Lenovo Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry Sata Ssd Owner's Manual

Lenovo Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSD

Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSD
Product Guide (withdrawn product)
The S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA solid-state drives (SSDs) for Lenovo servers use Intel 3D NAND flash memory technology with a SATA 6Gbps interface to provide an affordable solution with industry leading performance. Compared with the Intel S3510 series, these new drives offer significantly improved endurance and lower power consumption. The S3520 SSDs are optimized for read-intensive applications such as boot, web servers, lower data rate operational databases and analytics.
The S3520 is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSD in a 2.5-inch hot-swap form factor
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By combining the latest MLC NAND flash memory technology with Intel’s latest controller technology, the design of the S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSDs delivers consistent performance, reduced power consumption, and end-to-end data protection, as well as being optimized for IOPS/watt and cost/IOPS. Rigorous testing of S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSDs by Lenovo through the ServerProven program assures 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 ThinkSystem part numbers and feature codes.
Withdrawn: All S3520 drive options are now withdrawn from marketing

Table. ThinkSystem ordering information

The following table lists the System x part numbers and feature codes.
Table 1. System x ordering information

The following table lists the ThinkServer part numbers.
Table 2. ThinkServer ordering information

The part numbers include the following items:

• One SSD (hot-swap drives have a hot-swap tray attached to the drive)
• Support flyer for SSDs
• Warranty flyer and Important Notices document

Features

The Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSDs have the following features:

• Industry standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch form factors
• Cost-effective Intel 3D Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash memory
• Endurance of 1.0 drive writes per day (DWPD) for 5 years, using Intel Standard Endurance Technology (SET).
• 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 savings, with 3.5 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

SSDs have a huge but finite number of program/erase (P/E) cycles, which affect how long they can perform write operations and thus their life expectancy. Enterprise Entry SSDs typically have a better cost per read IOPS ratio but lower endurance and performance compared to Enterprise Performance SSDs. 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 total bytes written (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. However, 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 S3520 480 GB drive has an endurance of 945 TB of total bytes written (TBW). This means that for full operation over five years, write workload must be limited to no more than 518 GB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 1.1 full drive writes per day (DWPD). For the device to last three years, the drive write workload must be limited to no more than 863 GB of writes per day, which is equivalent to 1.8 full drive writes per day.

Technical specifications

The following table presents technical specifications for the Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSDs.
Table 3. Technical specifications

Server support

ThinkSystem
The following table lists the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible:
Table. ThinkSystem server support

Server support – System x
The following tables list the System x servers that are compatible.
Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors
Table 4. Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors

Support for System x and dense servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors Table 5. Support for servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors

Support for servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors
Table 6. Support for servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors

The following tables list the ThinkServer systems that are compatible. Support for ThinkServer systems with E5 v4 or E3 v6 processors

Support for sd350: The drives supported with the sd350 are listed in System x table.
Table 7. Support for ThinkServer Generation 5 servers with E5 v4 or E3 v6 processors

Support for ThinkServer systems with E5 v3 and E3 v5 processors
Table 8. Support for ThinkServer systems with E5 v3 and E3 v5 processors

Server support – Flex System
The following table lists the compatibility information for Flex System servers.
Table 9. Support for Flex System servers

Storage controller support

The S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSDs require a supported disk controller. The following table lists the controllers and the servers that support those controllers.
ThinkSystem controllers and servers are listed in the following table.
Table 10. ThinkSystem server support

System x, NeXtScale and Flex System controllers and servers are listed in the following table.
Table 11. Controllers for supported servers

The following table list the ThinkServer controllers that support these solid-state drives installed in a supported server.
Table 12. Supported controllers – ThinkServer

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 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• 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 11 for AMD64/EM64T
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12
• VMware vSphere 5.1 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 6.5 (ESXi)

Note: The controllers that support the SSDs do not necessarily support all the operating systems listed. Check ServerProven for the latest operating system compatibility for these controllers.
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/

Warranty

The Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry 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 servers’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 drives have the following physical specifications (approximate, without the tray):

• Height: 7 mm (0.3 in.)
• Width: 70 mm (2.8 in.)
• Depth: 100 mm (4.0 in.)
• Weight: 66 g (0.15 lb)

Shipping dimensions and weight – 2.5-inch drives (approximate, including the tray):

• 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, including the tray):

• 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 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 S3520 Enterprise Entry 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

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

• Lenovo ThinkSystem storage options product web page
  https://lenovopress.com/lp0761-storage-options-for-thinksystem-servers
• Lenovo System x storage options product web page
  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/servers/server-options/system-x-options/server-storage/c/system-x-storage
• Intel SSD Data Center S3520 Series product page
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-dc-s3520-series.html
• ServerProven for SSDs
  http://static.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/xseries/storage/hssdmatrix.shtml
• Lenovo RAID Introduction
  https://lenovopress.com/lp0578-lenovo-raid-introduction
• Lenovo RAID Management Tools and Resources
  https://lenovopress.com/lp0579-lenovo-raid-management-tools-and-resources
• ServeRAID Adapter Quick Reference
  http://lenovopress.com/tips0054

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

• Drives

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References

• Lenovo ServerProven Compatibility
• SSD D3 Series
• Welcome | ServerProven
• Lenovo RAID Introduction > Lenovo Press
• Lenovo RAID Management Tools and Resources (withdrawn product) > Lenovo Press
• Storage Options for ThinkSystem Servers > Lenovo Press
• Intel S3520 Enterprise Entry SATA SSD Product Guide (withdrawn product) > Lenovo Press
• Drives > Lenovo Press
• Copyright and Trademark Information | Lenovo US | Lenovo US