I found this in the System Builder:
#1909 69 GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive
The 69 GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive (SSD) provides 69.7 GB of very high
performance storage, much faster than spinning disk drives with their
delays due to positioning the disk arm and waiting for the spinning disk
to rotate under the arm. SSD also provide lower power utilization than
spinning or hard disk drives (HDD). The drive is formatted to 69.7 GB
and can be used by AIX, Linux (#1890), and IBM i (#1909). Both are
identical drives, but have different feature codes to help the IBM
configuration tools understand how the SSD is used.
Connector: Standard SAS dual port
3 Gbps SAS device (300 MBps)
528 bytes sectors Power System
Attributes required: One SFF SAS drive bay slot in the 8203-E4A or
8204-E8A CEC
OS level required: IBM i V6.1 or later
Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both
CSU: Yes
Return parts MES: No
Note: Only supported in CEC #8346. Not supported in #5802.
How do you tell if your CEC is an #8346 or a #5802? I went through our
Upgrade Configuration Summary line by line and there are a lot of
numbers but neither of those!
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Massiello - ML [mailto:pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: SSDs for POWER6 550
Scott,
This machine is certainly capable of running SSDs at 6.1 or 7.1.
Now, there are many different SSDs that it can be installed, but based
upon what you already have was the BP saying that he couldn't add them
to the current configuration, and that he might need to add a draw?
That can be the case. You don't want to mix SSD drives and Hard drives
on the same disk controller.
Pete
Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ingvaldson, Scott
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:40 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SSDs for POWER6 550
We have a Power 6 550 (8204-E8A) with a 57B7/57B8 storage controller.
It was my understanding that when we purchased this model it was capable
of running SSDs but our BP is now telling me that it is not. Is this
really that case?
All six slots in the CEC are available for use.
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
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