There is Life After Upgrade application performance with SATA Value SAS and data center NVMe™ SSDs

SATA Performance 6 Gb/s Roadmap Ends at 6 Gb/s

3 Gb/s

1.5 Gb/s

SAS & NVMe/PCIe® Technology Longevity Serial Attached SCSI PCI Express® (SAS) 6.0 TODAY SAS - 5 TODAY 48 G 5.0

SAS - 4 24 G 4.0 16 GT/s

SAS - 3 12 Gb/s 3.0 8 GT/s

SAS - 2 2.0 6 Gb/s 5 GT/s

SAS - 1 1.0 3 Gb/s 2.5 GT/s *Performance per PCIe lane.

SAS and NVMe/PCIe interface roadmaps continue for years to come. A Better Life with Next Gen Solutions

Value SAS RM CD Data Center SSDs Enterprise SAS™ SSD Data Center NVMe™ SSD NVMe SSDs

Excellent Cost/Performance Priced to Replace SATA Compared to SATA

Single-Port 12Gb/s SAS Interface Single-Port NVMe Interface

CD5 Series (PCIe 3.0) Performance Sequential reads up to 3,140 MB/s RM5 Series Performance Random reads up to 550,000 IOPS Sequential reads up to 838 MB/s Random reads up to 150,000 IOPS CD6 Series (PCIe 4.0) Performance Sequential reads up to 6,200 MB/s Random reads up to 1,000,000 IOPS

Easy Replacement in When Ready to Deploy SAS-Enabled Servers NVMe SSDs Real World Application Bene ts of Value SAS and Data Center NVMe SSDs

Transactional Database Data Analytics With RM5 Series over SATA in a With RM5 Series over SATA in an Dell EMC PowerEdge™ MX server. HPE ProLiant™ DL 385 server.

40% 2.4x More Orders per Minute1 More Operations per Minute2

MongoDB® Analytics SQL Server Database

With CD5 Series over SATA in a With CD5 Series over SATA in an Dell EMC PowerEdge™ R840 server. HPE ProLiant™ DL385 server.

2.37x 3 57% More Operations per Minute More Transactions per Minute4

Principled Technologies report: Dell-EMC-PowerEdge-MX-transactional-database-1019-v5.pdf Principled Technologies report: RM5-Series-value-SAS-and-CD5-NVMe-mainstream-vs-SATA-data-analytics-1019.pdf Principled Technologies report: Dell-EMC-PowerEdge-R840-database-analytics-1019-v5.pdf Principled Technologies report: RM5-Series-value-SAS-CD5-NVMe-mainstream-vs-SATA-OLTP-0120.pdf

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For performance measurements, read and write speeds may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions and le size.