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IBM FlashSystem® is a portfolio of high-speed, all-flash and hybrid flash storage solutions designed to help streamline IT operations and support data modernization initiatives, while delivering performance and efficiency to meet your business needs.
1Through IBM Storage Assurance Perpetual, IBM guarantees that data can be moved between FlashSystem devices while always maintaining an active path to data from servers and applications using the data, when Storage Partitions are migrated as described in the IBM Storage FlashSystem documentation for the relevant Storage Virtualize release and FlashSystem.
Internal contract terms are found here (contract to be updated by 2/25): https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/internal/?ref=i126-9801-01-04-2024-zz-en
2Industry-standard QLC expects about 1,000 P/E (i.e.: write) cycles, https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/write-cycle, whereas FlashCore Module 4 drives, which are in the C200, achieve 5,500 P/E cycles prior to wear out, using internal testing developed using the JEDEC Standards for Retention.
3IBM sponsored report: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of IBM Storage Assurance ESG Report (Page 7) https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/10a99803f32fd7b3.
4Please see details and definition of maintenance in the maintenance contract found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?ref=Z126-8971-04-05-2023-us-en
5C200 configuration uses a 1:4:1 data reduction ratio. The 16TB HDD configuration is an IBM FS7300 with a 5U92 HDD expansion attached using 81 16TB industry standard HDD drives.
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