DATA SHEET
NVM EXPRESS™ COMPATIBLE PCIE SOLID-STATE DRIVES
Ultrastar® SN100 Series
PCIe SSDs for Application
Highlights
High Density
Acceleration
• Supports standard NVMe drivers
Offered in up to 3.2TB capacity in both form factors, the
Ultrastar SN100 Series delivers high storage density in a very
compact size. In fact, the SFF form factor in this product
family delivers the highest density amongst NVMe compliant
SFF devices in the industry today.
The HGST Ultrastar® SN100 Series offers unprecedented
performance acceleration for today’s most demanding
cloud, hyperscale and enterprise applications, allowing
them to scale to new heights. The HGST architecture has
been designed to tightly integrate different kinds of Flash
media, hardware and software to deliver memory-class
performance with storage-class capacity and persistence.
The Ultrastar SN100 Series comes in multiple form factors,
as a low-proꢀile HHꢁHL expansion card and as a highly-
serviceable SFF 2.5-inch drive.
• Up to 3.2TB capacity in both the HH-HL addꢀin card and
SFF 2.5ꢀinch drive form factors
• Supports the latest generation PCIe Gen 3.0 server
platforms
• UEFI boot support
• Advanced power management
• Enterpriseꢀgrade reliability: Flashꢀaware RAID, endꢀtoꢀ
end dataꢀpath protection, advanced ECC, secure erase,
power fail protection
Lower Capital and Operating
Cost
By combining high performance, high density, support
for the NVMe standard and trusted HGST reliability, less
infrastructure is required to meet the the demanding
requirements of enterprise and hyperscale data centers,
directly resulting in overall lower total cost of ownership.
NVMe™ Support Eases
Deployment and Management
To enable broad product interoperability and improve
ease of deployment, the Ultrastar SN100 Series supports
standard NVM Express (NVMe) drivers. NVMe is an
interface speciꢀication that was created to deliver the full
potential of non-volatile memory in PCIe-based solid-state
storage devices to meet the needs of enterprise and client
platforms. The NVMe standard allows the Ultrastar SN100
Series of products to effectively use the high speed PCIe
interconnect with a standard OS driver. As a result, NVMe
enables simpliꢀied conꢀiguration management and control in
enterprise environments.
Applications/Environments
HGST Quality and Service
HGST’s Ultrastar SN100 Series family extends the company’s
long-standing tradition of performance and reliability
leadership. A balanced combination of new and proven
technologies enables high reliability and availability to
customer data.
• Cloud, hyperscale, enterprise and high performance
computing
• Suitable for the most demanding scaleꢀout database
workloads
• Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online
Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• High Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Virtualized computing
• Space and/or power constrained environments
HGST drives are backed by an array of technical support
and services, which may include customer and integration
assistance. HGST is dedicated to providing a complete
portfolio of SSD/HDD solutions to satisfy today’s
monumental computing needs.
Leading Performance
The Ultrastar SN100 Series delivers consistent performance
across all application workloads over the lifecycle of the
product, even when the device is fully utilized, and provides
high performance for various workloads, whether it is
random, sequential or mixed I/O. By offering 310,000 mixed
random I/O performance, the Ultrastar SN100 Series will
allow OLTP applications to scale to new levels.
Ultrastar SN150 | 3200GB and 1600GB
Ultrastar SN100 | 3200GB, 1600GB and 800GB
MLC | HHꢁHL, 2.5” SFF | PCIe 3.0
Features & Beneꢀits
Performance
Flexibility
Low Latency
Capacity
Reliability
Feature/function
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3000MB/s / 1600MB/s sequential R/W
743k / 140k IOPS random R/W
310k IOPS on 70/30 mix R/W
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PCIe Gen 3.0
HH-HL and SFF form factors
< 20 μs write
latencies
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3200GB
1600GB
800GB
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0.44% AFR (2M hours MTBF)
Powerꢀsafe write processing
Endꢀtoꢀend dataꢀpath protection
Advanced ECC and global wearꢀleveling, T10 DIF support
Beneꢁit
Maximum performance delivers unprecendented
application throughput
Support for latest generation server platforms,
including SFFꢀcapable servers
DRAMꢀlike
performance
High capacity, all presented
as a single volume
Higher reliability increases return on investment
