Dell 1.6TB 2.5-inch SAS 12Gbps SSD — 3TCV6

Here is a 1.6TB SSD for 2.5-inch SAS bays, identified by Dell part number 3TCV6 (Samsung manufactured), maker model MZ-ILT1T6C. It connects at 12Gbps.

As a Dell-labelled drive it carries Dell firmware, matching what PowerEdge servers and PowerVault arrays are set up to use. A spare of the same model cuts the time an array spends degraded when a drive fails. Dell-labelled drives are intended for PowerEdge servers and PowerVault arrays with 2.5-inch SAS bays. SAS drives need a SAS controller or host bus adapter; a 12Gbps drive also works on a 6Gbps SAS controller at the lower speed. Its mixed use rating points it at workloads with a mix of reads and writes. It uses 512e sectors (4K physical, 512-byte emulated), which current RAID controllers and operating systems handle natively. Flash drives like this suit boot volumes, virtual machine datastores and database logs, where access time matters more than raw capacity. After a swap the controller rebuilds the data onto the new drive; the bigger the drive, the longer that takes. Check 3TCV6 against the service configuration of your Dell system before ordering.

It is supplied certified refurbished: inspected, bench-tested and data-wiped in Johannesburg before release.