Chapter 1: Introduction; Overview; Features - Seagate Nytro XP6302 Series User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1

Overview

This manual describes the functional, mechanical, and interface specifications for the Seagate® Nytro® XP6302 Series
Flash Accelerator Cards. The Nytro XP6302 card is a block storage device. The card presents itself to the operating
system through a Fusion-MPT™ interface as a single drive that requires minimal user configuration. You can use this
card for either nonpersistent (for example, cache) or persistent (for example, database files) data.
The Nytro XP6302 card has a PCI Express® (PCIe®) interface that complies with the PCI Express Specification 3.0. The
functionality of the Nytro XP6302 card comes from a SAS2308 I/O controller with Seagate Nytro firmware that runs on
the internal processor.
The following table shows the characteristics of the Nytro XP6302 card models:
Table 1 Seagate Nytro XP6302 Card Characteristics Summary
Device Name Model Name
Nytro XP6302 XP6302-8B4096 ST3500KN0012
Nytro XP6302 XP6302-8B2048 ST1750KN0012
Nytro XP6302 XP6302-8B1536 ST1300KN0012
1.2

Features

This section lists the features of the Nytro XP6302 cards.
Proven enterprise firmware stack
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Flash ROM for storing the BIOS and firmware
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Best-in-class read and write performance
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Average latency of less than 200
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Low host burden – No static CPU and memory overhead
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Support for Windows®, Linux®, VMware®, and FreeBSD® operating systems
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Bootable
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PCIe 3.0 x8
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Half height and half length
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PCIe standard low-profile bracket attached to card (full-height bracket ships in the box)
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LEDs for drive life and drive status
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RAISE™ – High reliability with block-level, page-level, and die-level failure protection
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Seagate Nytro XP6302 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide, Rev. E
Part Number Connector
X8 PCIe 3.0
X8 PCIe 3.0
X8 PCIe 3.0
s
μ
Flash
Capacity NAND Type
Controller
4 TB SF2582 Consumer
Multi-Level Cell
2 TB SF2582 Enterprise
Multi-Level Cell
1.5 TB SF2582
Card Style
Half Height, Half
Length (HHHL)
(cMLC)
HHHL
(eMLC)
eMLC HHHL
Overview
Controller
SAS2308
SAS2308
SAS2308
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