868930-001 HPE 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS M.2 SSD

HPE 868930-001 1.92TB SFF Read-Intensive SSD

Discover the exceptional performance and reliability of the HPE 868930-001 1.92TB Solid State Drive, engineered specifically for read-intensive applications in demanding enterprise environments. This SATA-based SSD combines HPE's rigorous quality standards with advanced flash memory technology to deliver consistent, high-performance storage solutions for your critical workloads.

Product Overview

The HPE 868930-001 represents a perfect balance of capacity, performance, and endurance for read-centric workloads. With its 1.92TB capacity in a compact 2.5-inch Small Form Factor, this drive offers an optimal storage solution for servers and storage arrays where space efficiency matters without compromising on performance or reliability.

Technical Deep Dive

Performance Characteristics

The HPE 868930-001 SSD is engineered to deliver exceptional performance for read-intensive applications. With its SATA-6Gbps interface, this drive offers maximum sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and write speeds up to 530MB/s, ensuring responsive performance for data retrieval operations. The random read performance reaches up to 98,000 IOPS, making it ideal for applications requiring rapid access to large datasets.

Endurance and Reliability

Built with enterprise-grade MLC NAND flash, this SSD offers a balanced approach to endurance and cost-effectiveness. With a specified workload rating of 1 drive write per day (DWPD) over its 5-year warranty period, the 868930-001 provides reliable performance for read-heavy applications while maintaining data integrity throughout its lifecycle.

Latency Optimization

The drive features consistently low latency, with typical read latency of less than 100 microseconds and write latency under 20 microseconds. This predictable performance profile ensures consistent application response times, which is critical for maintaining service level agreements in enterprise environments.

Flash Memory Technology

Multi-level Cell (MLC) NAND

The HPE 868930-001 utilizes Multi-level Cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, which stores two bits of data per memory cell. This technology strikes an optimal balance between performance, endurance, and cost – offering better performance and endurance than TLC (Triple-level Cell) drives while remaining more cost-effective than SLC (Single-level Cell) alternatives.

Wear Leveling Technology

Advanced wear leveling algorithms distribute write operations evenly across all available memory cells, preventing premature wear on specific sectors of the drive. This sophisticated management extends the drive's operational lifespan and maintains consistent performance throughout its warranty period.

Bad Block Management

The drive incorporates intelligent bad block management with spare area allocation, ensuring that defective memory blocks are automatically mapped out and replaced with reserved good blocks. This background process occurs transparently to the host system, maintaining data integrity without performance degradation.

Form Factor and Physical Design

2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF)

The 2.5-inch Small Form Factor design allows for high storage density in space-constrained environments. This compact form factor enables deployment in various HPE server platforms and storage enclosures, maximizing storage capacity per rack unit while maintaining compatibility with existing infrastructure.

Smart Carrier Design

The integrated Smart Carrier provides secure mounting and easy hot-swap capability in compatible HPE systems. This carrier design includes visual indicators for drive status and activity, simplifying drive management and troubleshooting in data center environments. The tool-less installation feature reduces maintenance time and minimizes the risk of installation errors.

Thermal Management

Engineered with enterprise thermal characteristics in mind, the drive operates within a wide temperature range of 0°C to 70°C. The aluminum casing provides effective heat dissipation, while power management features help maintain optimal operating temperatures even during sustained workloads.

Enterprise Features and Capabilities

Digitally Signed Firmware

The HPE 868930-001 implements digitally signed firmware to prevent unauthorized firmware modifications and protect against malicious code execution. This security feature ensures that only HPE-validated firmware can be installed on the drive, maintaining system integrity and protecting against firmware-based attacks.

Firmware Validation Process

During each boot sequence, the drive verifies the digital signature of its firmware using cryptographic techniques. If the signature validation fails, the drive will not operate, preventing potentially compromised firmware from running and protecting the storage subsystem from unauthorized access or manipulation.

Secure Firmware Updates

Firmware updates are delivered through HPE's validated channels with proper digital signatures. This secure update process prevents the installation of unauthorized or malicious firmware, ensuring that drive functionality and security features remain intact throughout the product lifecycle.

S.M.A.R.T. Support

The drive supports the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system, providing early warning of potential drive failures. This proactive monitoring capability allows administrators to plan maintenance activities and replace drives before catastrophic failure occurs, minimizing downtime and data loss risks.

Enhanced S.M.A.R.T. Attributes

Beyond basic S.M.A.R.T. implementation, HPE has extended the monitoring capabilities with vendor-specific attributes that provide deeper insight into drive health, including NAND wear level, bad block count, and temperature history. These enhanced metrics enable more accurate predictive failure analysis.

Power Loss Protection

While designed as a read-intensive drive, the 868930-001 incorporates data protection mechanisms to safeguard against data corruption during unexpected power loss. The drive utilizes power hold-up circuits and firmware-based data flushing to ensure that data in transit is properly committed to non-volatile storage.

Compatibility and Integration

HPE Platform Compatibility

The HPE 868930-001 is validated for use across a wide range of HPE server and storage platforms, including ProLiant Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10 servers, as well as HPE StorageWorks and HPE MSA systems. This broad compatibility ensures seamless integration into existing HPE infrastructure.

HPE Smart Array Controllers

When used with HPE Smart Array controllers, the drive benefits from enhanced management capabilities through HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and HPE OneView. These integration points provide centralized management, monitoring, and reporting for the storage subsystem.

UEFI and Legacy BIOS Support

The drive supports both UEFI and legacy BIOS system configurations, ensuring compatibility with older server platforms while taking full advantage of modern UEFI-based systems. This flexibility simplifies technology refresh cycles and mixed-environment deployments.

Operating System Support

The HPE 868930-001 is compatible with a wide range of enterprise operating systems, including Windows Server, Linux distributions (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu), VMware ESXi, and other virtualization platforms. HPE provides device drivers and management utilities for supported operating systems through the HPE Support Center.

Use Cases and Applications

Read-Intensive Workloads

This SSD is specifically optimized for read-intensive applications where the majority of storage operations involve reading rather than writing data. The endurance characteristics and performance profile make it ideal for these scenarios while providing cost-effective storage capacity.

Content Delivery Networks

With high sequential read performance and consistent low latency, the 868930-001 excels in content delivery network applications where rapid access to static content is critical. The drive can efficiently serve web content, video streams, and software downloads to multiple concurrent users.

Data Warehousing and Analytics

For data warehouse environments where large datasets are frequently queried but updated less frequently, this SSD provides the performance needed for complex analytical queries while offering sufficient endurance for periodic data refreshes and ETL operations.

Virtualization Environments

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

In VDI implementations, the drive can efficiently store operating system images and application binaries that are read repeatedly by multiple virtual desktop instances. The high random read performance ensures responsive user experiences during boot storms and application launches.

Server Virtualization

For hypervisor hosts, the SSD can store virtual machine templates, ISO images, and other static content that benefits from fast read access. When configured in appropriate RAID groups, these drives can support numerous virtual machines with demanding storage requirements.

Database Applications

Read-Only Database Replicas

The drive is well-suited for housing read-only database replicas used for reporting and analytics. By offloading read operations to dedicated replicas, production databases can maintain higher transaction throughput while still supporting business intelligence workloads.

Database Index Storage

For databases with large indexes that are frequently accessed but updated less often, storing these structures on the 868930-001 can significantly improve query performance without the cost premium of write-optimized SSDs.

Environmental Specifications

Power Consumption

The drive is designed for energy efficiency with typical active power consumption of 3.5W during read operations and 4.5W during write operations. Idle power consumption drops to approximately 1.5W, contributing to lower overall power usage in data center environments.

Operating Conditions

The HPE 868930-001 operates within a temperature range of 0°C to 70°C and can withstand non-operating storage temperatures from -40°C to 85°C. The drive can operate at altitudes up to 3,000 meters and withstand shock and vibration levels typical of enterprise server environments.