a centralized key management solution. Certain Lenovo servers support Features on Demand (FoD) license upgrades that enable SKLM support.
The following table lists the part numbers and feature codes to enable SKLM support in the management processor of the server.

Table 6. FoD upgrades for SKLM support

Part number	Feature code	Description

Security Key Lifecycle Manager – FoD (United States, Canada, Asia Pacific, and Japan)
00D9998| A5U1| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S
00D9999| AS6C| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S
Security Key Lifecycle Manager – FoD (Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
00FP648| A5U1| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S
00FP649| AS6C| SKLM for System x/ThinkSystem w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S

The IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager software is available from Lenovo using the ordering information listed in the following table.

Table 7. IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager licenses

Part number	Description
7S0A007FWW	IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager Basic Edition Install License +

SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007HWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Raw Decimal Terabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007KWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Raw Decimal Petabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007MWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Usable Decimal Terabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
7S0A007PWW| IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager For Usable Decimal Petabyte Storage Resource Value Unit License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 8. IBM SKLM Key Management support (Part 1 of 2)

Part Number| Description| Edge| 1S Intel V2| 2S Intel V2| AMD| Dense V2| 4S V2| 8S
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X)| SE450 (7D8T)| ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J)| ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F)| SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q)| ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74)| SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)| SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)| SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)| SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99)| SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01)| SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X)| SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)| SD630 V2 (7D1K)| SD650 V2 (7D1M)| SD650-N V2 (7D1N)| SN550 V2 (7Z69)| SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32)| SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60)| SR950 (7X11 / 7X12)
A5U1| SKLM for System x w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y
AS6C| SKLM for System x w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y

Table 9. IBM SKLM Key Management support (Part 2 of 2)

Part Number| Description| 1S Intel V1| 2S Intel V1| Dense V1| 4S V1
---|---|---|---|---|---
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50)| ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46)| SR150 (7Y54)| SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51)| ST550 (7X09 / 7X10)| SR530 (7X07 / 7X08)| SR550 (7X03 / 7X04)| SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03)| SR590 (7X98 / 7X99)| SR630 (7X01 / 7X02)| SR650 (7X05 / 7X06)| SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37)| SD530 (7X21)| SD650 (7X58)| SN550 (7X16)| SN850 (7X15)| SR850 (7X18 / 7X19)| SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G)| SR860 (7X69 / 7X70)
A5U1| SKLM for System x w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/1Yr S&S| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y
AS6C| SKLM for System x w/SEDs – FoD per Install w/3Yr S&S| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y

Warranty

ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SED 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

ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SED SSDs have the following physical specifications, without drive tray:

Height: 15 mm (0.6 inches)
Width: 70 mm (2.8 inches)
Depth: 100 mm (4.0 inches)
Weight: 175 g (6.2 ounces)

Operating environment

ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SED SSDs are supported in the following environment:

Temperature, operational: 0 to 75° C (32 to 167° F)
Temperature, shipping: -40 to 85° C (-40 to 185° F)
Relative humidity: 5 to 95% (noncondensing)
Maximum altitude: 3,050 m (10,000 ft)

Agency approvals

ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SED 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
VCCI V-3/2013-04 Class B
CNS 13438: 2006
KCC Article 11.1
RoHS DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU
REACH 1907/2006
WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC

Related publications and links
For more information, see the following documents:

ThinkSystem SS530 Performance SAS 12Gb SSDs (non-SED drives):
https://lenovopress.com/lp1031-thinksystem-ss530-performance-sas-12gb-ssd
Lenovo ThinkSystem storage options product page
https://lenovopress.com/lp0761-storage-options-for-thinksystem-servers
Western Digital Ultrastar SS530 SAS SSD datasheet
https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc- library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives /ultrastar-ssd-sas-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-ss530.pdf
Lenovo ServerProven
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven

Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

Security Key Lifecycle Manager
Drives

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